Robotics Software Engineer Autonomous Robots Process Logic. Waite Park, MN
About The Position
We're a Minnesota commercial roofing contractor with 150+ employees, and we're putting autonomous robots on our roofs. Today that's a fleet of three wheeled and tracked rovers hauling tear-off debris, running ROS 2, RTK GPS, lidar, and depth cameras, controlled from an iPhone by a roofing crew. Next, it's robots that load themselves from a moving tear-off machine, deliver to a moving person, and report back to the office — and after that, swappable attachments for other rooftop jobs. You'll own the software for all of it. You'll take a working prototype and make it something a crew with no training can depend on every day.
Requirements
- Years of building software for mobile robots or autonomous vehicles that shipped to real users, not just labs
- Strong ROS 2 experience: Nav2, robot localization or equivalent sensor fusion, behavior trees, launch and lifecycle management
- Python and C++ on Linux; comfortable on embedded compute like NVIDIA Jetson
- Hands-on with GNSS/RTK, lidar, and IMUs, and the practical problems of outdoor localization
- You've debugged a robot in a field with a laptop on your knee and you liked it
- You can explain to a roofer why the robot did what it did
Nice To Haves
- Multi-robot coordination or formation control
- UWB or other short-range relative positioning
- Gazebo or Isaac Sim, and CI for robotics
- Web front-end work (JavaScript, WebSockets/rosbridge)
- Thermal or ruggedization experience for electronics in harsh environments
- Any construction or heavy-equipment background
Responsibilities
- Own the robot codebase end to end navigation, localization, multi-robot coordination, the iPhone interface, and the systems that keep it all running on the robots
- Make centimeter-accurate RTK positioning, heading, and roof-edge boundaries rock solid
- Build robot-to-robot coordination: following, queuing, handoffs at a moving machine
- Integrate hardware: GNSS, UWB, IMUs, load cells, buttons, status lights, and new attachments
- Bring engineering discipline: one codebase, simulation that matches the field, tests, GitHub pull requests, over-the-air updates
- Spend real time on roofs with crews, watch what breaks, and fix it
- Work with AI coding tools daily; we use Claude Code, ChatGPT and others and expect you to use it to move fast
Benefits
- Competitive Wage: DOE
- Health Benefits
- Paid Time Off
- Holiday Pay
- Employer sponsored events
- Company Clothing Store
- Date Night $200.00 reimbursement
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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