Maven Robotics
Robot Autonomy Engineer
Santa Clara, CA
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About the role
- As a Robot Autonomy Engineer at Maven Robotics, you will build the decision-making stack that enables robots to translate goals into coordinated, reliable actions in real-world industrial environments.
- You'll develop systems that determine what robots should do, when and in what sequence, while ensuring multiple robots can operate efficiently and safely in shared workspaces.
Responsibilities
- Own the autonomy stack above the controller - task planning, behavior planning, path planning and trajectory planning - from the moment work arrives to the trajectories handed off to motion control
- Design the behavior architectures that structure long-horizon manipulation and navigation tasks, and that degrade into retry, recovery and operator handoff rather than into a stall
- Familiarity with task planning in the classical AI planning sense (STRIPS, PDDL, HTN) or decision-theoretic planning (MDP, POMDP), and the judgment to know when that machinery earns its complexity against a simpler reactive design
Requirements
- Real-world experience in behavior planning: finite state machines, behavior trees or comparable behavior architectures for long-horizon tasks, including failure detection and recovery
- 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
Nice to have
- Practical experience fine-tuning and integrating LLMs or VLMs for task planning, including grounding model output in executable, verifiable plans
- Experience with mobile manipulation - coordinating a mobile base and one or more arms toward a single task
- Familiarity with ROS 2, and with fleet interface standards such as VDA5050
- Familiarity with planning and kinematics libraries such as Drake, OMPL or MoveIt
- Experience evaluating planners in simulation and against replayed field logs, and the regression testing that keeps a planner honest as it changes
- A track record of carrying autonomy from working demo to sustained field operation
- Familiarity with functional safety (FuSa) concepts
- Multi-robot coordination at fleet scale: task allocation and assignment, traffic management, deconfliction, multi-agent path finding
Company info
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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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