Robotics Engineer (Path Planning)

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Hiring Company: Molg

One-liner: Molg is building robotic systems that make electronics manufacturing circular, working with hyperscalers and leading electronics manufacturers.

Why Join Us:

Role Responsibilities

• Design and implement motion and path planning algorithms for arm-based industrial robots operating in dense, multi-arm robotic cells

• Develop robust collision detection and avoidance systems that account for robot geometry, tooling, fixtures, and dynamic obstacles

• Build and maintain multi-arm coordination strategies, including synchronization, shared workspace reasoning, and deadlock avoidance

• Integrate motion planning systems with real robotic hardware, controllers, and higher-level task planning software

• Tune planners for real-world execution, balancing optimality, speed, determinism, and safety under production constraints

• Work closely with mechanical and systems engineers to ensure motion plans are feasible given real tolerances, compliance, and variability

• Debug and improve robot behavior using data from live cells, logs, and telemetry—not just simulation results

• Contribute to architectural decisions around planning frameworks, kinematics representations, and system performance

Qualitications

Required

• Strong experience with motion and path planning for arm-based robots (industrial or collaborative)

• Solid understanding of collision detection, geometric reasoning, and kinematics in constrained environments

• Experience coordinating multiple robotic arms operating in shared or overlapping workspaces

• Proficiency in C++ and/or Python for robotics and performance-critical systems

• Comfort working with robotics middleware and frameworks (e.g., ROS2, custom planners)

• Ability to work in-person at Molg HQ in Sterling, VA