Robotics Autonomy Engineer: Motion & Coordination

Contoro Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Contoro Robotics, an Austin-based startup focused on warehouse automation, seeks a robotics software engineer to improve motion execution and cross-boundary coordination among planning, robot control, end effectors, sensors, and conveyors. You will produce production-grade software linking high-level autonomy decisions to reliable physical execution.

You will work across software and hardware, diagnose system-level issues, and translate performance data into tangible improvements on deployed

Qualifications

• A BS/MS in Robotics, CS, EE, or related field or equivalent industry experience.
• 3+ years of professional software development for deployed robotic or automation systems.
• Proficiency in C++ and Python in production environments.
• Experience with ROS/ROS 2 on Linux.
• Hands-on experience integrating software with robots, actuators, sensors, or industrial automation equipment.
• Knowledge of robot kinematics, motion planning, trajectory execution, and controller interfaces.
• Experience with behavior trees or state machines.
• Strong debugging across software, controls, and hardware interfaces.

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

Robot integration

Control systems

Education

B.S./M.S. in Robotics

Tools

ROS/ROS 2

Linux

MoveIt

Docker

Job description

Contoro Robotics, an Austin-based startup focused on warehouse automation, seeks a robotics software engineer to improve motion execution and cross-boundary coordination among planning, robot control, end effectors, sensors, and conveyors. You will produce production-grade software linking high-level autonomy decisions to reliable physical execution.

You will work across software and hardware, diagnose system-level issues, and translate performance data into tangible improvements on deployed