Senior C++ Robotics Engineer - Hybrid + Profit Sharing

Roboticsconnected; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

On-site parking (UK)

Casual dress

Career progression

Profit sharing

Job summary

Fieldwork Robotics in Cambridge is seeking a Senior C++ Software Engineer to advance the robot control software used on autonomous raspberry-picking platforms. You will work at the intersection of robot control, perception, planning, and real-time systems, turning vision and ML outputs into reliable physical actions.

You'll collaborate across hardware, software, and operations to ship production-grade solutions that meet commercial targets, with a hybrid Cambridge-based role and opportunities to

Qualifications

• Experience writing modern C++ in production systems.
• Experience with ROS2 and ROS2 Control in real robotic platforms.
• Strong mathematics and software engineering fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy high-performance modern C++ 20 software for production autonomous raspberry-picking robots.
• Build robot control systems using ROS2 and ROS2 Control with hardware drivers, actuators and sensors.
• Translate perception outputs into actionable robot behaviour for real-world operation.
• Develop algorithms for fruit tracking, state estimation, path and trajectory planning, and obstacle avoidance.
• Log performance data and build diagnostics to improve reliability, speed, and yield.
• Collaborate with robotics, vision, ML, mechanical, electronics, and operations teams to ship integrated solutions.

Skills

Modern C++

ROS2

ROS2 Control

Perception integration

Motion planning

Real-time systems

Robotics software

Tools

Docker

GitLab

Jira

ROS2 Control

Job description

Fieldwork Robotics in Cambridge is seeking a Senior C++ Software Engineer to advance the robot control software used on autonomous raspberry-picking platforms. You will work at the intersection of robot control, perception, planning, and real-time systems, turning vision and ML outputs into reliable physical actions.

You'll collaborate across hardware, software, and operations to ship production-grade solutions that meet commercial targets, with a hybrid Cambridge-based role and opportunities to