Senior Robotics Engineer

Job Title: Senior Robotics Engineer
Department: Robotics Software Engineering

• Design, implement and maintain production-quality robotics software for humanoid and mobile-manipulation systems.
• Develop and integrate motion planning, trajectory generation, whole-body control, manipulation, state estimation and robot coordination components.

• Bring up new hardware and capabilities, integrating actuators, sensors, compute, communications and safety systems into a coherent robot platform.
• Create robust interfaces between classical robotics, learned policies, perception and product-level task execution.
• Build real-time and near-real-time systems with clear performance budgets for latency, frequency, determinism and resource use.

• Diagnose difficult system failures across software, controls, electronics, mechanics, calibration and networking using evidence and disciplined root-cause analysis.

• Develop simulation, hardware-in-the-loop and on-robot tests; establish regression coverage and release criteria for new robot capabilities.
• Improve reliability, observability, fault handling, recovery and safe degradation for robots operating in pilot environments.

• Lead substantial technical projects from design through integration and field validation; write clear design documentation and make sound architecture trade-offs.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate closely with hardware, AI, perception, product and field operations teams.
• Performs other duties or takes on specialized responsibilities as assigned.

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• Strong professional experience building software for physical robots or complex autonomous systems, including substantial hands-on hardware integration.
• Excellent modern C++ and Python skills, with a high bar for code quality, testing, debugging and maintainability.
• Deep practical knowledge in several relevant areas such as kinematics, dynamics, control, motion planning, manipulation, state estimation, calibration or sensor fusion.
• Experience with ROS/ROS 2 and the surrounding robotics development, visualisation, logging and deployment ecosystem.
• Understanding of real-time systems, concurrency, networking and Linux-based robot compute environments.
• Ability to reason about the whole system and isolate faults that cross software and hardware boundaries.
• Track record of independently leading technically ambiguous work through integration and on-robot validation.
• Strong collaboration and communication across software, mechanical, electrical, AI and operational disciplines.

• Humanoid robots, legged systems, dual-arm manipulation or contact-rich whole-body behaviours.
• Torque, impedance or model-predictive control; optimisation-based planning; collision checking and trajectory optimisation.
• Real-time Linux, EtherCAT, CAN, DDS or other robot communications and fieldbus technologies.
• Simulation and digital-twin platforms such as Mu Jo Co , Isaac Sim, Drake, Gazebo or equivalent tools.
• Functional safety concepts, hazard analysis, runtime monitoring and safe-state design for autonomous machines.
• CI/CD for robotics, fleet software release, remote diagnostics and field observability.
• Deploying and supporting robots in customer or pilot environments.

• A PhD or degree in robotics, computer science, electrical or mechanical engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least three years' relevant work experience.

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