Autonomy-Driven Robotics Software Engineer

contoro; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Contoro Robotics in Austin, TX is hiring a robotics software engineer to advance motion execution and cross-domain coordination across planning, control, perception, and hardware interfaces. You will ship production code linking high-level autonomy to reliable physical execution on deployed robots.

The role suits engineers who enjoy solving real-world problems, debugging across software and hardware boundaries, and driving performance improvements in warehouse automation systems.

Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent industry experience
• 3+ years of professional experience developing software for deployed robotic or automation systems
• Proficiency in modern C++ and Python in a production environment
• Experience developing with ROS or ROS 2 on Linux
• Hands-on experience integrating software with physical robots, actuators, sensors, or industrial automation equipment
• Working knowledge of robot kinematics, motion planning, trajectory execution, and controller interfaces
• Experience with behavior trees, state machines, or similar task-orchestration frameworks
• Strong debugging skills across software, communications, controls, and hardware interfaces
• Ability to design, test, and deliver reliable software across subsystem boundaries

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve software for robot trajectory execution, task sequencing, and hardware coordination
• Profile robot cycles and reduce delays across motion planning, trajectory execution, end-effector operation, sensing, and conveyor interaction
• Build and maintain reusable, validated robot motions for common operating scenarios and integrate them with online planning
• Extend behavior trees or state machines for autonomous task execution, event-driven coordination, fault handling, and recovery
• Integrate motion-planning outputs with industrial robot controllers, hardware interfaces, and safety constraints
• Diagnose production issues using logs, telemetry, simulation, and testing on physical robots
• Add instrumentation, automated tests, regression tests, and hardware validation for execution and autonomy software
• Collaborate with perception, motion planning, controls, hardware, test, and deployment engineers on cross-system improvements
• Participate in design reviews and contribute to system architecture and technical planning

Skills

C++

Python

ROS/ROS2

Robotics

System debugging

Education

B.S. in Robotics or CS

M.S. preferred

Tools

ROS/ROS 2

Linux

MoveIt

Docker

Job description

Contoro Robotics in Austin, TX is hiring a robotics software engineer to advance motion execution and cross-domain coordination across planning, control, perception, and hardware interfaces. You will ship production code linking high-level autonomy to reliable physical execution on deployed robots.

The role suits engineers who enjoy solving real-world problems, debugging across software and hardware boundaries, and driving performance improvements in warehouse automation systems.