Senior Robotics Planning Engineer

Pronto
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 176,000 - 240,000 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 7+ yearsEducation: phdSkills: ["Collaboration","Ownership"]

Develop high-level autonomy planning systems that coordinate fleets of autonomous haul trucks in mining environments. Build motion planning, coordination planning, and fleet planning algorithms that decide where and when trucks go while avoiding collisions and maximizing throughput. Design and optimize planning for real-time production performance, develop simulation and visualization validation tools, and debug issues using logged data and replay tools, collaborating with controls engineers.

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Senior Robotics Planning Engineer

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Job Summary

Develop high-level autonomy planning systems that coordinate fleets of autonomous haul trucks in mining environments. Build motion planning, coordination planning, and fleet planning algorithms that decide where and when trucks go while avoiding collisions and maximizing throughput. Design and optimize planning for real-time production performance, develop simulation and visualization validation tools, and debug issues using logged data and replay tools, collaborating with controls engineers.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Develop path/motion planning algorithms to generate smooth, safe trajectories for autonomous haul trucks.
  • •Build multi-vehicle coordination and fleet planning systems that avoid collisions and maximize throughput.
  • •Design algorithms for non-holonomic vehicles and prevent deadlocks using multi-agent coordination.
  • •Create simulation and visualization tools to validate planning algorithms, using replay and logged data for debugging.
  • •Optimize planning algorithms for real-time performance and collaborate with controls engineers to ensure planned paths are executable.
Travel: Low travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 176,000 - 240,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionDisability InsuranceLife Insurance401kEquityPaid LeaveParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •BS/MS/PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field.
  • •7+ years of professional (non-internship) software development experience.
  • •Strong foundation in motion planning algorithms and vehicle kinematics/nonholonomic constraints.
  • •Experience with computational geometry (e.g., collision detection, polygon operations).
  • •Proficiency in Python and NumPy for numerical computing, including optimizing for real-time performance.
Experience:7+ yearsAutonomous vehiclesRoboticsMining
Education:PhD / Doctorate
Skills:CollaborationOwnership
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonNumPyC++ShapelyNumbaSciPyGEOSRedisZeroMQDubinsReeds-SheppDijkstra

Company Brief

Pronto
Develops autonomous driving technology for commercial freight, focusing on SAE-level automation solutions for long-haul trucking to improve safety, efficiency, and driver experience through AI, perception, and vehicle control systems.
Industry: Autonomous Vehicles
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