Robotics Navigation and Control Engineer

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🕒 March 19

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Slip Robotics

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11 - 50 employees

🚗 Transport

☁️ SaaS

💰 $10.6M Venture Round on 2023-05

Transport • Logistics • SaaS

Slip Robotics is a company focused on transforming the logistics industry with its innovative robots-as-a-service technology. Their flagship product, SlipBots, are designed to eliminate bottlenecks in loading docks by drastically improving speed, safety, and efficiency in the freight loading process. SlipBots enable truck loading and unloading in just 5 minutes without the need for forklift operators to enter trailers, thereby increasing throughput and expanding the labor pool. The service offers a subscription model that includes comprehensive support and live data insights without requiring Wi-Fi or IT integration, making it a seamless solution for last-mile freight logistics. Slip Robotics aims to revolutionize supply chain operations by optimizing short-haul, high-frequency logistics across various industries.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and optimize path planning and trajectory generation for autonomous mobile robots operating in constrained logistics environments • Develop and tune motion controllers (PID, MPC, or similar) for heavy-payload platforms with real-world dynamics • Implement obstacle avoidance and safety behaviors that work reliably around people and infrastructure • Own the localization stack, working with perception engineers to integrate sensor-based position estimates into the control loop • Build simulation models and validate them against real robot behavior for faster development iteration • Analyze and improve robot performance using field data, telemetry, and logs from deployed systems • Collaborate with perception, hardware, and cloud infrastructure teams to deliver integrated autonomy features • Contribute to CI/CD pipelines for controls software testing and deployment to the robot fleet

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience developing navigation and control systems for physical robots at a robotics or autonomous vehicle company • Strong proficiency in C++ and Python • Deep understanding of motion planning algorithms (A*, D*, RRT variants, lattice planners, or similar) • Hands-on experience designing and tuning controllers for mobile robot platforms • Production experience with ROS or ROS 2 navigation stacks • Experience with localization techniques (EKF, particle filters, scan matching, visual odometry) • Demonstrated ability to bridge the sim-to-real gap—tuning algorithms that work on actual hardware, not just in simulation • Comfort analyzing system behavior from logs and telemetry data • Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in a small team

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity in an early-stage robotics company • Comprehensive benefits including health, dental, and vision • Permissive time off policy • A small team where your work has direct, visible impact on shipped products • The chance to work on robots that are operating in production today—not a research project