Senior Agentic Planning Engineer
Lightspeed, Northbrook, IL
The role
As Senior Agentic Planning Engineer, you will own how LightSpeed's robots decide what to do next. Every robot action is one of two primitives, move or actuate. You will build the planner that reasons over a goal, sequences those primitives, chooses classical control or a learned policy for each step, and recovers when a step fails.
Planning doesn't stop after the first step. Your planner keeps deciding as the robot works, using live data from the sensors and the result of every action. When it works, a robot finishes a whole panel or room on its own, with every decision it makes.
Nice to have
- MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, AI or a related field
- Behavior or decision planning on an autonomous vehicle team
- LLM or VLM agents for robotics, with constrained action spaces and guardrails