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Robotics Autonomy Engineer, Planning & Control (Federal)

FieldAI· Engineering – Autonomy
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Irvine, CA$100k - $200kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Robotics Autonomy Engineer focused on planning and control to enable field-ready robotic systems across diverse environments, including navigation, trajectory generation, and motion control for wheeled, legged, and humanoid platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Develop Robust Motion Planning Algorithms
  • Advance Control and Planning Integration
  • Validate and Test Across the Stack
  • Diagnose and Improve Field Performance

Qualifications

  • PhD degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with 2+ years of industry or applied research experience or MS degree in a related field with 4+ years of relevant experience, or BS degree in a related field with 8+ years of relevant experience
  • Strong understanding of motion planning, trajectory generation, and control systems
  • Experience developing algorithms for one or more robotic systems (wheeled, legged, wheeled-legged, humanoid)
  • Familiarity with motion planning libraries like OMPL, MoveIt, Nav2 stack etc
  • Solid programming skills in C++ and Python on Linux-based systems
  • Familiarity with robotics middleware such as ROS/ROS 2
  • Experience with robot sensors including LiDARs, stereo/depth cameras, IMUs, GPS, wheel encoders

Skills

Required:Motion planningTrajectory generationControl systemsC++PythonROS/ROS 2Sensors

Benefits

  • full benefits
  • equity
  • generous time
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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