Senior Robotics Software Engineer – Manipulation

Maxwell Bond; Boston; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Maxwell Bond is seeking a Senior Software Engineer focused on robotic manipulation within production environments. You will develop software enabling robots to perform complex physical tasks, with emphasis on manipulation algorithms, motion planning, and multi-arm coordination.

Collaborate across software, hardware and product teams; contribute to robust, well-tested production robotics software, and mentor junior engineers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Computer Science, or a closely related field.
• At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience, preferably involving production systems.
• Strong practical experience developing software in Python.
• Experience with asynchronous, concurrent, parallel, or distributed systems.
• Experience implementing robotics software or algorithms involving motion planning, kinematics, manipulation, and coordination.
• Experience creating or working with service interfaces (REST APIs, gRPC).
• Familiarity with software architecture, system design methodologies, and design patterns.
• Ability to tackle loosely defined problems and deliver complete implementations.
• Experience with maintainable, robust, and thoroughly tested software.
• Familiarity with Git, code reviews, testing.

Responsibilities

• Develop software enabling robotic manipulation in production environments.
• Implement algorithms for motion planning, robot kinematics, motion execution, control, and multi-arm coordination.
• Improve performance, reliability, and robustness of robotic systems performing complex tasks.
• Develop software capable of interfacing with robotic hardware.
• Use simulations to validate manipulation algorithms before and during deployment.
• Coordinate robotic capabilities with larger software and hardware systems.
• Develop services and interfaces for robotics applications.
• Contribute to architectural and system-design decisions; mentor junior engineers.
• Communicate plans, trade-offs, priorities, and progress across teams.

Skills

Python

ROS/ROS2

C++

Motion planning

Distributed systems

REST gRPC

Git & Testing

Mentorship

Communication

Education

Bachelor in Robotics or CS

Master’s preferred

Tools

MongoDB

Job description

Maxwell Bond is seeking a Senior Software Engineer focused on robotic manipulation within production environments. You will develop software enabling robots to perform complex physical tasks, with emphasis on manipulation algorithms, motion planning, and multi-arm coordination.

Collaborate across software, hardware and product teams; contribute to robust, well-tested production robotics software, and mentor junior engineers.