Figure is an AI Robotics company developing a general purpose humanoid. Our Humanoid is designed for corporate tasks targeting labor shortages and jobs that are undesirable or unsafe. We are based in Sunnyvale, CA and require 5 days/week in-office collaboration.
Figure’s vision is to deploy autonomous humanoids at a global scale. Our AI team is looking for Motion Planning and Navigation Engineers to empower Figure humanoid robots with the ability to avoid getting stuck while moving throughout a world designed for humans.
Responsibilities:
Design, implement, test, and deploy motion planning and navigation algorithms for humanoid robots. These will include generating body paths, footsteps and handholds, collision free arm trajectories, and grasps
Assist in planning algorithms for high-level decision making and human-machine interaction
Develop and use modern software engineering techniques to implement high quality, well-tested software
Evaluate potential motion planning and navigation solutions and make design trade offs and decisions based on robot requirements
Collaborate with other Figure team members to develop and implement a full autonomy stack
Engineer and ship high quality, reliable software that will be deployed to the real world
Work with the Figure Integration and Test team to evaluate and continuously improve motion planning and navigation software
Requirements:
Experience implementing, testing, and deploying motion planning and navigation solutions in C++ and/or Python on real robots
Understand both traditional and machine learning approaches to motion planning and navigation, and the tradeoffs between various techniques
Capable of quickly writing massive amounts of high quality, well-tested, motion planning and navigation software
Possess both a theoretical understanding and have practical experience with motion planning and navigation algorithms
Have a deep knowledge of state of the art techniques, data structures, and software tools
Thrive in a high pace environment, where solutions are often unclear and require exploration
Experience in motion planning and navigation
Bonus Qualifications:
Passionate about building humanoid robots
Experience with deploying real world motion planning and navigation solutions for commercial applications
Publication record of developing and deploying motion planning and navigation solutions