Robotics Software Engineer

Robotics Software, Software Engineering, Simulation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Hardware Quality Assurance, Computer Vision, Problem Solving Skills, Robotics Software, Python Programming/Scripting Language, C++ Programming Language, * 2-8 years in robotics software, strong in Python, with C++ a plus

• You’ve shipped software to physical robot hardware (this is essential)
• Experience in motion planning, kinematics, dynamics or control
• A degree in robotics, CS, EECS, computer, electrical or mechanical engineering
• Bonus: manipulation or pick-and-place work, lab automation, MuJoCo or PyBullet

Want your code running on real robots doing real science, not stuck in simulation?

I’m partnering with a well-funded physical AI company in San Francisco. They’ve built autonomous labs where robot arms run experiments around the clock for drug discovery and gene editing teams. Their engineers come from Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and Amazon, and the founder has a deep AI and robotics research background.

What you’ll do

• Build motion planning and trajectory optimisation for robot arms in busy, changing lab environments
• Ship code that runs on physical hardware, testing across simulation and real robots
• Use computer vision so robots can handle equipment designed for human hands
• Work directly with partner scientists at customer sites to solve their problems