# CV Guidance - Hexagon Applications

**Created:** 2026-03-11
**Status:** Draft
**Related:** [[Hexagon Role Analysis]], [[Job Hunt]]

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## Purpose

Concrete, actionable CV tailoring guidance for Hexagon Robotics applications. Focus on motion planning role (primary) and mission control role (secondary).

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## CV Structure Recommendation

### 1. Headline (if used)
**For Motion Planning:** "Senior Robotics Engineer | Motion Planning & Autonomous Navigation"
**For Mission Control:** "Senior Software Engineer | Robotics Systems Architecture & Integration"

### 2. Summary (3-4 lines max)

**Motion Planning:**
"Senior robotics engineer with 5+ years leading motion planning, localization, and autonomous navigation systems. Specialized in real-time trajectory optimization, MPC, and planning under dynamic constraints. Transitioning expertise from aerial platforms to humanoid robotics with focus on whole-body motion planning."

**Mission Control:**
"Senior software engineer with proven track record architecting and integrating complex autonomous systems. Led development of end-to-end drone platform integrating perception, planning, and control. Experienced in production-quality robotics software, CI/CD, and cross-team coordination."

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## Experience Bullet Rewrites

### Motion Planning Emphasis

**Current:** (whatever exists about motion planning on CV)

**Enhanced versions:**

1. **Global/Local Planning:**
   - "Designed and implemented hierarchical motion planning stack combining global path planning (A*, RRT*) with local trajectory optimization for real-time obstacle avoidance."

2. **Real-time MPC:**
   - "Developed MPC-based trajectory tracking running at 100Hz with hardware-in-loop validation, achieving <5cm tracking error in dynamic environments."

3. **Planning under uncertainty:**
   - "Integrated probabilistic obstacle prediction into planning pipeline, enabling safe navigation in partially observable environments."

4. **Transfer to humanoid:**
   - "Architected planning system with extensibility to legged platforms; familiar with whole-body planning concepts and contact-rich manipulation."

### Mission Control / Integration Emphasis

1. **System Architecture:**
   - "Architected modular flight software stack with clean interfaces between perception, planning, and control layers, enabling rapid integration and testing."

2. **Integration Leadership:**
   - "Led integration of multi-sensor fusion stack (IMU, camera, LiDAR, GPS) with state estimation and control, reducing integration bugs by 40%."

3. **Production Quality:**
   - "Established CI/CD pipelines, automated regression testing, and simulation-to-real workflows for safety-critical autonomous systems."

4. **Cross-team Coordination:**
   - "Coordinated development across perception, planning, and control teams; defined interfaces and integration milestones."

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## Keywords to Include

### Motion Planning Role (Primary)
- Motion planning (global/local, sampling-based, optimization-based)
- MPC (Model Predictive Control)
- Trajectory optimization
- Collision avoidance
- Real-time systems
- ROS2
- C++ / Python
- State estimation / SLAM (secondary but relevant)
- Legged locomotion (learning objective)
- Whole-body planning (learning objective)
- Manipulation planning (learning objective)

### Mission Control Role (Secondary)
- System architecture
- Integration
- Orchestration
- Mission control
- Behavior trees / state machines
- Distributed systems
- CI/CD
- Production-quality software
- Cross-team coordination
- ROS2
- C++ / Python

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## Keywords to De-emphasize

### For Motion Planning Role
- Hardware design (not relevant)
- Business development (not relevant)
- Frontend/web development (not relevant)

### For Mission Control Role
- Deep learning specialization (overemphasis could signal ML focus over systems)
- Pure simulation work without real-robot validation

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## Cover Letter Points

### Motion Planning (Primary)

**Paragraph 1:** "I've spent the last 5 years building motion planning systems for autonomous drones, from global path planning to real-time MPC-based trajectory tracking. Your Motion Planning Engineer role is exactly the kind of deep technical work I'm looking for."

**Paragraph 2:** "At [previous company], I led the planning stack development for [platform]. Key achievements: [2-3 specific accomplishments with metrics]."

**Paragraph 3:** "I'm transitioning to humanoid robotics because the whole-body planning problem is the next frontier in motion planning. The challenge of coordinating locomotion and manipulation under contact constraints is where I want to build expertise."

### Mission Control (Secondary)

**Paragraph 1:** "I've spent the last 5 years building integrated autonomous systems, from perception to control. Your Mission Control role matches my experience architecting the orchestration layer that ties robotic subsystems together."

**Paragraph 2:** "At [previous company], I architected the flight software stack integrating perception, planning, and control. Key achievements: [specifics]."

**Paragraph 3:** "I'm interested in Hexagon because [specific reason about humanoid robotics and Zurich]."

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## Gaps to Address

### For Motion Planning Role
- **Legged locomotion:** Acknowledge gap; show learning plan (e.g., "Currently studying whole-body motion planning for legged systems through [resources]")
- **Manipulation planning:** Highlight any arm/gripper experience; if none, show awareness of the domain
- **Contact-rich planning:** New area; position as learning opportunity

### For Mission Control Role
- **Behavior trees / SMACC:** Research and mention awareness
- **Distributed systems:** Expand any multi-process/multi-node architecture experience

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## Pre-Application Checklist

- [ ] Update CV with motion planning emphasis
- [ ] Tailor summary for each role
- [ ] Add specific bullet rewrites for planning/integration experience
- [ ] Review LinkedIn profile alignment
- [ ] Prepare cover letter points
- [ ] Research Hexagon Robotics recent news for talking points
- [ ] Prepare questions about team structure, technical stack, growth trajectory

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## Notes

- Be honest about gaps; show learning trajectory
- Concrete specifics > generic claims
- Metrics and outcomes wherever possible
- Tailor slightly for each role (motion planning vs mission control have different emphasis)

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**Tags:** #job-hunt #cv #hexagon #career