Senior Robotics Planning Engineer

Required

• 3+ years of professional (non-internship) software development experience.
• Strong programming skills in at least one modern language (Python, C++, Java, or C#); experience with object-oriented design and building maintainable systems.
• Proven robotics engineering experience with evidence of system-level ownership (e.g., integration, debugging, performance tuning, field support, or deployments).
• Ability to design and debug software systems with strong diagnostics (structured logging/metrics, fault isolation, testability) that scale beyond a single vehicle.
• Working knowledge of core robotics concepts and math (e.g., state estimation/Kalman filtering, localization, planning, controls).
• Comfort operating in ambiguity—able to define scope, interfaces, milestones, and success criteria to drive a problem to completion.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain technical trade-offs to non-technical partners.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects through planning, execution, and deployment.
• Experience deploying autonomy/robotics systems in the field (on-call or deployment rotations, safety-critical troubleshooting, or customer-site support).
• Experience with any of: sensor fusion, safety systems, camera pipelines, ML for perception, vehicle interfaces (CAN), calibration workflows.
• Familiarity with robotics tooling and infrastructure (Linux, Git, CI/CD, simulation/test harnesses).