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Edison Smart® · Chicago, Illinois
Senior Robotics Engineer, Task Planning & Autonomy
Chicago, IL - On site
Up to $180k + equity
Visa sponsorship and relocation support
The company
A well funded construction robotics company building AI powered robots that manufacture.
The role
You’ll own how the robots decide what to do next. A planning layer already exists; your job is to make it scalable, production ready and able to work across both robot product lines.
Every robot action comes down to two primitives: move or actuate. You’ll build the planner that reasons over a goal, sequences those primitives, picks classical control or a learned policy for each step, and recovers when something goes wrong. The aim is simple: a robot finishes a whole panel or room on its own.
This is the first of three principal level hires (alongside Robot Learning and World Sensing), so you’ll be shaping the foundation the rest of the autonomy stack is built on.
What you’ll do
Define the primitive library and the contract between planner and executor
Build the task graph from BIM models: what’s in front of the robot and what depends on what
Build a two layer planner: a reasoning layer (LLM / reasoning models) for open ended decisions, plus solvers for reach, collision and trajectory
Decide where reasoning models help and where they don’t, and keep them off the real time control path
Build execution monitoring and recovery: verify, retry, switch approach, flag or escalate to a person
Log every decision with its reasoning so any outcome can be explained
Design for two robots sharing one task (one holds, one fastens)
Set autonomy architecture, mentor engineers, and still write production code and test on real robots every week
What you’ll bring
5+ years building autonomy, task planning or decision making systems for robots or AVs, deployed in production
Hands on manipulation experience with real hardware, ideally end effectors in unstructured environments
Task level planning: behavior trees, TAMP, HTN or similar
Execution monitoring and fault recovery on a deployed system
Hands on with LLMs or reasoning models in a robot decision loop
Strong Python and C++, ROS2, Linux, Docker, CI/CD
Real ownership: you built it, not just contributed to it. Startup or small team experience is a big plus
Experience setting technical direction and mentoring senior engineers
Nice to have
MS or PhD in Robotics, CS or AI
Navigation as well as manipulation
MoveIt, OMPL or trajectory optimisation
Multi robot coordination or fleet orchestration
Functional safety or formal verification
CAD / BIM experience, or a background in construction, manufacturing or industrial automation
What’s on offer
Base salary up to $200k
Equity
Visa sponsorship and relocation support
Direct access to robots, sensors and manufacturing environments every week
A rare problem: agentic planning on physical robots, in messy real world sites
Details
| Company | Edison Smart® |
| Location | Chicago, Illinois |
| Type | FULL TIME |
| Niche | Full-time |
| Salary | $1,80,000 – $1,80,000 / yr |