Senior Motion Planning and Navigation Engineer

Figure is on a mission to develop and deploy general purpose humanoid robots for corporate tasks targeting labor shortages and jobs that are undesirable or unsafe. We are looking for passionate and motivated superstars to grow our world-class team. We are based in Sunnyvale, CA and require 5 days/week in-office collaboration. It’s time to build.

Figure’s vision is to deploy autonomous humanoids at a global scale. Our AI team is looking for Motion Planning and Navigation Engineers to empower Figure humanoid robots with the ability to avoid getting stuck while moving throughout a world designed for humans.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, test, and deploy motion planning and navigation algorithms for humanoid robots. These will include generating body paths, footsteps and handholds, collision-free arm trajectories, and grasps.
• Assist in planning algorithms for high-level decision making.
• Develop and use modern software engineering techniques to implement high quality, well-tested software that will be deployed to the real world.Evaluate potential motion planning and navigation solutions and make design trade offs and decisions based on robot requirements.
• Collaborate with other Figure team members to develop and implement a full autonomy stack that behaves safely under uncertainty. 
• Work with the Figure Integration and Testing team to continuously evaluate and improve your motion planning and navigation software.

Required Qualifications:

• Have experience implementing, testing, and deploying motion planning and navigation solutions in C++ and/or Python on real robots.
• Understand both traditional and machine learning approaches to motion planning and navigation, and the tradeoffs between various techniques.
• Be capable of quickly writing massive amounts of high quality and well-tested motion planning and navigation software. 
• Possess both a theoretical understanding and have practical experience with motion planning and navigation algorithms.
• Have a deep knowledge of state of the art techniques, data structures, and software tools.
• Thrive in a high-paced environment, where solutions are often unclear and require exploration.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Passionate about building humanoid robots.
• Experience with deploying real world motion planning and navigation solutions for commercial applications.
• Publication record of developing and deploying motion planning and navigation solutions.
• Experience leading a team of developers.