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++ for real-time autonomous driving.
- Profile and optimize planning algorithms for runtime efficiency, memory usage, and latency.
- Integrate planning systems with perception, prediction, and control teams across the autonomy pipeline.
- Simulate, test, and validate planning algorithms in simulation and on real-world autonomous platforms.
- Debug multi-module systems, analyze logs and telemetry, and deploy planning modules to simulated and real-world environments.
- Lead technical projects, mentor engineers, share system-design practices, and collaborate across disciplines.
Requirements
- Ph.D. or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong proficiency in C++ and understanding of object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, and real-time software design.
- Strong foundation in graph search, sampling-based methods, optimization-based methods, and decision-making frameworks such as FSMs and behavior trees.
- Proven ability to optimize software for performance and resource constraints in real-time environments.
- Hands-on experience developing large-scale robotic or autonomous systems.
- Proficiency with Linux, ROS/ROS2, Git, CMake/Bazel, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience leading technical projects, mentoring engineers, and contributing to organizational growth.
- Understanding of planning interactions with perception, localization, and control, including system-level trade-offs.
- Effective communication and cross-disciplinary collaboration skills.
Benefits
- World-class benefits and a strong international working environment.
- Flexible working arrangements.
- Salary is commensurate with experience.
- The position is based in Singapore.
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.