Robotics Software - Planning & Controls Engineer

Gritt https://gritt.ai/ is developing physical AI to automate the construction of large-scale infrastructure around the globe. Gritt’s systems are already deployed commercially in difficult outdoor environments, and are helping to build critical energy infrastructure. The founding team https://www.gritt.ai/team comprises experts in robotics and AI from Carnegie Mellon, Stanford and MIT. Gritt is a Series A company backed by marquee VCs.

Role: Robotics Software - Planning & Controls

Location: SF Bay Area (in-person)

About the role

We’re looking for an experienced Planning & Controls Engineer to join our team. As an early member, you will play a pivotal role in building and shaping the AI capabilities of our robots. You will work on challenging planning/control problems around manipulation and navigation in dynamic outdoor environments. You'll need to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment where you'll wear multiple hats and have a direct impact on our product's evolution. Ideally, you have a proven track record of developing and deploying planning/control systems in production, and you're passionate about pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotics with AI.

What you’ll get to work on

• Develop and deploy state-of-the-art planning and control techniques for challenging manipulation and navigation problems.

• Help drive our technical approach, with particular focus on real-world deployments.

• Research and develop techniques around generating real-time, safe, efficient trajectories for multiple embodiments like robot manipulators and mobile robots.

• Develop scalable planning representations for classical and learned techniques.

• Leverage GPUs to generate and evaluate trajectories at scale.

• Enable real-time, closed-loop control leveraging classical algorithms and ML.

• Develop simulation techniques and metrics to benchmark and evaluate performance.

• Collaborate with other teams in the company.

What we look for

• M.S/Ph.D degree in robotics, vision, computer science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering or other engineering disciplines (or equivalent experience).

• 4+ years of hands-on experience developing planning/control solutions for robotics applications like manipulation and navigation.

• Experience working on one or more of trajectory generation, optimization, sampling, cost/reward shaping and control.

• Experience working with robotics simulation infrastructure (e.g. Isaac Sim, Gazebo).

• Proficient with C++ and comfortable with Python.

• Should be comfortable taking ownership of tasks with light supervision.

• Must have excellent problem-solving skills.

• Legally authorized to work in the United States.