Senior Robotics Software Engineer

Mytra; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Fully subsidized health coverage

401(k) plans and life insurance

Fully subsidized meals and snacks

Generous PTO and holidays

Job summary

Mytra's robotics team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop software essential for motion control, task execution, and safety management of our robotic fleet. Work across hardware and software teams, own firmware development, and contribute to real-time embedded systems critical to robot performance.

You will deliver high quality code, implement real-time control features, and drive architectural decisions as software evolves, including prototype integration and beta testing of robots.

Qualifications

• BS in Mechatronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
• Experience with C/C++/Rust and system level environments.
• Strong experience with Python, particularly focused on application and process level development.
• Demonstrated ability to break down complex problems into actionable incremental progress in a CI environment.
• Experience coding in concurrent and multithreaded environments.
• Understanding of electromechanical systems, kinematics, and robotics control.
• Experience with network technologies including CAN, Ethernet, TCP/IP, UDP, and pub/sub frameworks like NATS.
• Understanding of how hardware changes affect robotics software and vice-versa.
• Understanding of Git and software version management.
• Strong knowledge of software design and maintainability patterns.
• Preferred experience in embedded software and/or firmware development.
• Ability to interpret system data to root cause faults and build diagnostics.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality code across many layers of the robotics software stack.
• Implement highly performant and real time code for critical control and safety functions.
• Identify performance, maintainability, and reliability of code changes.
• Contribute to the complete life cycle of software features including definition, implementation, test plan and rollout strategy.
• Assess and contribute to long-term architectural decisions as software evolves.
• Lead and manage integration of initial prototype systems including bring-up, debugging and testing of alpha and beta robots.

Skills

C/C++/Rust

Python

Multithreading

Embedded systems

Git

CAN/Ethernet/TCP-IP

ROS

Linux

Education

BS in Mechatronics Engineering / Electrical / Computer Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Git

ROS

Job description

Mytra's robotics team is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to develop software critical for motion control, task execution, and safety management of our robotic fleet as we scale. You will collaborate closely across multidisciplinary hardware and software teams, own firmware development throughout the product lifecycle, and contribute significantly to real-time embedded systems critical to our robot's performance.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality code across many layers of the robotics software stack
• Implement highly performant and real time code for critical control and safety functions
• Identify performance, maintainability, and reliability of code changes
• Contribute to the complete life cycle of software features including feature definition, implementation, test plan, and roll out strategy
• Assess and contribute to long-term architectural decisions as software evolves
• Lead and manage integration of initial prototype systems including bring-up, debug, and engineering test of alpha and beta phase prototype robots

Qualifications

• BS in Mechatronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
• Experience with C/C++/Rust and system level environments
• Strong experience with Python, particularly focused on application and process level development
• Demonstrated ability to break down complex problems into actionable incremental progress in a continuous integration development environment
• Experience coding in concurrent and multithreaded environments
• Understanding of electromechanical systems, kinematics, and robotics control
• Experience with network communication technologies, including CAN, Ethernet, TCP/IP, UDP, and pub/sub frameworks like NATS
• Understanding of how hardware changes affect robotics software and vice-versa
• Understanding of Git and software version management
• Strong knowledge of software design and maintainability patterns
• Preferred experience in embedded software and/or firmware development
• Ability to fluently interpret system data to root cause logged faults and build robust diagnostic tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Linux operating systems and kernel fundamentals

Benefits Include

• Competitive compensation and equity grants at a high-growth company backed by top-tier VCs
• Fully subsidized health coverage, including medical (baseline plans), dental, and vision for employees and dependents
• 401(k) plans and employer-subsidized life insurance
• Fully subsidized lunch and snacks at HQ-we eat and share stories together at the "long" table
• Generous PTO and company-paid holidays, including one week over the winter break so everyone can recharge together
• Voluntary pet insurance, Voluntary Life Insurance, Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
• Fully subsidized tax advisory services and education to help you understand your equity
• Commuter benefits, including a up to $150 monthly commuter benefit
• Lively, modern combined office and lab space where we rapidly iterate through design, build, and test phases
• Fully equipped onsite gym and showers at headquarters

Compensation for this position will be set based on the candidate's experience level and location. The posted salary band is applicable only to the San Francisco Bay Area and is subject to change.

This role requires on-site presence at our Brisbane, CA headquarters, for close collaboration with the other teams.

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