Maven Robotics
Motion Planning & Controls Engineer
Santa Clara, CA
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About the role
- As a Motion Planning & Controls Engineer at Maven Robotics, you will develop the software that brings our robots to life, designing and implementing advanced planning and control algorithms that enable precise, efficient, safe, and reliable coordinated motion.
Responsibilities
- Have an unrelenting drive to achieve exceptional motion quality via continual test, measurement, analysis, and improvement
- Enthusiasm for working in a fast paced startup environment and eagerness to support the team on a variety of topics
- Maven Robotics designs, builds, and deploys intelligent robotics for logistics and manufacturing.
- Maven is building the first general-purpose robotics system for industrial work.
- The robots are designed from first principles for complex physical environments and rigorous commercial standards.
- They master real tasks that deliver immediate impact, industrial-grade reliability, and intelligence that compounds at scale.
Requirements
- Experience in optimization-based motion planning and control algorithms such as Model Predictive Control
- Experience in control, estimation, modeling, and analysis of complex multi-degree-of-freedom electromechanical systems, including forward/inverse kinematics, forward/inverse dynamics, and task/joint space control
- Practical experience with motor servo control (position/velocity/torque control) architectures and tuning
- Proficiency in Python and C++ programming, using up-to-date software development practices and tooling
- Self-starter attitude with strong ability to identify problems, prioritize them, then plan and execute working solutions
- Utilize deep expertise in and intuition for complex, high degree-of-freedom electromechanical systems
Nice to have
- Familiarity with ground vehicle localization, mapping, and state estimation techniques (e.g. SLAM, Kalman filtering)
- Familiarity with robotic simulation software frameworks/environments
- Knowledge of brushless motor current control (e.g. field-oriented control)
- Familiarity with functional safety (FuSa) concepts
Company info
- What We're Looking For
- Our mission is to activate autonomous labor at scale and build toward infinitely elastic industrial capacity.
- At Maven, we build around the realities of industrial work.
Equal opportunity
- Maven Robotics is an equal opportunity employer.
- We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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