Robotics Software Engineer II

Wilder Systems•Austin, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Wilder Systems builds robots that do precision work across aerospace manufacturing and MRO — drilling, fastening, sanding, and inspection — on systems deployed to factory floors and flight lines worldwide. As a Robotics Software Engineer II, you'll own real pieces of the software that gets a robot from near the part to working on it, alongside mechanical, controls, and applications engineers on real hardware. You'll be mentored by senior engineers and take on larger parts of the system as you go, at a company small enough that you own real work, not a slice of a backlog.

Requirements

Production C++ and Python for real-time or performance-sensitive systems.
ROS 2 and MoveIt (or a comparable manipulation framework).
Hands-on perception or 3D vision — working with point clouds and/or imagery.
Solid robotics fundamentals: transforms, kinematics, control, state estimation, motion planning.
Real hardware debugging and tuning, not just simulation.
Linux, Git, and Build Systems.
US Citizen or Permanent Resident

Nice To Haves

Field deployment on real robotic platforms — bring-up and tuning.
AWS cloud development using code-first approaches like CDK, serverless or terraform
Fleet management, IOT frameworks and OTA updates.
Telemetry and data pipelines at scale.
NVIDIA Isaac Sim for robot simulation and synthetic data.

Responsibilities

Own pieces of the full pipeline that gets a robot from seeing a part to working on it.
Develop vision pipelines that collect point-cloud and RGB data from depth cameras, 3D scanners, and other sensors.
Extract and localize features (fasteners, holes, edges).
Perform 3D object reconstruction.
Calibrate the system to the accuracy aircraft demand: vision-to-robot (camera intrinsics/extrinsics, hand-eye), drill tips and tooling (tool-center-point, drilling normality), and robot kinematic accuracy and accuracy compensation (e.g., FANUC).
Design and ship manipulation and motion end-to-end, with a MoveIt pipeline for a drilling, fastening, or sanding operation, with collision detection and avoidance, in C++, Python, and ROS 2.
Design the test execution that proves the robot on real hardware, and integrate perception, motion, and controls into a system that holds up outside the lab.
Build and use simulation to develop and validate robot behavior before it runs on hardware.