Kerja Sepenuh Masa Staff Planning Research Scientist, Gaji tinggi SGD 18,000 di VENTI TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD. West Region (Singapore) - Maukerja

Position overview

We are seeking a Staff Planning Research Scientist to lead the technical direction and system architecture for planning within our autonomy stack. In this role, you will drive the research roadmap, guide algorithmic innovation, and define how planning interacts with perception, prediction, and control systems to achieve safe, efficient, and scalable autonomy.

You will be responsible for identifying high-impact research directions, validating novel approaches through simulation and deployment, and mentoring the team to translate advanced theory into robust, real-world systems. This is a high-influence position suited for an individual who thrives at the intersection of deep technical research and system-level autonomy design.

Role responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Define the long-term research and development roadmap for planning within the autonomy stack. Identify key challenges in decision-making, trajectory generation, and optimization for real-world logistics operations.

• Algorithm Development: Design, analyze, and validate advanced route, behavior, and motion planning algorithms. Push the boundaries of autonomous planning through novel approaches in optimization, learning, and uncertainty modeling.

• System Integration: Lead integration of planning algorithms with perception, prediction, localization, and control systems. Anticipate system-level trade-offs and guide architectural decisions for reliable deployment.
• Research to deployment: Evaluate academic and industrial research trends, prototype promising ideas, and guide their evolution into production-ready systems. Balance long-term research innovation with near-term deployment needs.

• Performance and Robustness Analysis: Establish methods to evaluate planning performance under complex and uncertain real-world conditions. Identify bottlenecks and develop strategies to enhance reliability, safety, and efficiency.

• Mentorship and Team Development: Provide technical guidance to researchers and engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, ownership, and delivery.

• External Awareness: Stay informed on advances in planning, decision-making, and learning for autonomy. Represent Venti in research discussions, conferences, and technical collaborations where appropriate..

Required experience

• Educational Background: Ph.D. or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or a related field, with a focus on route planning, motion planning, or autonomous systems.

• Deep Planning Expertise: Mastery of planning algorithms (graph search, sampling-based, and optimization-based methods), route planning, and decision-making frameworks (behavior trees, FSMs, RL).

• Theoretical Foundations: Strong background in optimization, probabilistic reasoning, or control theory. Proven ability to formulate and solve complex autonomy problems using rigorous mathematical principles.

• Experience with Real-world Systems: Hands-on experience with ROS (Robot Operating System) and real-world deployment of autonomous systems or robots.

• Leadership and Mentorship: Experience leading technical projects, mentoring engineers, and contributing to organizational growth.

• Collaboration & Communication: Excellent communication skills for working across multidisciplinary teams and influencing technical direction.

• Venti is the global leader in the $175 billion AV logistics hubs market. Founded in 2018 with technology developed in MIT professor Rus' lab, we develop, sell, and deploy software systems for driverless vehicles in ports, factories, warehouses, and communities.
• Venti gives customers a clear value proposition: Removing drivers saves multiple driver-shift costs, increases vehicle utilization by 15%+, and significantly improves safety. This translates to savings per vehicle-year of $150,000 - $220,000 in US and $60,000 - $90,000 in Asia.
• Our powerful strategic partners are pathways for explosive growth.
• AV Container Movers for ports with PSA, the most respected port operator in the world with 60 ports under management AV Tug Trailer systems with SAIC Anji Logistics, the largest automotive logistics company in the world. Small last-mile vehicles with Seedland, a large real estate developer and operator
• The company benchmarked #1 in the world in Perception tech - the core of autonomy - in 2020.
• Our powerful autonomy system has powered 12 different vehicle types. We beat the competition in cost and quality: new vehicle deployment within a week, area mapping in a morning, factor of five cost reduction for sensors and hardware.
• Come ride with us into the future.