Founding Software Engineer - Autonomy Systems

Implement autonomy modules: Implement reliable, production-quality components that give our robots a coherent understanding of their 3D environment.

Debug cross-module failures: Use diagnostic tools like visualization, logs, and real robot data to diagnose failures of a complex robotics system.

Manage system tradeoffs: Make practical engineering decisions across accuracy, latency, compute, robustness, and real-time robot behavior.

Test on real robots: Use hardware experiments and field data to evaluate performance, identify failure modes, and improve the autonomy reliability.

• Strong C++ and Python skills: you write robust, production-quality robotics software.
• You have deployed and tested on physical robots and sensors in the real world, not just simulation.
• Solid robotics fundamentals with hands-on experience in perception, planning, or manipulation.
• You understand how autonomy modules interact in a real robot system and can reason about tradeoffs across accuracy, latency, robustness, and compute.
• Familiar with ROS2 or similar middleware.

Sancho Robotics builds general-purpose mobile manipulators for advanced manufacturing. Our work was featured in the opening of the NVIDIA GTC 2026 keynote. Backed by $7 million in funding, our team has won multiple best-paper awards at top robotics conferences such as RSS and IROS and brings a decade of real-world robotics deployment experience.