# Senior Motion Controls & Robotics Software Engineer

Give hope. Give health. Make your mark in the fight against cancer. At Accuray, we make a direct and powerful impact on the lives of cancer patients every day - helping them live longer, better lives. But our commitment to innovation offers a truly unique opportunity: the chance to change the fight against cancer - helping to develop, introduce and support new treatment delivery systems and software that will give new hope and new health to cancer patients and cancer survivors around the world. Accuray develops, manufactures and sells radiotherapy systems for alternative cancer treatments. Our radiation therapy for cancer makes treatment shorter, safer, personalized and more effective, ultimately enabling patients to live longer, better lives. Job Description Summary: The Motion Controls & Robotics Software Engineer is responsible for the research, planning, design, implementation, and verification of software that controls critical electro-mechanical and robotic motion mechanisms contributing to the function and performance of Accuray’s radiation therapy products. This is a software-forward motion control role for candidates with demonstrated experience developing software that in

- **Id**: 475503
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/accuray-motion-controls-robotics-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Robotics
- **Role family**: Robotics
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Madison, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-21T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-02
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T03:18:56Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 79
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9386
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Industrial Automation, Surgical Instruments & Devices

## Company

- **Id**: 176328
- **Name**: Accuray
- **Domain**: accuray.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/accuray>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 118000
- **Max usd**: 237000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 220

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **FMEA** — Optional: no
- **Knowledge Distillation** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Model Distillation** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **RTOS** — Optional: no
- **SolidWorks** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 79

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-06T14:28:57Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 5 · green card filings: 1; Filings 12m: 5

## Liveness

- **Score**: 34
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.76
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 78
- **Expected fill days**: 46
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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