Senior Software Engineer, Robotic Manipulation

About the role

About The Job: Berkshire Grey is a leader in the field of AI and robotics, providing innovative solutions for e-commerce, retail replenishment, and logistics. Our technology automates complex pick, pack, and sort operations.   In the role of Senior Software Engineer, Robotics, focusing on manipulation, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the capabilities of our robotic solutions. Your work will involve developing advanced software that enables robots to interact with their environments in completing complex, real-world tasks. Responsibilities: • Design, develop, and support advanced robotic manipulation software deployed in production environments. • Create high-performance software solutions for robotic manipulation, focusing on motion planning, kinematics, control strategies and motion execution, to enhance our robotic solutions. • Utilize and extend simulation software environments to test and refine manipulation development, ensuring expected and robust performance. • Work closely with hardware engineers, product managers, and other software teams to integrate capabilities into our broader robotic systems. • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers. • Clearly and proactively communicate technical priorities and status.   Minimum Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Computer Science, or a closely related field. • 4+ years of professional software development experience in a production environment. • Strong development expertise in Python. • Understanding parallel/distributed systems and asynchronous/concurrent programming. • Experience in designing and implementing software and algorithms for motion planning, motion execution, multi-arm coordination, robotic kinematics, and/or environment representation. • Experience in designing and developing RESTful interfaces, gRPC services/clients, etc. • Familiarity with system design principles and design patterns. • Strong drive to deliver well-designed, well-implemented and well-tested solutions to meet internal and external requirements. • Ability to handle ambiguous or ill-defined problems, and scope, plan and implement solutions for them. • Experience with version control (Git), code reviews, issue tracking (Jira) and automated testing (unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop). • Ability to work collaboratively in a team setting and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Preferred Qualifications: • Master’s degree in Robotics, Computer Science or a closely related field. • 6+ years of experience in software development in a production environment. • Experience with ROS/ROS2. • Experience with development and integration of drivers for robotic hardware, particularly robotic arms. • Familiarity with robotics simulation tools and test environments. • Familiarity with the Linux ecosystem. • Familiarity with Python’s asyncio library. • Programming experience in C++. • Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB). 6110-2608BG