Robotics Software Engineer

Pickle Robot Company • Charlestown, MA

15h • Hybrid

About The Position

Pickle is on the hunt for a dynamic and driven Robotics Software Engineer to revolutionize the future of warehouse automation. You will design, build, and productionize the motion planning software that lets our robots navigate, plan collision-free arm and base motion, and unload trucks in real time on live loading docks. This is a hands-on, end-to-end role where you will take planning algorithms from prototype to reliable production behavior on real hardware at customer sites, build the infrastructure to run and evaluate them across our fleet's varying compute platforms, and work with the simulation team to validate every change in simulation CI before it ever touches a robot.

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience building robotics, planning and control for AMRs or Mobile Manipulator robots
• Hands-on experience developing and deploying classical motion planning algorithms, or ML based planning methods for real-world robots or other safety-critical, real-time systems
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to explain complex technical tradeoffs to cross-functional partners.
• Professional fluency in English
• Proficiency in Python
• Ownership mentality and bias for action, comfort with ambiguity and physical hardware, intellectual curiosity, and a collaborative, low-ego approach

Nice To Haves

• Experience with C++ is a bonus

Responsibilities

• Design and develop production-quality software that plans how a robot arm and base moves through a trailer packed with boxes, bags, and whatever else got thrown in.
• Build and maintain the infrastructure to run, benchmark, and deploy planning algorithms across our fleet's varying compute platforms.
• Partner with the simulation team to build simulation CI pipelines that validate planner behavior and catch regressions before every deployment to real robots
• Own features end-to-end from prototype to field deployment, debugging and tuning on real hardware at customer sites
• Write production-grade software with Python and C++, meeting strict reliability, latency, and timing requirements for safety-critical operation
• Collaborate with perception, hardware, firmware, and deployment teams, and mentor junior engineers while upholding engineering best practices

Benefits

• health, dental, & vision insurance
• unlimited vacation
• all federal and state holidays
• 401K contributions of 5% your salary
• travel supplies
• other items to make your working life more fun, comfortable, and productive

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed