Robotics Software Engineer — On‑Site NYC, Stock & Benefits

OPENSHELF; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

On-site in Midtown Manhattan

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

Openshelf in Midtown Manhattan is building an open-source system to automate physical inventory. We seek a Python backend engineer to maintain the current codebase and hardware control layer, and to advance AI-assisted development and internal dashboards.

You will work on-site with a small team, collaborating with senior engineers to design robust APIs, data models, and deployment processes, ultimately shipping features to production devices.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python with clean, testable code.
• Experience with FastAPI, APIs and asynchronous I/O.
• Familiarity with hardware interfaces and control (serial, Modbus, GPIO).

Responsibilities

• Maintain, debug, and improve the Python backend and hardware control layer.
• Write clean Python code interfacing with hardware (serial, Modbus, GPIO).
• Build and maintain internal tools and dashboards to monitor devices.
• Collaborate on software design decisions: API structure, data modeling, error handling.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and deployment to real devices.
• Contribute to the full development cycle from concept to iteration.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

Docker

AI coding

Hardware interfacing

Tools

Git

Serial communications

Job description

Openshelf in Midtown Manhattan is building an open-source system to automate physical inventory. We seek a Python backend engineer to maintain the current codebase and hardware control layer, and to advance AI-assisted development and internal dashboards.

You will work on-site with a small team, collaborating with senior engineers to design robust APIs, data models, and deployment processes, ultimately shipping features to production devices.