Senior​/Robotics SW Engineer

Senior/Staff Robotics SW Engineer – San Francisco – An ambitious Robotics start up

An ambitious Robotics start up based out of San Francisco are looking for a proven Robotics SW Engineer who enjoys solving real-world solutions, working at the intersection of software, electronics, and mechanical systems. This individual will be responsible for driving development of core systems including improved sensing, control, and infrastructure software.

• End-to-end design and implementation for specific features, including motion planning and control SW, sensing and localization systems.
• Increase the robustness & resiliency of robotics software, maintain as well as tune ROS2-based robotics infrastructure
• Support system integration, test, and debugging; participate in demonstrations and pilot deployments
• cross-functional requirements gathering, rapid prototyping to prove concepts, the development of automated tests, using and enhancing simulation environments, and simulation at scale to prove performance.

• Experience writing software that works with hardware
• 5+ years professional experience building and shipping production-quality software, with a focus on Linux
• Experience developing software in the areas of motion planning and control for robotics or comparable complex electromechanical systems.
• Experience with object manipulation and sensing/perception, localization/state estimation.
• System design experience.
• Demonstrated production level C++, Python (automated testing, Git, CI, Docker, K8s, etc)