Maven Robotics

Motion Planning and Controls Engineer

San Fransisco Bay Area, California USA

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 169 days ago

PythonC++AlgorithmsSystems EngineeringRobotics

About the role

Maven Robotics is building the world's leading general-purpose AI robots.
We are currently operating in stealth and are growing the world's best team in AI robotics. We are looking for self-starters that are the world's best in their field, who can innovate from a deep understanding of the fundamentals, and who share our values of unwavering truth seeking and integrity, humility, curiosity, and relentless determination.

Have an unrelenting drive to achieve exceptional motion quality via continual test, measurement, analysis, and improvement.
Maven Robotics is building the world's leading general-purpose AI robots.

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.
Must-have:
MS or PhD in engineering, mathematics, computer science or a related discipline.
Enthusiasm for working in a fast paced startup environment and eagerness to support the team on a variety of topics.
Nice-to-have:
Familiarity with modern approaches to robotic manipulation, including state-of-the-art reinforcement learning (RL) and imitation learning (IL) approaches and their application to real-world robots.

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.

We are currently operating in stealth and are growing the world's best team in AI robotics.
We are looking for self-starters that are the world's best in their field, who can innovate from a deep understanding of the fundamentals, and who share our values of unwavering truth seeking and integrity, humility, curiosity, and relentless determination.
We are looking to recruit an exceptional Motion Planning & Controls Engineer to develop the software that brings our robot hardware to life, implementing planning and control algorithms that provide purposeful, performant, safe, reliable, and beautiful coordinated motion.

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