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Base Salary
$141k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain software development practices supporting high-quality code, efficient testing, and timely releases.
- Design, implement, and optimize algorithms for robot task and motion planning, including symbolic planning, kinematics, collision detection, optimization, search, and constraint satisfaction.
- Integrate and test computer vision software for robustness and real-world performance.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate software with other products and contribute to robotics software solutions.
- Document code, algorithms, user manuals, and procedures.
- Stay current with advances in robot planning algorithms and technologies and contribute new ideas.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field and 5+ years of professional experience.
- Proficiency in C++ and Python; experience with C# and TypeScript is preferred.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
- Understanding of industrial robotics, including manipulator kinematics and dynamics, trajectory generation, and communications protocols.
- Expertise with search algorithms, optimization methods, and constraint satisfaction.
- Experience with robotic planning and manipulation packages such as MoveIt and ROS.
- Knowledge of unit testing, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s or Ph.D. with 3+ years of professional experience, OpenCV or PCL experience, generative AI exploration in robotics, and robotics publications or open-source contributions.
- Ability to lawfully access information and technology subject to U.S. export controls.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and cross-functional teamwork skills.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement.
- Competitive salary with equity plan and discretionary results-based incentive bonus opportunities.
- Paid vacation, sick time, company holidays, and a year-end shutdown.
- Paid parental leave.
- HMO and Premium PPO health benefits, company-sponsored life insurance, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Professional learning and development reimbursement opportunities.
Tech Stack
Categories
Robotics
About Divergent
Divergent designs, manufactures, and assembles structures and systems using its DAPS software-driven, additive manufacturing and automation platform. The privately held company, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Torrance, California, operates multiple adaptive factories and offers production programs and Tier 1 supply to global automotive OEMs while supporting U.S. aerospace and defense companies. Its work targets complex, lightweight, production-ready solutions across critical industrial sectors.