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Robotics Software Engineer

Pickle Robot is a low cost, collaborative package handling robot that automates several key tasks along the e-commerce supply chain. Package handling is a physically demanding job with extremely high rates of turnover.…

Location
Charlestown, MA
Company size
50–100
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Robotics Software Engineer · Pickle Robot

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Job title
Robotics Software Engineer
Job location
Charlestown, MA
Job description
About this role:
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.
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

  • Skills and Experience
  • 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; Experience with C++ is a bonus

  • Ownership mentality and bias for action, comfort with ambiguity and physical hardware, intellectual curiosity, and a collaborative, low-ego approach

  • Hybrid — Boston, MA area, with regular on-site work and occasional travel to customer deployment sites

  • Full-time, with occasional schedule flexibility to support on-site deployments and testing

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    Pickle Robot headquarters

    Cambridge, MA

    Company size

    50100 employees

    Founded

    2018

    Total raised

    $102,450,000

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    Funding rounds

    • Series B$50M
    • Series B$15M
    • Series A$26M
    • Seed$5.8M
    • Seed$2M
    • Seed$3.7M