Senior Robotic Software Developer

Rockwell Automation•Waterloo, ON

2d•CA$100,000 - CA$150,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Robotic Software Developer, you will emphasize platform-level ownership, including system architecture, deployment workflows, and ensuring reproducibility and reliability across development and on-robot environments. In this role, you will work at the intersection of research and real-world deployment, helping bring advanced robotics capabilities into industry applications. You will be responsible for the integration of mobile manipulators, combining autonomous mobile robots with robotic manipulators to enable complex industrial tasks. This role is ideal for engineers who thrive in system-level, enjoy working across the full robotics stack, and want to see their work deployed and operating continuously on physical systems.

Requirements

Experience integrating complex robotic systems across multiple subsystems
Strong understanding of software-hardware interfaces and real-world system constraints
Familiarity with robot kinematics, motion planning, or control systems
Understanding of distributed systems, networking, and inter-process communication
Experience building and maintaining deployment workflows and pipelines
Familiarity with containerization and environment management
Experience with CI/CD tools and reproducible build systems
Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to debug issues across a complex system
Experience diagnosing issues across software, hardware, and networking boundaries
Familiarity with profiling, tracing, and performance analysis tools
Experience building tools or systems for automated diagnostics and monitoring
Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Years of Relevant Work Experience
Legal authorization to work in Canada is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

Nice To Haves

Typically requires 5+ years of related experience.
Strong programming skills in C++ and Python, with experience in Linux-based systems
Strong understanding of software engineering principles, including testing, versioning, and code quality
Familiarity with concurrency, performance optimization, and memory management.
Experience with ROS and ROS 2 ecosystems.
3+ years of experience with mobile manipulators and autonomous mobile robots
Familiarity with digital twin or simulation-driven development workflows
3+ years of experience with Intel, NVIDIA and ARM platforms
3+ years of experience with real-time systems

Responsibilities

Lead architecture design for platform-level systems, defining interfaces, abstractions, and long-term evolution strategy; Drive integration strategies across heterogeneous subsystems and environments; Design for fault tolerance, graceful degradation, and recovery in real-world systems.
Design and maintain deployment workflows and CI/CD pipelines for robotics applications; Ensure reproducibility across development, simulation, and physical system environments; Manage software lifecycle, versioning, and release processes for deployed systems.
Improve overall system reliability, stability, and operational readiness; Investigate and resolve system-level issues spanning software, hardware, and networking; Define and implement observability strategies; Develop tools to analyze system performance and identify bottlenecks.
Work closely with our research team to apply modern robotics research, such as motion planning, perception, and manipulation, to real-world robotic systems; Evaluate new technologies and approaches through prototyping, benchmarking, and validation; Identify risks and trade-offs when integrating new capabilities into existing platforms.