Robotics Software Engineer

HIVE; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Hive is building the leading physical AI platform for industrial robotics. The Robotics Software Engineer role focuses on integrating vehicle-specific controls with the Hive platform, ensuring reliable operation on real machines across sites.

You will work hands-on with hardware, software, and sensors to deliver end-to-end system integration. The role emphasizes integration over new perception algorithms, requires extensive robotics experience, and involves regular travel to customer sites,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing or integrating software for robotics, autonomous vehicles, or complex physical systems.
• Strong C++ and Python development skills.
• Strong Linux development and debugging experience.
• Experience with robotics middleware such as ROS 2, DDS, or equivalent systems.
• Experience developing drivers and interfaces for sensors, actuators, and embedded controllers.
• Understanding of networking, time synchronization, coordinate frames, calibration, and telemetry.
• Experience testing software on real robotic systems.
• Ability to diagnose problems across hardware and software boundaries.
• Experience with simulation, automated testing, or hardware-in-the-loop systems.
• Willingness to work hands-on with machines and travel regularly.

Responsibilities

• Develop machine drivers, software adapters, and hardware abstraction interfaces.
• Connect vehicle state, commands, sensors, diagnostics, and telemetry to the Hive platform.
• Integrate vehicle-specific functionality with the autonomy and control stack.
• Configure and calibrate the software platform for each machine.
• Integrate sensors, coordinate frames, timing, networking, and data interfaces.
• Debug issues spanning robotics software, networking, embedded controls, and physical hardware.
• Develop automated integration, regression, simulation, and hardware-in-the-loop tests.
• Build tools for diagnostics, telemetry analysis, logging, and commissioning.
• Validate end-to-end system behavior on real machines.
• Support field bring-up, testing, and customer acceptance.
• Develop reusable software integration patterns for future vehicle platforms.
• Work with core platform teams to improve interfaces and eliminate vehicle-specific forks.

Skills

C++

Python

Linux

ROS 2

DDS

Sensor interfaces

Embedded controllers

Networking

Time synchronization

Testing on real robots

Job description

At Hive, we’re building the defining physical AI platform of the next decade.

Industrial labor is one of the most acute bottlenecks in the global economy. Operators are expensive, hard to retain, and working in environments that are increasingly unsafe. The shortage is structural. The window to solve it is now.

Our answer is a machine-agnostic intelligence platform that lets any machine, on any site, perceive, decide, and act autonomously. One platform. Any machine. No fleet replacement.

Already live across multiple sites and customers in Europe - spanning logistics and warehousing, industrial manufacturing, and large-scale chemical production - with a US expansion underway.

The vision: one operator managing hundreds of machines simultaneously. Productive machine-hour cost dropping by 80x, and unlocks the next productivity revolution in physical work.

The mission is to make productivity limitless. Come and help us build it.

The Role

The Robotics Software Engineer connects each vehicle-specific control interface to the Hive robotics platform. This person ensures that the complete robotics software stack operates reliably on the physical machine.

The focus is system integration rather than the development of new perception or planning algorithms.

Responsibilities

• Develop machine drivers, software adapters, and hardware abstraction interfaces.

• Connect vehicle state, commands, sensors, diagnostics, and telemetry to the Hive platform.

• Integrate vehicle-specific functionality with the autonomy and control stack.

• Configure and calibrate the software platform for each machine.

• Integrate sensors, coordinate frames, timing, networking, and data interfaces.

• Debug issues spanning robotics software, networking, embedded controls, and physical hardware.

• Develop automated integration, regression, simulation, and hardware-in-the-loop tests.

• Build tools for diagnostics, telemetry analysis, logging, and commissioning.

• Validate end-to-end system behavior on real machines.

• Support field bring-up, testing, and customer acceptance.

• Develop reusable software integration patterns for future vehicle platforms.

• Work with core platform teams to improve interfaces and eliminate vehicle-specific forks.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing or integrating software for robotics, autonomous vehicles, or complex physical systems.

• Strong C++ and Python development skills.

• Strong Linux development and debugging experience.

• Experience with robotics middleware such as ROS 2, DDS, or equivalent systems.

• Experience developing drivers and interfaces for sensors, actuators, and embedded controllers.

• Understanding of networking, time synchronization, coordinate frames, calibration, and telemetry.

• Experience testing software on real robotic systems.

• Ability to diagnose problems across hardware and software boundaries.

• Experience with simulation, automated testing, or hardware-in-the-loop systems.

• Willingness to work hands-on with machines and travel regularly.