Senior Robotics Software Engineer (Full Stack)

Location/Eligibility: This is a contract position based in Massachusetts. You must be able to commute to the Wilmington area onsite at least 3 days a week. For this contract, there is no visa sponsorship available.

We are seeking a Senior Robotics Software Engineer (Full Stack) to contribute broadly across our entire autonomous navigation and manipulation stack. In this role, you will work closely with our core team to design, build, and debug features that directly control how our robots perceive, navigate, and interact with the physical world. If you are an adaptable developer who loves moving from high-level autonomy logic down to physical hardware bring-up, you will thrive in this high-velocity environment.

Core Responsibilities

• Full-Stack Feature Development: Design, implement, and test new capabilities across the core robotics software stack using ROS 2 in both C++ and Python.

• Navigation & Manipulation: Contribute to the development and tuning of motion planning, localized navigation, and robotic manipulation pipelines.

• System Integration: Collaborate with specialized middleware and infrastructure engineers to integrate machine learning models, sensor streams, and hardware drivers.

• Triage & Debugging: Diagnose, debug, and resolve complex system-level software issues both in simulation environments and on live physical robots.

Technical Requirements (Must-Have)

• Robotics Domain Experience: Proven track record of developing software for autonomous systems or robotic platforms.

• ROS 2 Proficiency: Strong, hands-on development experience within the ROS 2 ecosystem.

• Polyglot Coding: Fluency in Modern C++ and/or Python, along with clean coding practices and solid algorithm design.

• Linux Environment: Comfortable working, debugging, and profiling software within a Linux (Ubuntu) environment.

Preferred Qualifications (Nice-to-Have)

• Real Robot Deployment: Extensive experience with hardware bring-up and testing software on real, physical robots (not just running algorithms in simulation).

• Specialized Robotics Modules: Familiarity with modern perception, classic/advanced control theory, or machine learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch).

• Sensor Integration: Experience interfacing with sensors common to robotics like LiDAR, IMUs, or RGBD/Stereo cameras.

Are you the right fit?

You are a highly adaptable engineer who doesn't say "that's not my department." You are equally comfortable writing highly optimized C++ code, writing quick Python test scripts, or grabbing a screwdriver to check a sensor connection on the physical platform. You thrive in a high-velocity environment where your code directly affects physical machines moving in the real world.