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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