Senior Software Engineer - Robotics

Dyson Operations Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in robotics is seeking a Software Engineer to join their Upstream Robotics Software & DevOps team in Singapore. The role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining software components to support innovative robotics solutions. Candidates should possess strong C++ programming skills and experience with real-time systems. This position offers opportunities for collaboration with design engineers and contributions to advanced development practices.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience with robotic systems.
• Strong programming skills in C++ and knowledge of Python.
• Experience in high-level software stack management.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain components of software platform using C++ and Python.
• Integrate third-party components and document software workflows.
• Mentor junior team members and foster a collaborative environment.

Skills

C++

Python

Linux Systems

CI/CD

Problem Analysis

Education

Degree in Engineering or Equivalent

Tools

ROS 2

NVIDIA Jetson

ONNXRuntime

MuJoCo

Job description

About the role

As a member of Upstream Robotics Software & DevOps team, you'll design, implement, maintain, and extend components of our software platform, support its users, integrate new functionality, and proof-of-concept applications. You'll collaborate closely with team members, Upstream design and research engineers, and Downstream colleagues. This role offers an opportunity to play a key part in improving architecture, practices, and tooling to accelerate research and development, bridge the gap to production, and shorten time-to-market.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the ideation, exploration, and proof-of-concept implementation of new features and product concepts
• Design, implement, test, maintain, and evolve functional components and tools of our software platform using modern C++ and Python
• Integrate third-party components and implement new system behaviors
• Manage the entire high-level software stack, including operating systems, device drivers, and user interfaces
• Design scalable and deployable distributed system software architecture
• Document and communicate software requirements, design, and implementation thoroughly
• Mentor and support junior team members, fostering a positive and engaging team environment
• Promote a culture of software quality and collaboration across the group

About you

Required:

• Degree in engineering or equivalent industry experience
• 3+ years of experience with robotic, actuated, real-time, or simulated physical systems
• Strong object-oriented and functional programming skills in modern C++
• Working knowledge of Python or Bash
• Good knowledge of Linux systems and toolchains
• Proficient with development best practices and tools such as version control, unit testing, CI/CD
• Ability to analyze problems, estimate effort, and prioritize tasks
• Commitment to engineering precision

Preferred:

• Experience with real robots or autonomous systems in the field
• Professional software development experience in production environments
• Contributions to open-source projects
• Experience debugging, testing, and profiling complex software systems
• Experience with ROS 2, DDS middleware, messaging frameworks
• Parallel programming and performance optimization skills
• Experience with simulation environments like Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Genesis, and cloud-scale simulation
• Experience with ONNXRuntime, TensorRT, CVflow, RKNN, or NPU deployments
• Experience with NVIDIA tools (Jetson, NITROS, TAO, DeepStream)
• Experience profiling and optimizing machine learning models for hardware
• Knowledge of Yocto/BitBake build systems
• Experience with containerized development and deployment
• Experience with behavior planning, decision-making architectures, perception, motion planning, control, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, or VLMs