Robotics Software Engineer II

Position:Robotics Software Engineer II

Location: Austin, Tx

Wilder Systems builds robots that do precision work across aerospace manufacturing and MRO — drilling, fastening, sanding, and inspection — on systems deployed to factory floors and flight lines worldwide. As a Robotics Software Engineer II, you'll own real pieces of the software that gets a robot from
* near the part
* to
* working on it*, alongside mechanical, controls, and applications engineers on real hardware. You'll be mentored by senior engineers and take on larger parts of the system as you go, at a company small enough that you own real work, not a slice of a backlog.

You’ll own pieces of the full pipeline that gets a robot from seeing a part to working on it:

• Vision pipelines — develop the vision pipelines that collect point-cloud and RGB data from depth cameras, 3D scanners, and other sensors. extract and localize features (fasteners, holes, edges). 3D object reconstruction.
• Calibration — calibrate the system to the accuracy aircraft demand: vision-to-robot (camera intrinsics/extrinsics, hand-eye), drill tips and tooling (tool-center-point, drilling normality), and robot kinematic accuracy and accuracy compensation (e.g., FANUC).
• Motion & Path Planning — design and ship manipulation and motion end-to-end, with a Move It pipeline for a drilling, fastening, or sanding operation, with collision detection and avoidance, in C++, Python, and ROS 2.
• Test execution & integration — design the test execution that proves the robot on real hardware, and integrate perception, motion, and controls into a system that holds up outside the lab.
• Simulation — build and use simulation to develop and validate robot behavior before it runs on hardware.

• Production C++ and Python for real-time or performance-sensitive systems.
• ROS 2 and Move It (or a comparable manipulation framework).
• Hands‑on perception or 3D vision — working with point clouds and/or imagery.
• Solid robotics fundamentals: transforms, kinematics, control, state estimation, motion planning.
• Real hardware debugging and tuning, not just simulation.
• Linux, Git, and Build Systems.

• Field deployment on real robotic platforms — bring‑up and tuning.
• AWS cloud development using code‑first approaches like CDK, serverless or terraform
• Fleet management, IOT frameworks and OTA updates.
• Telemetry and data pipelines at scale.
• NVIDIA Isaac Sim for robot simulation and synthetic data.

Wilder Systems designs, manufactures, and installs robotic systems for industrial manufacturing applications in the aerospace industry. Our tools are used in direct manufacturing and maintenance of aerospace structures, operating as a growing global fleet on factory floors and flight lines worldwide. We have a dynamic, talented, and collaborative engineering team and want those who are energized by solving our customers' toughest problems.

Compensation
$120,000-$140,000 Base

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• PTO

General Requirements US Citizen or Permanent Resident

Travel Up to 25%