Member of Technical Staff - Robotics Software

Tutorintelligence; Watertown (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Tutorintelligence is seeking a Staff Robotics Software Engineer to lead the design and implementation of robotics software, focusing on motion planning, real-time control, and perception. This role involves mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction across various software systems.

Ideal candidates will have exceptional programming skills, experience in robotics frameworks, and a collaborative mindset to tackle complex problems. Join us in driving innovation in robotics technology in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Qualifications

• Exceptional programming skills with deep experience across multiple languages and systems.
• Track record of designing and owning large, complex software systems.
• Experience leading technical projects and mentoring engineers.
• Comfortable working across the stack from low-level robot control to cloud services.
• Proven experience with Python and prior experience programming robots (e.g. with ROS or other robotics frameworks).
• Experience with manipulation, motion planning, optimization, or perception.
• Background in hardware/software integration and real-time systems.
• Experience scaling robotics systems in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of critical robotics software across various systems.
• Influence technical direction and drive system architecture from embedded to cloud.
• Champion best practices in software and robotics engineering.

Skills

Programming skills

Mentoring engineers

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Experience with Python

Experience with robotics frameworks

DevOps tools (Docker, Kubernetes)

Real-time systems

Job description

Staff Robotics Software Engineer

As a Staff Robotics Software Engineer, you will lead design and implementation of critical robotics software across motion planning, real-time control, perception and optimization systems, tooling, and robot infrastructure. You will influence technical direction, mentor other engineers, drive system architecture across the stack from embedded to cloud, and champion best practices in software and robotics engineering.

Qualifications

• Exceptional programming skills with deep experience across multiple languages and systems.
• Track record of designing and owning large, complex software systems.
• Experience leading technical projects and mentoring engineers.
• Comfortable working across the stack from low-level robot control to cloud services.
• Natural collaborator, strong communicator, and excited to solve hard problems that bridge software and robotics.
• Proven experience with Python and prior experience programming robots (e.g. with ROS or other robotics frameworks)
• Experience with manipulation, motion planning, optimization, or perception.
• Experience with infra/dev tools (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD.
• Background in hardware/software integration and real-time systems.
• Experience scaling robotics systems in production environments.