Robotics Engineer (Controls)

Fresh Consulting • Bellevue, WA

4d • $100,000 - $115,000

About The Position

Fresh Consulting is a design-led, software development and hardware engineering company, offering end-to-end digital services to help companies innovate. We bring together amazing UX designers, sophisticated developers, digital strategists, and top-notch engineers to help companies create fresh experiences that connect humans, systems, and machines. At Fresh Consulting, we strive to hire a workforce representative of the communities we serve, understanding that a diverse workforce strengthens our organization. We value diversity and support a positive and welcoming environment where all of our employees can thrive.

We are tech industry veterans in software, hardware, strategy, and design who are pooling our skills to build the future we want to live in. We are solving real-world problems for people by leveraging robotics, machine learning, and computer vision, among other technologies, with an eye toward the end-to-end user experience. Our teams are agile, diverse, and driven. We believe that the best way to solve complicated, dynamic problems is collaboratively and respectfully. Most of all, we were built from the start as a modern, high-performance services partner that puts people — from our employees to our partners to our clients to their customers, first.

The Fresh Consulting hardware and robotics team is working with customers to build and deploy fleets of robots into the field. Join us and help to build new state of the art software for both robots and the hardware backends that support them.

In this role, you will combine your passion and enthusiasm for robotics, open-source software and hardware technologies. You will work alongside Fresh customers and partners to build solutions, identify industry wide technical trends and help guide strategic technical decision making for the Fresh robotics team.

The ideal candidate will have experience with robotics engineering, controls theory, robot simulation, Robotic Operation System and Software development on edge. Excellent business and communication skills are a must to develop and define key business questions and to build data sets that answer open questions. You should be able to work well with clients to understand the business requirements and relevant solution paths.

Requirements

• BS/MS in controls engineering, robotics, computer science, or relevant fields.
• 2-5 years professional experience in robotics and robotics applications, with 2+ years developing controls software
• Has experience with control systems development including but not limited to: Classical and modern control theory, Feedback control, state estimation and system identification, Modeling, simulation and analysis of complex dynamical systems and sensors, Sensor fusion (e.g. IMU, GPS, LIDAR, RADAR), Implementation of control algorithms on hardware systems.
• Extensive experience in C++/Python programming, software design and architecture, and a history of having successfully driven projects to completion.
• Strong understanding of design patterns and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) - concurrency and real-time programming.
• Experience developing, simulating, and deploying solutions on mobile robots and robotic arms.
• Excellent understanding of ROS (Robot Operating System), including ROS2 Control.
• Experience developing software in a Linux environment.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Experience deploying algorithms for path-planning for one or more agents, SLAM in a dynamic environment, verification and validation of autonomous behaviors.

Responsibilities

• Strong contributor on technical engagements with partners and customers. This includes participating in pre-sales on-site visits, understanding customer requirements, helping create consulting proposals and creating packaged Robotics service offerings.
• Work alongside the Fresh Robotics team, mapping individual goals into company efforts and align them with current technology roadmaps
• Integrate architectures and solutions into a cohesive product roadmap in partnership with Product Management, identifying risks and leading project success.
• Ensure that features and deliverables meet and exceed quality requirements across products
• Define, analyze and review software requirements to meet defined and anticipated customer needs and system quality and performance standards.
• Design software architecture and interfaces and implement functionality, typically using a model-based approach.
• Collaborate with other engineering disciplines in planning design and development of systems to ensure software and hardware performance and compatibility.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level