Software Engineer , Pilots

Brain Corp is a San Diego, California, USA-based AI company creating transformative core technology for the robotics industry. Our purpose is to create autonomous technology that helps the real world work better. Brain’s robotic and AI solutions help retailers ensure that the right product is on the right shelf at the right price, in a clean environment. Through the BrainOS® Robotics Platform, which powers the largest global fleet of the Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) in operation in commercial public spaces, Brain Corp delivers insightful and efficient automated solutions in both commercial floor cleaning and inventory management, empowering organizations and their employees to achieve more.

Brain Corp currently powers more than 30,000 AMRs, representing the largest fleet of its kind in the world. Brain Corp is funded by the Soft Bank Vision Fund, Clearbridge, and Qualcomm Ventures.

As a member of the Customer Engineering team, the Software Engineer will be working on pilots of a newly launched product and will help to solve complex problems in the retail automation space. The performance of our detections and recognitions is foundation to the value we deliver to our customers. As a core member of our engineering team, you will work with our world‑class team of engineers and scientists to build and apply the BrainOS platform for the next generation of intelligent machines.

Your experience will be pivotal in advancing our mission of making the real world work better.

• Build and review performance metrics and dashboards of the production and/or pilot fleet as a key indicator of customer experience, and product performance
• Analyze trends and identify recommendations in product performance for improvements in our model training pipeline and operations
• Develop code and deliver software features/functionality that increases customer value and product scalability
• Increase the agility/ software release frequency of the team and organization through code refactoring, simplification, and removal
• Coordinate with cross‑functional areas of expertise including hardware, firmware, platform, user experience, quality, cloud, autonomy and Applied ML engineering to deliver world‑class customer value
• Remain up to date with developments across platform, AI, autonomy, navigation, and other robots, in order to leverage and contribute towards software innovation across all products

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
• 0‑2 years of demonstrated experience in software development

• Experience writing C++ (11+) and/or Python applications for embedded systems
• Experience building and evaluating computer vision models for object detection and recognition
• Solid understanding of design patterns, data structures, and advanced programming techniques
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in a multiple internal and external stakeholder environment
• Strong analytical skills that enable data‑driven decisions and prioritization
• Experience with soft real‑time and multi‑threaded systems

• Experience designing and developing robotic systems using robotics frameworks, including ROS, and existing libraries and tools
• Experience with path planning, AI algorithms, navigation algorithms, or robot behavior systems
• Experience with continuous integration, deployment and release management tools
• Experience with Agile and Scrum methodology
• Desire to constantly learn, receive and act on feedback, and share knowledge

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Essential functions may require maintaining the physical condition necessary for sitting, walking or standing for periods of time; operating a computer and keyboard;

talk and hear at normal room levels; using hands to finger, grasp, and feel;…