Robotics Software Engineer

Robotics Software Engineer – Contract

Location:

London – Hybrid / Remote

Duration: 3 months

Rate:
Flexible

Sector:
Robotics & Automation

An innovative robotics and automation business is looking for a Robotics Software Engineer to join its engineering team on an initial 3‑month contract.

You’ll work across a modern ROS2 Jazzy robotics software stack, developing and deploying software that controls industrial robotic systems used in real‑world manufacturing environments.

This is an opportunity for a strong software engineer with practical robotics exposure to work alongside robotics developers, controls engineers and product engineers, with your work being deployed directly onto physical robotic systems.

• Develop and deliver features across a ROS2 Jazzy robotics software stack.
• Design modular, testable and well‑documented software components.
• Diagnose and resolve complex system issues using field data, simulation and real hardware testing.
• Reproduce bugs and validate features directly on physical robotic systems.
• Develop robust solutions to real‑world edge cases and integration challenges.
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain high engineering standards.
• Contribute to developer tooling, engineering processes and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate closely with software, robotics, controls and product engineering teams.

• Proven experience developing and maintaining production software, including testing, CI/CD and debugging existing code.
• Strong Python software engineering skills applied to robotics or other complex software systems.
• Practical experience with ROS2, including nodes, topics, services, actions, parameters, launch and composition.
• Strong Linux skills, including shell, systemd, networking and containers.
• Ability to work effectively within a distributed engineering team and quickly become productive within an existing codebase.
• Experience working with physical hardware, robotics or automation environments is highly desirable.

C++ experience is advantageous but not essential.

• Working within a large or established software codebase.
• Docker‑based development and deployment.
• Behaviour trees or similar approaches for orchestrating long‑running robotic tasks.
• Software integration with physical hardware such as controllers, sensors or industrial equipment.
• Simulation environments such as Isaac Sim, Gazebo or similar.
• Industrial robotic arms, motion planning or manufacturing automation.
• DDS configuration and multi‑machine ROS2 networking.
• Structured logging, metrics and record/replay tooling.
• Embedded Linux and edge‑computing platforms such as NVIDIA Jetson.

• Initial 3‑month contract with immediate impact.
• Opportunity to work on real‑world robotics and automation technology.
• Exposure to a modern robotics stack incorporating ROS2, industrial robots, edge compute and physical AI.
• Collaborative environment working alongside experienced robotics, software and controls engineers.
• Hybrid/remote flexibility, with on‑site working in East London preferred.
• The opportunity to see your software deployed directly onto physical robotic systems.