Staff Robotics System and Control Engineer

Description

Company Introduction

We exist to wow our customers. We know were doing the right thing when we hear our customers say How did we ever live without Coupang Born out of an obsession to make shopping eating and living easier than ever were collectively disrupting the multi-billion-dollar e-commerce industry from the ground up. We are one of the fastest-growing ecommerce companies that established an unparalleled reputation for being a dominant and reliable force in South Korean commerce.

We are proud to have the best of both worlds a startup culture with the resources of a large global public company. This fuels us to continue our growth and launch new services at the speed we have been since our inception. We are all entrepreneurial surrounded by opportunities to drive new initiatives and innovations. At our core we are bold and ambitious people that like to get our hands dirty and make a hands-on impact. At Coupang you will see yourself your colleagues your team and the company grow every day.

Our mission to build the future of commerce is real. We push the boundaries of whats possible to solve problems and break traditional tradeoffs. Join Coupang now to create an epic experience in this always-on high-tech and hyper-connected world.

Job Overview

Global Operations Automation and Robotics Technology (GO ART) is the Zero-One organization within Coupang chartered to design build and deploy the most advanced fulfillment and transportation automation and robotics solutions in the industry. We are transforming Coupangs logistics network through in-house robotics computer vision and AI at a scale and speed unmatched in Asian e-commerce. The team is based in Mountain View Seattle and Seoul.

We are seeking a Robotics Planning and Control Engineer to develop robust high-performance autonomy software for real-world robotic this role you will own and contribute across the motion-planning and control stack transforming perception task-level goals and system constraints into safe efficient and reliable robot behavior.

You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams spanning hardware perception systems and product engineering to deploy robotic capabilities in industrial environments. The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in robotics algorithms with a systems-level mindset and hands-on experience taking solutions from prototype through validation and production deployment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design implement and optimize motion-planning trajectory-optimization manipulation-planning and feedback-control algorithms for robotic systems.
• Develop planning and control software for collision avoidance constrained motion grasping manipulation and task execution in dynamic uncertain environments.
• Integrate planning and control modules with perception state estimation kinematics dynamics simulation and robot hardware.
• Build and maintain production-quality robotics software.
• Develop simulation testing and validation workflows that assess safety robustness latency repeatability and task success across representative operating conditions.
• Diagnose and resolve issues observed during robot bring-up field testing and deployment; use data-driven methods to improve system performance and reliability.
• Collaborate with hardware perception and system teams to define system interfaces compute and sensor requirements and deployment architectures.
• Contribute to technical roadmaps architecture decisions code reviews documentation and engineering best practices.
• Stay current with advances in robotics planning control learning and foundation models and evaluate their applicability to real-world products.

Basic Qualifications

• Masters degree or Ph.D. with 24 years experience in industrial in Robotics Computer Science Mechanical Engineering Electrical Engineering Control or a closely related field.
• Strong foundation in robotics including kinematics dynamics state estimation motion planning trajectory optimization optimal control and feedback control.
• Demonstrated experience developing planning and control algorithms for robot manipulators mobile robots humanoids or other complex robotic platforms.
• Proficiency in C with experience writing maintainable tested and performance-conscious production software.
• Hands-on experience with robotics open-source ecosystems and libraries such as ROS/ROS 2 MoveIt cuRobo Pinocchio OMPL Drake Isaac Sim or equivalent tools.
• Experience integrating and debugging a full robotic system across software sensors actuators middleware simulation and hardware.
• Real-world industrial robotics experience including deploying validating or supporting robots in manufacturing logistics warehousing inspection service or comparable operational environments.
• Strong analytical communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven record of deploying reliable autonomy manipulation or motion-control systems at scale in industrial or commercial settings.
• Expertise in modern GPU-accelerated planning differentiable optimization sampling-based planning model predictive control (MPC) whole-body control or real-time trajectory generation.
• Experience with state-of-the-art learning-enabled robotics approaches including vision-language-action (VLA) models world models imitation learning reinforcement learning diffusion policies and sim-to-real methods.
• Experience combining learned policies or foundation models with classical planning optimization safety constraints and control methods.
• Familiarity with multimodal perception scene understanding grasp synthesis contact-rich manipulation or closed-loop visual servoing.
• Experience with simulation platforms digital twins synthetic-data pipelines and automated regression or hardware-in-the-loop testing.
• Contributions to open-source robotics projects peer-reviewed publications patents or demonstrated technical leadership in the robotics community.

Pay & Benefits

Our compensation reflects the cost of living across several US geographic markets. At Coupang your base pay is one part of your total compensation.

The base pay for this position ranges from $164K/year to $282K/year. Pay is based on several factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience.

General Description of All Benefits

• Annual bonus is 0-20% of the base salary
• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life AD&D insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HAS)
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) program
• 401K Plan with Company Match
• 18-21 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) a year based on the tenure
• 12 Paid Holidays
• Paid Parental leave
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• MTV- Free Electric Car Charging Station

General Description of Other Compensation

Other Compensation includes but is not limited to bonuses equity or other forms of compensation that would be offered to the hired applicant in addition to their established salary or wage scale.

Recruitment Process and Others

Recruitment Process

• Application Review - Phone Interview - Onsite (or Virtual Onsite) Interview Offer

• The exact nature of the recruitment process may vary according to the specific job and may be changed due to scheduling or other circumstances.

• Interview schedules and the results will be informed to the applicant via the e-mail address submitted at the application stage.

Details to Consider

• This job posting may be closed prior to the stated end date for application if all openings are filled.

• Coupang has the right to rescind an offer of employment if a candidate is found to have submitted false information as part of the application process.

• Coupang does not discriminate against disabled applicants or those with veteran status. We are proud to offer equal opportunities for all applicants.

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