# Senior Robotics Software Engineer, Motion Planning & Manipulation

About Valstad Valstad is building the machine that builds the ships. We combine industrial robotics, welding, sensing, and AI to turn 3D models into real high-mix ship structure. Our mission is to rapidly expand America's maritime output by 100x. Our team works directly with large industrial robots and real manufacturing equipment at our Austin facility. The systems we build will ultimately be deployed across shipyards and industrial facilities throughout the country. The Role Valstad is seeking a Senior Robotics Software Engineer to build the motion-planning and manipulation systems that convert CAD geometry and manufacturing requirements into reliable robot execution. You will work across the full planning stack, including coordinate frames, kinematics, inverse kinematics, collision checking, constrained Cartesian motion, trajectory generation, external-axis coordination, calibration, simulation, and industrial robot integration. Our robots must execute long, process-constrained paths around large steel structures while maintaining precise tool position, orientation, speed, and clearance. They must account for linear rails, fixtures, workpiece variation, controller behavior, and

- **Id**: 801226
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/valstad-senior-robotics-software-engineer-motion-planning-manipulation>
- **Role**: Robotics
- **Role family**: Robotics
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Austin, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-31T18:02:28Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-31
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T21:45:25Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 70
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6473
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Robotic Software & Control Systems, Industrial Robotics, Metal Fabrication

## Company

- **Id**: 688524
- **Name**: Valstad
- **Domain**: valstad.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/valstad>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 123000
- **Max usd**: 246000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 220

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Drake** — Optional: no
- **Inverse Kinematics** — Optional: no
- **MoveIt** — Optional: no
- **OMPL** — Optional: no
- **ROS** — Optional: no
- **ROS-Industrial** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 70

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-12T07:56:33Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 19
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.534
- **P room**: 0.35
- **Age days**: 69
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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