Staff/Senior Robotics Engineer – Motion Planning & Control

About the Company

Trener Robotics is building the future of industrial automation through intelligent agents that understand natural language and control robotic stations. Their product, Acteris, bridges AI and robotics to deliver flexible, user-friendly automation.

Responsibilities

• Own the motion planning and control architecture for robot manipulators across multiple hardware platforms
• Design and implement real-time control pipelines capable of reacting to dynamic environments and sensor feedback
• Develop trajectory optimization and replanning capabilities handling kinematic and dynamic constraints
• Integrate perception and sensor feedback into closed-loop control for visual and force/torque signals
• Collaborate with AI and behavior teams to ground learned policies into physically sound motion
• Define safety and constraint frameworks for workspace limits and collision avoidance
• Develop simulation environments and hardware-in-the-loop test rigs for algorithm validation

Requirements

• Proven experience designing and deploying motion planning and real-time control systems for robot manipulators
• Deep understanding of sampling-based and optimization-based planning approaches
• Strong background in model-based and predictive control methods
• Hands-on experience integrating perception data into reactive control loops
• Experience writing production-quality C++ and Python for robotics
• Comfort working across hardware boundaries including controllers, sensors, and grippers
• Strong mathematical foundations in optimization, control theory, and geometry

Preferred Qualifications

• Research or applied experience with learned motion generation and data-driven approaches
• Familiarity with formal or certificate-based approaches to guaranteeing safety properties
• Experience working across multiple robot brands and vendor-specific APIs
• Publication record or open-source contributions in motion planning, control, or manipulation