Senior Robotics Software Engineer – Fleet Autonomy

Motion Recruitment; Waltham (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Benefits

Vision Benefits

PTO

401(k)

Professional Development Opportunities

Collaborative Engineering Environment

Career Growth Opportunities

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Senior Robotics Full Stack Software Engineer to join an innovative robotics startup in the automotive services space. You will lead hands-on development across Go, Python, TypeScript, React, APIs, and real-time data pipelines, connecting robots, operators, and cloud systems.

You’ll mentor engineers, influence architecture, and help ship reliable robotics software deployed in the field, while balancing front-end dashboards with back-end services and CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong full stack development across frontend and backend.
• Experience in robotics or robotics-focused environment.
• Proficiency with Go, Python, and TypeScript.
• Experience building production frontend apps with React.
• Experience designing APIs and software architecture.
• Experience with robotics analytics and real-time dashboards.
• Experience with messaging/streaming systems (queues, pub/sub, or WebSockets).
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or Jenkins).
• Solid understanding of SOLID, clean code, and TDD.
• Experience with real-time telemetry, observability, and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain software across the robotics tech stack.
• Build frontend apps for fleet monitoring, mission planning, and teleoperation.
• Develop backend services and APIs connecting robots, operators, and cloud.
• Implement behavior trees and autonomy logic.
• Create tools to author, visualize, test, and debug robot behaviors.
• Build data pipelines between sensors and robotics systems.
• Resolve concurrency, race conditions, and integration issues.
• Develop operational metrics for robot uptime and fleet health.
• Establish testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and observability standards.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate across robotics, hardware, and software teams.

Skills

Full stack development

Go

Python

TypeScript

React

APIs

CI/CD

SOLID / clean code

Test-driven development

Telemetry / real-time data

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

ROS / ROS2

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

MQTT

OpenTelemetry

BehaviorTree.CPP

py_trees

MuJoCo

Isaac Sim

Job description

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Senior Robotics Full Stack Software Engineer to join an innovative robotics startup in the automotive services space. You will lead hands-on development across Go, Python, TypeScript, React, APIs, and real-time data pipelines, connecting robots, operators, and cloud systems.

You’ll mentor engineers, influence architecture, and help ship reliable robotics software deployed in the field, while balancing front-end dashboards with back-end services and CI/CD practices.