Senior Software Engineer, Planning & Orchestration

Intrinsic is Alphabets bet aiming to reimagine the potential of industrial robotics. Our team believes that advances in AI perception and simulation will redefine whats possible for industrial robotics in the near future with software and data at the core.

Our mission is to make industrial robotics intelligent accessible and usable for millions more businesses entrepreneurs and developers. We are a dynamic team of engineers roboticists designers and technologists who are passionate about unlocking the creative and economic potential of industrial robotics.

Role

As a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Planning and Orchestration you will play a critical role in building the factory of the future. You will work independently to model flexible job shop scheduling problems and implement the solvers necessary for next-generation job scheduling. Your work will focus on building a flexible and dynamic orchestration system that commands AI-powered workcells and material handling systems including AMRs mobile manipulators and conveyors. By solving complex multi-agent orchestration and load balancing challenges you will help ensure optimal production schedules and the overall success of Intrinsics manufacturing solutions.

How your work moves the mission forward

• Design and implement solvers for job scheduling to drive optimal production schedule generation.
• Build a dynamic orchestration system to execute plans across diverse hardware including mobile manipulators and conveyors.
• Integrate orchestration and planning layers with external systems such as MES and inventory management software to synchronize operations.
• Integrate generative AI tools to improve operational efficiency.

Skills you will need to be successful

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Robotics Operations Research or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of professional software development experience including proficiency in C and Python.
• Experience modeling and solving scheduling problems using optimization tools.
• Experience integrating software with industrial systems (e.g. MES inventory management) or AI-based tools.
• Familiarity with distributed frameworks and multi-agent orchestration.

Skills that will differentiate your candidacy

• PhD in Computer Science Robotics Operations Research or a related field.
• Deep understanding of deliberation frameworks and modelling workflows.
• Experience working with specific material handling hardware such as AMRs or mobile manipulators.
• Knowledge of ROS 2 with experience deploying it in production systems.
• Background in graph search motion planning or discrete optimization.
• Experience developing agentic AI systems.

At Intrinsic we are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment at Intrinsic is based solely on a persons merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. Intrinsic does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race creed color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity/expression national origin disability age genetic information veteran status marital status pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories consistent with legal requirements. It is Intrinsics policy to comply with all applicable national state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity.

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