Founding Robotics Software Engineer: Real-World Autonomy

Maxwell Bond; Boston; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Maxwell Bond is seeking a Founding Robotics Software Engineer to help build the robotics software stack from the ground up. You will own broad portions of the stack, from perception to motion planning, and see your code run on physical robots in real environments.

You’ll write production software in C++ and Python, develop low-latency telemetry systems and deploy robotics capabilities across edge hardware. This is a hands-on early-stage role with direct hardware exposure and rapid feedback.

Qualifications

• Background in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field.
• Experience deploying robots or autonomous systems in high-reliability environments.
• Exceptional C++ and Python skills with performance optimisation.
• Strong systems-level thinking with incomplete information.
• Experience with containerisation, DevOps, edge computing or cloud infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with robotics sensors (LiDAR, RGB-D cameras, IMUs).
• Knowledge of localisation, state estimation, controls and motion planning.

Responsibilities

• Build core robotics software enabling autonomous systems to operate reliably in real-world environments.
• Work across layers of the robotics stack per project needs.
• Develop production-grade C++ and Python with strong testing practices.
• Design low-latency logging, telemetry, monitoring and observability frameworks.
• Profile and optimise robotics algorithms for edge deployment.
• Develop and integrate perception, localisation, state estimation, control and motion planning.
• Work with sensors like LiDAR, RGB-D cameras and IMUs.
• Support deployments and diagnose field issues.
• Collaborate across software, hardware and systems engineering to solve integration problems.
• Contribute to architecture and engineering standards of the robotics platform.

Skills

C++

Python

Robotics

Perception

Localization

Motion planning

ROS

Edge computing

DevOps

LiDAR

IMU

ML for perception

Education

Master's degree in robotics

Tools

ROS

Docker

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Maxwell Bond is seeking a Founding Robotics Software Engineer to help build the robotics software stack from the ground up. You will own broad portions of the stack, from perception to motion planning, and see your code run on physical robots in real environments.

You’ll write production software in C++ and Python, develop low-latency telemetry systems and deploy robotics capabilities across edge hardware. This is a hands-on early-stage role with direct hardware exposure and rapid feedback.