Robotics Software Engineer

Responsibilities

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• Design and develop production-quality software that plans how a robot arm and base moves through a trailer packed with boxes, bags, and whatever else got thrown in.
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• Build and maintain the infrastructure to run, benchmark, and deploy planning algorithms across our fleet's varying compute platforms.
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• Partner with the simulation team to build simulation CI pipelines that validate planner behavior and catch regressions before every deployment to real robots
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• Own features end-to-end from prototype to field deployment, debugging and tuning on real hardware at customer sites
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• Write production-grade software with Python and C++, meeting strict reliability, latency, and timing requirements for safety-critical operation
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• Collaborate with perception, hardware, firmware, and deployment teams, and mentor junior engineers while upholding engineering best practices

Skills and Experience

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• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience building robotics, planning and control for AMRs or Mobile Manipulator robots
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• Hands-on experience developing and deploying classical motion planning algorithms, or ML based planning methods for real-world robots or other safety-critical, real-time systems
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• Strong written and verbal communication; able to explain complex technical tradeoffs to cross-functional partners. Professional fluency in English
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• Proficiency in Python; Experience with C++ is a bonus
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• Ownership mentality and bias for action, comfort with ambiguity and physical hardware, intellectual curiosity, and a collaborative, low-ego approach
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• Hybrid — Boston, MA area, with regular on-site work and occasional travel to customer deployment sites
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• Full-time, with occasional schedule flexibility to support on-site deployments and testing