Software Engineer

Carnegie Robotics•Pittsburgh, PA

47d

About The Position

As a Software Engineer, you will be collaborating with an interdisciplinary team focusing on developing reliable robotic and automation systems for a wide range of real-world commercial products and R&D applications. This can take the form of developing onboard software for a custom camera system, building custom loggers to saturate the write speed of a NVME drive, architecting high-performance middleware infrastructure, or building custom release images optimized for OTA updates.

Requirements

Demonstrated track record of strong personal accountability and initiative; excels in autonomous, low-supervision environments
A deep understanding of C++ and Python, with specific experience using PyTorch and libtorch for modern robotics applications
A track record of real-world deployment of autonomous systems—you’ve seen what happens when code hits the dirt
A builder/maker mentality that has excelled in a technical discipline and is now looking to tackle the challenges of product development in the nascent world of robotics
Written and presentation skills required to communicate to external customers and internally to teammates

Nice To Haves

A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
Experience in defense-related government contracting

Responsibilities

Making significant contributions by developing high-performance software infrastructure including message serialization, IPC, process management, and logging
Catching and debugging the failure cases using debuggers like GDB, pdb, and valgrind
Optimizing software using profiling tools like perf and Callgrind, and writing custom CUDA kernels to squeeze every bit of performance out of the GPU
Leveraging the knowledge of multiple computer languages (C, C++, Python, Rust, Go, etc.) to solve the problem at hand
Applying a solid background in 3D geometry, computer vision, and robot kinematics—you should be comfortable navigating transformation matrices and kinematic chains
Handling geospatial data, georeferencing, and coordinate systems to ensure our systems know exactly where they are in the world
Getting hands-on with point cloud data to help our robots perceive their environment in 3D
Being a team player by providing constructive feedback on GitHub pull requests and being open to feedback on your own contributions
Contributing to, and potentially maintaining, open-source projects
Coordinating and collaborating with other internal departments when necessary such as test technicians, manufacturing, and production