Senior Robotics & ML Engineer - Production Automation

F-Prime Capital; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Production robotics access

Job summary

RightHand Robotics is seeking a senior software engineer to advance perception, decision-making, and learning for robotic picking in real warehouses. You will work across robotics, ML, and system architecture to improve perception, grasp strategies, and overall robustness, delivering production-ready code and scalable solutions.

You'll collaborate with hardware, operations, product, and customer teams, applying strong Python skills and experience with production systems to push reliable robot

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in robotics, ML engineering, or related fields.
• Strong Python experience.
• Experience delivering production-level code.
• Hands-on experience with real-world systems, including robotics, sensors, or deployed ML.
• Strong problem-solving mindset and comfort working across system boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Improve pick success, reliability, and throughput across production robots.
• Build and deploy perception and segmentation models for warehouse environments.
• Develop intelligent picking, retry, and placement strategies that reduce exceptions.
• Integrate ML outputs into real-time robotic decision systems.
• Work hands‑on with robots, cameras, and sensor data to harden systems.
• Use production data to continuously improve performance and robustness.
• Collaborate closely with hardware, operations, product, and customer teams.

Skills

Python

Robotics

Machine Learning

Production systems

Problem solving

Tools

Docker

Linux

Job description

RightHand Robotics is seeking a senior software engineer to advance perception, decision-making, and learning for robotic picking in real warehouses. You will work across robotics, ML, and system architecture to improve perception, grasp strategies, and overall robustness, delivering production-ready code and scalable solutions.

You'll collaborate with hardware, operations, product, and customer teams, applying strong Python skills and experience with production systems to push reliable robot