Robotics Software Engineer — Production Motion Planning

Socket.dev; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, & vision insurance

Unlimited vacation

401K contributions

Travel supplies

Other perks

Job summary

Pickle Robot Company in Boston, MA is seeking a Robotics Software Engineer to design, build, and productionize motion planning software for AMRs and mobile manipulators. You will bring planning algorithms from prototype to real hardware on customer sites, while building infrastructure for cross-platform deployment and testing.

The role requires 2+ years in robotics software, Python expertise, and strong English communication.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience building robotics, planning and control for AMRs or Mobile Manipulator robots.
• Hands-on experience developing and deploying classical motion planning algorithms, or ML based planning methods for real-world robots or other safety-critical, real-time systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication; professional fluency in English.
• Proficiency in Python; experience with C++ is a bonus.
• Ownership mentality and bias for action, comfort with ambiguity and hardware, collaborative approach.
• Hybrid — Boston, MA area, with regular on-site work and occasional travel to deployment sites.
• Full-time, with occasional schedule flexibility to support on-site deployments and testing.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop production-quality software that plans how a robot arm and base moves through a trailer packed with boxes and bags.
• Build and maintain the infrastructure to run, benchmark, and deploy planning algorithms across our fleet's compute platforms.
• Partner with the simulation team to build simulation CI pipelines that validate planner behavior and catch regressions before deployments.
• Own features end-to-end from prototype to field deployment, debugging and tuning on real hardware at customer sites.
• Write production-grade software with Python and C++, meeting reliability, latency, and timing requirements for safety-critical operation.
• Collaborate with perception, hardware, firmware, and deployment teams, mentoring junior engineers while upholding best practices.

Skills

Robotics

Motion planning

Python

C++

English communication

Hybrid collaboration

Job description

Pickle Robot Company in Boston, MA is seeking a Robotics Software Engineer to design, build, and productionize motion planning software for AMRs and mobile manipulators. You will bring planning algorithms from prototype to real hardware on customer sites, while building infrastructure for cross-platform deployment and testing.

The role requires 2+ years in robotics software, Python expertise, and strong English communication.