Senior Robotics Software Engineer, AMR & Fleet

Magna International; Lowell (MI); On-site; USD 106,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

Magna International's Magna New Mobility division seeks a robotics software engineer to design, develop, and integrate software for Autonomous Mobile Robots and Fleet Management. You will validate, deploy, and support AMR systems across customer sites and production environments.

Key responsibilities include navigation and control software, multi‑robot coordination, and data flow optimization. You will collaborate with internal teams, suppliers, and customers, with international travel to

Qualifications

• Master's or higher degree in Engineering including Mechanical, Electrical, CS, Aerospace, and Robotics.
• Automotive OEM or Tier-1 experience OR Bachelor's + relevant experience.
• Experience developing, integrating, validating, deploying, and debugging robotics software.
• Hands-on with AMRs, robotics platforms, automation systems, sensors and actuators.
• Experience robot deployment, mapping, commissioning, validation and onsite support.
• Strong understanding of robotics algorithms: traffic management, fleet coordination, path planning, navigation, localization, obstacle avoidance.
• Strong C/C++, Python programming skills.
• Industry protocols: MQTT, DDS, TCP/IP, Ethernet, CAN, REST API, VDA5050.
• Ability to travel internationally for business.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, integrate, deploy, and validate robotics software for AMRs and Fleet Management.
• Develop navigation, localization, path planning, control, traffic management and coordination.
• Create modular components and optimize data flow between robotics modules.
• Integrate robotics software with FMS, PLCs and third‑party systems.
• Build internal tools for configuration, deployment, monitoring, diagnostics, testing and debugging.
• Validate software via simulation, lab tests and production environments.
• Perform mapping, localization tuning, system commissioning and onsite deployments.
• Troubleshoot issues, perform root cause analysis, and improve system reliability.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams, suppliers and customers for deployment and improvements.

Skills

Robotics programming

C/C++ programming

Python programming

Multi-robot coordination

System integration

Travel internationally

Education

Master's or higher degree in Engineering (Mechanical/Electrical/CS/Aerospace/Robotics)

Automotive OEM or Tier-1 experience OR Bachelor's + applicable experience

Tools

MQTT

DDS

TCP/IP

Ethernet

CAN

REST API

VDA5050

Job description

Magna International's Magna New Mobility division seeks a robotics software engineer to design, develop, and integrate software for Autonomous Mobile Robots and Fleet Management. You will validate, deploy, and support AMR systems across customer sites and production environments.

Key responsibilities include navigation and control software, multi‑robot coordination, and data flow optimization. You will collaborate with internal teams, suppliers, and customers, with international travel to