Manager, AMR Planning & Control Team

Why Join Seegrid?

Seegrid is the leading provider of self-driving industrial vehicles.  We develop and deliver mobile robots and enterprise software for global leaders in logistics, manufacturing, warehousing, and e-commerce.  Our suite of solutions includes vision-guided vehicles, fleet management software, actionable analytics, and best-in-class service and support.  Our unique and proven technology sets us apart-our automation solutions have safely driven millions of autonomous miles in real production facilities without a single personnel safety incident.  We are seeking energetic, bright, and friendly people to help achieve our vision:  to fortify global supply chains and create profitable economies with safe, seamless, and smart mobile robotics solutions.

About the Role

The Planning and Execution team at Seegrid is responsible for delivering robust robotics primitives to enable product features and capabilities associated with our enterprise material handling solutions.  As the Manager of Planning and Execution, you will lead a team of talented software engineers responsible for developing production grade C++ solutions for truck motion and behavior execution.

Under your leadership, the team will develop modular extensible discrete subsystems such as global path planning, coordinated object detection and manipulation, local (trajectory) controllers, and behavioral execution. You will ensure seamless cross-functional collaboration, helping your team integrate with Perception, Fleet, and Truck application software teams.  You will guide technical leads on larger projects, mentor engineers to own components in the planning and execution stack, and ensure the team effectively gathers requirements from stakeholders. 

Responsibilities Include:

• Manage, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers tasked with researching, designing, developing, and maintaining motion planning algorithms and scalable task/behavior execution frameworks.
• Collaborate with partners including Product Management, Perception, Fleet, and Truck Application SW team members to deliver robust solutions in accordance with our product roadmap.
• Ensure best practices regarding software design and development are followed.
• Ensure high engineering standards by overseeing the development of unit, module, and system level tests, and fostering a culture of rigorous code reviews among peers.
• Guide the team in developing reusable modules that can be composed to solve material handling tasks
• Drive initiatives to profile and optimize runtime performance.
• Manage on-call rotations in support of software releases and facility installations

Management

• Agile Leadership:  Experience leading software engineering teams through Agile development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban), managing sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Engineering Best Practices:  Solid understanding of modern software engineering best practices, including CI/CD pipelines, test-driven development (TDD), version control (Git), and rigorous code review standards.
• Team Development:  Track record of recruiting top talent, conducting performance reviews, holding regular 1-on-1s, and actively guiding the career growth and technical development of direct reports.
• Cross-Functional Communications:  Ability to translate complex technical constraints into clear business impacts, serving as a bridge between engineering and Product Management (PdM).
• Technical Project Management:  Experience balancing feature delivery with technical debt management, resource allocation, and timeline estimation for complex, interdependent robotics subsystems.
• Safety & Quality Focus:  Commitment to a culture of safety, quality, and reliability, essential for deploying autonomous vehicles into real-world production facilities.

Technical:

• BS/MS/PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, or related field
• 5+ years of relevant professional experience
• Strong technical foundation with C++ and experience with Python to effectively mentor and review your team's work
• Experience in working on autonomous agents in any field (e.g., Game Development, Robotics, Defense, Manufacturing, Finance, etc.)
• Experience in one or more of the following domains:  Graph/Sample based Planning, Behavioral Planning, Decision Making, Multi-Agent Coordination, Object Manipulation.

Desirable Qualifications:

• Experience in working on autonomous vehicles in any field (e.g., AGVs, automotive, agriculture, etc.)
• Experience in Linux systems programming
• Experience with ROS/ROS2 or other data-centric middleware architectures
• Experience with navigation and motion planning frameworks such as Nav2 and Moveit2
• Experience with modern task execution frameworks such as behavior trees
• Experience with simulation applications (e.g. Gazebo, Nvidia Isaac Sim, etc.)

Seegrid has been recognized nationally as a Best-Place-to-Work.  We'd love to have you join us!

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, nation origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.  Seegrid is an equal opportunity employer Minorities/Females/People with Disabilities/Protected Veterans/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.