Software Engineer, Robotics

CircuitHub, Inc.; Deerfield (MA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Relocation assistance

Job summary

CircuitHub, Inc. is building The Grid, a factory-scale robotics platform for small-batch electronics assembly. We seek an experienced software architect to design the robot operating system, model robots, cameras, tools and jobs, and decide what belongs in Python versus Rust.

You will help bring in vision, integrate models into the control loop, and enable fleet movement with collision-free coordination. This role requires hands-on experience with large-scale robot code in production, strong

Qualifications

• Large-scale robot software in production
• Strong Python and Rust (or C++)
• Experience with vision/ML in robotics
• Hands-on with multi-robot planning and perception
• Ability to own software from design to deployment

Responsibilities

• Architect the robot operating system and model robots, cameras, tools, and jobs
• Integrate vision algorithms into the control loop for production reliability
• Develop agentic robotics with model-driven parts and self-checks
• Coordinate fleet movements with collision-free planning across devices
• Design interfaces between high-level planning and real-time controllers
• Make systems observable with simulation, tracing, and replay

Skills

Robot software

Python

Rust

C++

Vision/ML in robotics

Multi-robot coordination

Planning & scheduling

Real hardware experience

Tools

OpenCV

PyTorch

ONNX Runtime

OR-Tools

PostgreSQL

OpenTelemetry

Job description

About CircuitHub

CircuitHub is reshaping electronics manufacturing with The Grid, a factory-scale robotics platform that makes small-batch, high-mix electronics assembly radically more efficient. Think semiconductor-fab precision applied to the chaotic world of prototyping and low-volume production: a 10x throughput improvement in one of the world's most foundational industries.

We've raised $45M from top-tier investors including Plural, Y Combinator and Google Ventures, and we're already profitable. Our customers include a major EV maker, a top AI lab and many of the worlds largest companies.

The Grid isn't a prototype. It's live, scaling fast and delivering real revenue, and we're building the team that will scale it further.

What you'll do

• Architect the robot operating system. Design the core abstractions: how robots, cameras, tools and jobs are modelled, how work is planned and dispatched, how state is shared and how failures are handled. Decide what belongs in Python and what needs Rust.

• Bring in new vision. Integrate novel computer vision algorithms into the control loop, from finding and centring parts to checking every pick and placement, and make them fast and reliable enough for production.

• Build agentic robotics. Put large models to work in the robots themselves: programming a new part from its datasheet, judging a pick from a camera image, diagnosing a fault and recovering from it, with evals that prove it works before it runs alone.

• Move a fleet. Route dozens of movers at once without collisions or deadlocks, and coordinate gantries, printers and ovens around them.

• Bridge to real time. Design clean interfaces between high-level planning and the real-time controllers driving the motors.

• Make it observable. Simulation, tracing and replay, so every change is proven before it reaches the factory and every failure can be explained.

What we look for

• You've worked on, and ideally architected, a large-scale robot code base that ran on real hardware in production.

• Strong software engineering in Python and Rust (or C++ and a willingness to move to Rust). You care about types, testing, concurrency and clear architecture.

• Experience with some of: motion or path planning, multi-robot coordination, controls, perception, scheduling.

• Hands‑on experience applying large models (LLMs or vision‑language models) to robotics, or a strong drive to.

• You use coding agents to move faster and take full ownership of what they produce.

• You're happy to visit our factories in the US and UK to see your code run.

Stack

• Robot software: Python and Rust

• Vision and models: OpenCV, PyTorch, ONNX Runtime, Claude and OpenAI APIs

• Planning: multi-agent path-finding, OR-Tools

• Data and observability: PostgreSQL, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse

• Agents: Claude Code and Codex throughout

Pay

UK £80k–£125k · US $125k–$250k, depending on experience, plus equity.