Senior Software Engineer, Motion Planning

Summary

Join Standard Bot's motion planning team as a Senior Software Engineer and help architect the future of robotics. You will implement core functionality, identify and drive high-impact projects, advise leadership, and mentor other engineers. The ideal candidate possesses full-stack experience, 3+ years working with robotic systems, and strong communication skills. A background in algorithmic focus and ROS/MoveIt2 experience is preferred but not required. Standard Bot offers a challenging and ambitious work environment with opportunities to make sophisticated motion planning accessible to a broader audience.

Requirements

• Full stack experience: You will be covered all parts of driving a project to completion, both frontend and backend work
• Experience: You have a strong technical background, including 3+ years working with robotic systems and complex software environments
• Growth + Optimism: You are excited by challenging robotics problems and eager to make sophisticated motion planning accessible to non-experts
• Clarity of Communication: You excel in written and verbal communication and can effectively explain complex robotics concepts to diverse audiences
• Impact Driven: You relentlessly seek user impact and value practical solutions over technical idealism
• Proactive Simplicity: You prioritize simplicity, reliability, and velocity in robotics applications and proactively identify opportunities to improve motion planning systems
• Excelling in Ambitious Environments: You excel in dynamic and ambitious environments, working with a diverse group of individuals and backgrounds

Responsibilities

• Implement core functionality surrounding our motion planning service
• Identify, scope, and drive high impact technical projects in robotic manipulation
• Advise leadership on technical decisions and strategy in robotics
• Mentor and advise other engineers on best practices and motion planning concepts

Preferred Qualifications

• Algorithmic focused experience: Many of our project require diving into deeper into the motion planning algorithm stack, so an algorithmic focused background is preferred
• ROS/Moveit2 Experience: We prefer someone with ROS experience to quickly get up to speed with our motion planning stack