Senior Robotics Software Engineer: Manipulation & Planning

General Motors Company; United States; Remote; USD 129,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Retirement savings plan

Paid vacation & holidays

Tuition assistance programs

Employee assistance program

GM vehicle discounts

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to advance manipulation planning and control libraries for autonomous arms. You will work on collision-free planning, trajectory optimization, and time parameterization, leveraging C++, Python, and ROS 2 on FANUC arms and mobile manipulators.

You will build the execution layer, monitor trajectory tracking, and handle deviations. Collaboration with controls and perception teams across time zones is essential for success.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional engineering experience with 2+ years in motion planning/manipulation.
• Experience deploying manipulation planning on physical arms in production or field settings.
• Education: MS degree or higher in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Build and own manipulation planning capability: collision-free planning, trajectory optimization, time parameterization.
• Implement and tune planners for target applications with cycle-time as a first-class requirement.
• Construct collision environment representations from perception output and static models.
• Develop execution layer to monitor trajectory tracking and react to deviation or contact.
• Define interfaces between perception, planning, and control and improve system as it grows.

Skills

C++

Python

ROS 2

Motion planning

Education

MS in Robotics

MS in Computer Science

Tools

MoveIt

OMPL

TrajOpt

Drake

ROS

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to advance manipulation planning and control libraries for autonomous arms. You will work on collision-free planning, trajectory optimization, and time parameterization, leveraging C++, Python, and ROS 2 on FANUC arms and mobile manipulators.

You will build the execution layer, monitor trajectory tracking, and handle deviations. Collaboration with controls and perception teams across time zones is essential for success.