Senior Robotics Software Architect - AI for Manufacturing

Promise Robotics; Edmonton, Calgary; Remote; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Purpose-Driven Work

Growth Opportunities

Cutting-Edge Technology

Collaborative Culture

Job summary

Promise Robotics in Canada is building physical AI for housing, with robots already in production across multiple factories, generating real operational data daily.

We seek a Senior Robotics Software Developer to own software architecture, mentor engineers, and advance simulation, perception, and motion planning using ROS 2 and MoveIt2, while collaborating with hardware teams onsite in Edmonton and Calgary.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Mechatronics, or related fields; Masters/Ph.D. preferred.
• 5+ years of relevant robotics software experience.
• Expert-level C++ and Python; production-quality robotics software.
• Strong fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.
• Deep ROS 2 and MoveIt2 experience.
• Hands-on experience with a robotics simulator (Gazebo, Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, or similar).
• Exposure to computer vision or perception concepts.
• Willingness to work onsite at our R&D labs and production facilities in Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of robotics simulators - set up and extend environment and test scenarios that mirror production cells.
• Lead the effort in motion planning and optimization - develop and optimize motion-planning and collision-checking behaviors in ROS 2 / MoveIt2.
• Develop perception components - implement object detection, pose estimation, and point-cloud processing tasks.
• Write clean, tested code - produce well-documented C++ and Python, backed by unit and integration tests.
• Debug integration issues - help troubleshoot software-hardware issues with robotics and hardware teams.
• Set the engineering bar - define standards for architecture, testing, and code quality; lead code reviews; mentor junior developers.

Skills

C++

Python

ROS 2

MoveIt2

Robot simulators

Motion planning

Perception

Debugging hardware-software

Team mentoring

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/Robotics

Tools

Gazebo

Isaac Sim / Omniverse

MuJoCo

OpenVLA

OMPL

CHOMP

TrajOpt

Job description

Promise Robotics in Canada is building physical AI for housing, with robots already in production across multiple factories, generating real operational data daily.

We seek a Senior Robotics Software Developer to own software architecture, mentor engineers, and advance simulation, perception, and motion planning using ROS 2 and MoveIt2, while collaborating with hardware teams onsite in Edmonton and Calgary.