Design and develop motion planning algorithms for robotics, enhance safety and speed of robots, collaborate on systems architecture, and mentor junior engineers.
About this role:
Pickle is on the hunt for a dynamic and driven Senior Motion Planning Software Engineer to revolutionize the future of warehouse automation. You will design and develop algorithms that enable our manipulator arms to swiftly and safely manipulate and unload packages. If you thrive on solving real-world robotics problems in a collaborative, fast-paced startup environment, we’d love to hear from you.
What You’ll Accomplish:
- Design, implement, and optimize motion planning algorithms for an autonomous robotic manipulator.
- Research and develop cutting edge techniques to enhance the safety and speed of our robot.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate your contributions into the broader hardware and software system.
- Iterate, test, and tune solutions to improve performance and reliability of the mobile manipulation system, both in simulation and on a real robotic system.
- Play a key role in designing and contributing to the architecture of scalable software systems that support the deployment of multiple robots in diverse and dynamic environments.
- Act as a mentor to other software engineers to improve the team’s overall capabilities in planning and manipulation.
Who You Are:
- A software engineer with a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Mechatronics or similar field and at least 3-5 years of industrial experience or a Masters Degree or higher with relevant mix of academic and industrial experience in working with autonomous robots.
- Experienced with motion planning for robotic manipulators, with a strong understanding of dynamics.
- Experience with computational geometry and fast collision checking is a plus.
- Experienced in working with complex algorithms and capable of optimizing for performance and reliability.
- Proficient in Python.
- Experience in other relevant languages is a plus.
- Collaborative and communicative, focusing discussions on problem solving ideas and experiments to drive product innovation.
- Detail-oriented, but with a system level mindset. Capable of debugging complex problems while maintaining system integrity.
- Willing to work in-office from our Cambridge, MA location at least three days per week.
- Adaptable and eager to learn, staying up to date with the latest advancements in robotics and motion planning.
About Pickle Robot
Pickle Robot is a pioneer in Physical AI for supply chain applications. Today Pickle robots autonomously unload trucks, trailers, and import containers at human-scale or better performance. The alternative is manual work that is difficult, dirty, sometimes dangerous, and increasingly hard to staff at distribution centers around the globe. Pickle Robot is laser focused on automating truck unloading using generative AI, machine learning, computer vision, advanced sensors, and industrial robotics to deliver engineered products customers rely on. Pickle Robot Unload Systems work alongside people on loading docks to make the work safer, faster, and more efficient. Pickle robots are physical AI that unload trucks.
Pickle provides best-in-class benefits including health, dental, & vision insurance; unlimited vacation, along with all federal and state holidays; 401K contributions of 5% your salary, travel supplies, and other items to make your working life more fun, comfortable, and productive.
Top Skills
Computer Vision
Generative Ai
Industrial Robotics
Machine Learning
Python
Pickle Robot Company Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Office
Cambridge, MA, United States, 02139
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