Robot Autonomy Engineer
Maven Robotics4 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Own task, behavior, path, and trajectory planning across the autonomy stack.
- Design long-horizon behavior architectures with retry, recovery, failure detection, and operator handoff.
- Develop classical task planning for goal reasoning, precedence, task allocation, and planning under uncertainty.
- Plan and coordinate multiple robots in shared industrial workspaces, including separation, reservation, deconfliction, and deadlock-free repositioning.
- Integrate LLM and VLM reasoning for task decomposition, subtask grounding, and language-conditioned goals with safe verification and fallback mechanisms.
- Define interfaces and guarantees between learned policies and classical planning.
- Collaborate with perception, intelligence, controls, simulation, and platform software teams on functional architectures.
- Evaluate autonomy using cycle time, success rate, intervention rate, simulation, recorded-log replay, regression testing, and real-robot testing.
Requirements
- A required MS or PhD in robotics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, or a related discipline.
- Real-world experience with classical motion planning carried onto hardware, including search-based, sampling-based, or optimization-based approaches.
- Real-world experience with behavior planning architectures such as finite state machines or behavior trees for long-horizon tasks, including failure recovery.
- Familiarity with classical AI planning such as STRIPS, PDDL, or HTN, or decision-theoretic planning such as MDP or POMDP.
- Proficiency in Python and C++.
- Ability to identify problems, prioritize work, and execute practical solutions independently.
- Preferred experience fine-tuning and integrating LLMs or VLMs for executable task planning.
- Preferred experience with fleet-scale multi-robot coordination, mobile manipulation, ROS 2, VDA5050, Drake, OMPL, or MoveIt.
- Preferred experience evaluating planners in simulation and against replayed field logs, carrying autonomy from demo to sustained field operation, and applying functional safety concepts.
About Maven Robotics
Maven Robotics is building the world’s leading general-purpose AI robots.