Senior Planning Research Scientist
Venti Technologies5 months ago
Singapore, SingaporeSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain high-performance route-planning and motion-planning modules in modern C++.
- Profile and optimize algorithms for runtime, memory usage, and latency under real-time constraints.
- Integrate planning modules with perception, prediction, localization, and control systems.
- Simulate and validate planning algorithms in simulation environments and real-world autonomous platforms.
- Debug complex systems, analyze logs and telemetry, and support deployment of planning modules.
- Lead technical projects, share system-design practices, and mentor junior developers.
Requirements
- Master’s or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong C++ proficiency and understanding of object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, and real-time software design.
- Knowledge of graph search, sampling-based methods, optimization-based methods, and decision-making frameworks such as FSMs and behavior trees.
- Proven ability to optimize code for performance and resource constraints in real-time environments.
- Hands-on experience developing large-scale robotic or autonomous systems.
- Proficiency with Linux, ROS or ROS2, Git, CMake or Bazel, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience leading technical projects, mentoring engineers, and contributing to organizational growth.
- Understanding of how planning interacts with perception, localization, and control, including system-level trade-offs.
- Ability to collaborate across disciplines and translate algorithmic concepts into software components.
Benefits
- World-class benefits.
- Flexible working arrangements.
- International working environment.
- Salary is commensurate with experience.
About Venti Technologies
Venti Technologies builds autonomous driving systems and fleet operations software for logistics vehicles in seaports, airports, warehouses, and factories. The privately held company, founded in 2018 and headquartered in the Boston area, deploys its systems at industrial sites in Asia and integrates with existing terminal workflows. Venti sells and supports end‑to‑end autonomy solutions for yard tractors and related vehicles, and raised a Series A in 2023.