Principal Software Engineer - Manipulation Planning
Berkshire Grey
Software Engineering
Bedford, MA, USA
Posted on Friday, September 8, 2023
- The Engineer in this role will work with a multidisciplinary team to develop planning software and algorithms for robotic manipulation applications related to store replenishment and e-commerce order fulfillment.
- This candidate will be expected to be a primary contributor and leader driving to real-world customer delivery, acceptance, and operation.
Skills/Technical Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years’ experience in software development or Master’s degree and 2+ years experience, or PhD with a focus in Robotic Motion Planning
- Experience in designing and implementing planning solutions for manipulation related problems on real robotics systems
- Commercial experience in a fast paced, agile environment
- Ability to work as part of an interdisciplinary team
- Demonstrated ability to
- Apply planning algorithms to real-world manipulation problems
- Ability to synthesize approaches to problems from new or existing techniques
- Implement complex, real-world software solutions
- Operate autonomously
- Develop on and debug real robotic systems
- Proficient in
- Motion planning libraries (e.g. OpenRave, OMPL, DART, SBPL, prpy, etc)
- Controls
- Python
- C++
- System design
- Design patterns
- VCS (Git)
- ROS
- Issue tracking system (Jira)
- Design patterns
Preferred Qualifications:
- Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, or closely related field
- Demonstrated abilities in one or more of the following
- Trajectory generation for 6-DOF manipulators
- Applying geometric algorithms to real-world problems
- Applying nonlinear or combinatorial optimization techniques
- API development (RESTful, websockets)
- Robotics and robotic solutions
- Parallel/distributed systems
- Asynchronous/concurrent programming (asyncio)
- NoSQL databases (MongoDB)
- Messaging Systems (gRPC, Kafka)
- CI/CD (Jenkins, automated testing)
Educational Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or closely related field
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