Senior Software Engineer, Robotic Manipulation

About The Job

Berkshire Grey is a leader in the field of AI and robotics, providing innovative solutions for e-commerce, retail replenishment, and logistics. Our technology automates complex pick, pack, and sort operations.

In the role of Senior Software Engineer, Robotics, focusing on manipulation, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the capabilities of our robotic solutions. Your work will involve developing advanced software that enables robots to interact with their environments in completing complex, real-world tasks.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support advanced robotic manipulation software deployed in production environments.
• Create high-performance software solutions for robotic manipulation, focusing on motion planning, kinematics, control strategies and motion execution, to enhance our robotic solutions.
• Utilize and extend simulation software environments to test and refine manipulation development, ensuring expected and robust performance.
• Work closely with hardware engineers, product managers, and other software teams to integrate capabilities into our broader robotic systems.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers.
• Clearly and proactively communicate technical priorities and status.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Computer Science, or a closely related field.
• 4+ years of professional software development experience in a production environment.
• Strong development expertise in Python.
• Understanding parallel/distributed systems and asynchronous/concurrent programming.
• Experience in designing and implementing software and algorithms for motion planning, motion execution, multi-arm coordination, robotic kinematics, and/or environment representation.
• Experience in designing and developing RESTful interfaces, gRPC services/clients, etc.
• Familiarity with system design principles and design patterns.
• Strong drive to deliver well-designed, well-implemented and well-tested solutions to meet internal and external requirements.
• Ability to handle ambiguous or ill-defined problems, and scope, plan and implement solutions for them.
• Experience with version control (Git), code reviews, issue tracking (Jira) and automated testing (unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop).
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team setting and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Robotics, Computer Science or a closely related field.
• 6+ years of experience in software development in a production environment.
• Experience with ROS/ROS2.
• Experience with development and integration of drivers for robotic hardware, particularly robotic arms.
• Familiarity with robotics simulation tools and test environments.
• Familiarity with the Linux ecosystem.
• Familiarity with Python’s asyncio library.
• Programming experience in C++.
• Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB).

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