Robotics Software Engineer — Mission-Critical Ocean Ops

Oshen; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

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Job summary

Oshen in Plymouth is seeking a generalist software engineer to work across the stack, touching live robots, missions and factory tools.

You will collaborate with robot engineers, operators and scientists to build reliable services, planning interfaces and production tools that scale as the fleet grows. This role rewards curiosity, pragmatic engineering and rapid learning across the stack.

Qualifications

• Strong programming fundamentals and the ability to learn quickly across the stack.
• Experience with Node.js, web applications, SQL and cloud services (AWS).
• Familiarity with data visualisation or robotics/embedded systems is a plus.
• Interest in building reliable software used in live missions and production settings.

Responsibilities

• Build software across the stack: mission planning, data services, and control interfaces.
• Collaborate with robot engineers, operators, scientists and customers.
• Deliver features or automation that saves manual work and improves reliability.
• Maintain Node.js services and AWS infrastructure with good logging.
• Contribute to production tooling for fleet operations and testing.
• Design APIs, data models and schemas for sensor data arriving intermittently.

Skills

Node.js

Web apps

SQL

AWS

Data viz

Robotics/Embedded

Job description

Oshen in Plymouth is seeking a generalist software engineer to work across the stack, touching live robots, missions and factory tools.

You will collaborate with robot engineers, operators and scientists to build reliable services, planning interfaces and production tools that scale as the fleet grows. This role rewards curiosity, pragmatic engineering and rapid learning across the stack.