Autonomous Rooftop Robotics Software Engineer

Horizon Roofing, Inc; Waite Park (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive wage

Health benefits

Paid time off

Holiday pay

Owner-led team

Company clothing store

$200 date night reimbursement

Job summary

Horizon Roofing, Inc in Waite Park, MN, is hiring a software lead for autonomous roof robots. You'll own the codebase for navigation, localization, multi-robot coordination, and the iPhone interface, ensuring daily reliability for crews.

You'll develop centimeter-accurate RTK positioning, integrate GNSS, lidar, IMUs, and hardware, and maintain one codebase with simulations, tests, and over-the-air updates, spending time on roofs with crews.

Qualifications

• Years of building software for mobile robots or autonomous vehicles that shipped to real users.
• Strong ROS 2 experience: Nav2, robot localization or equivalent sensor fusion, behavior trees, launch and lifecycle management.
• Python and C++ on Linux; comfortable on embedded compute like NVIDIA Jetson.
• Hands-on with GNSS/RTK, lidar, and IMUs, and the practical problems of outdoor localization.
• You've debugged a robot in a field with a laptop on your knee and you liked it.
• You can explain to a roofer why the robot did what it did.

Responsibilities

• Own the robot codebase end to end navigation, localization, multi-robot coordination, the iPhone interface, and the systems that keep it all running on the robots
• Make centimeter-accurate RTK positioning, heading, and roof-edge boundaries rock solid
• Build robot-to-robot coordination: following, queuing, handoffs at a moving machine
• Integrate hardware: GNSS, UWB, IMUs, load cells, buttons, status lights, and new attachments
• Bring engineering discipline: one codebase, simulation that matches the field, tests, GitHub pull requests, over-the-air updates
• Spend real time on roofs with crews, watch what breaks, and fix it
• Work with AI coding tools daily; we use Claude Code, ChatGPT and others and expect you to use it to move fast

Skills

ROS 2

Nav2

Robot localization

Sensor fusion

Behavior trees

Linux

Python

C++

NVIDIA Jetson

GNSS/RTK

Lidar

IMUs

Field debugging

Explain to roofer

Tools

GitHub

CI for robotics

Job description

Horizon Roofing, Inc in Waite Park, MN, is hiring a software lead for autonomous roof robots. You'll own the codebase for navigation, localization, multi-robot coordination, and the iPhone interface, ensuring daily reliability for crews.

You'll develop centimeter-accurate RTK positioning, integrate GNSS, lidar, IMUs, and hardware, and maintain one codebase with simulations, tests, and over-the-air updates, spending time on roofs with crews.