Software Engineer - Controls

Insight Global; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to advance robotics in real-world settings. You will design and deliver production-grade real-time C++ software for on-board robot control, integrating sensor data with high-level planning and ensuring robust fault detection and recovery.

You will work on real-time control stacks, sensor fusion, and hardware integration, bringing up new robot embodiments and refining estimation, actuation, and diagnostics in tight feedback loops.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering production-grade real-time C++ software for robotics.
• Ability to integrate low-level firmware data with high-level controls.
• Knowledge of state estimation, diagnostics, and fault handling in robotic systems.

Responsibilities

• Deliver production-grade real-time C++ software infrastructure
• Integrate low-level firmware data with high-level controls logic over real-time task graphs
• Implement and tune state estimation (IMU, kinematic, odometry fusion) and diagnostic monitors
• Characterize and improve robot kinematics, estimation, and actuation
• Bring up new robot embodiments
• Integrate learned policies (RL locomotion) into real-time controls
• Perform root-cause analysis for hardware-software integration issues
• Develop API for controls and autonomy systems to interact with hardware and simulation
• Maintain architecture and design docs, including HIL and simulation test coverage
• Deliver reliable software through code reviews, CI, and automated testing

Skills

Real-time C++

Robotics software

RTOS integration

Diagnostics

CI/CD

Tools

ROS

Simulation tools

Git

Job description

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in the development of advanced, general-purpose robots designed to operate in human environments and work with human tools. This position demands a high degree of ownership and responsibility, driving projects from conception through to completion, ensuring that robots perform precisely and reliably in real-world scenarios. You will be responsible for building the software that runs on our on-board computer to enable real-time control, seamless integration of robot data and models, and effective fault detection, diagnostics, and recovery.

• Deliver production-grade real-time C++ software infrastructure
• Integrate low-level firmware data with high-level controls logic over real-time task graphs
• Implement and tune state estimation (IMU, kinematic, odometry fusion) and diagnostic monitors that map sensor faults to DTCs
• Characterize and improve the quality of robot kinematics, estimation, and actuation
• Bring up new robot embodiments
• Integrate learned policies (RL locomotion / motion imitation) into the real-time controls stack
• Perform root-cause analysis for complex hardware-software integration issues
• Develop API for controls and autonomy systems to interact with robot hardware and simulation
• Maintain comprehensive and accurate architecture and design documentation, including HIL and simulation test coverage
• Deliver reliable software through code reviews, continuous integration, and automated testing