Senior Software Engineer (R&D)

Berkshire Grey, a leader in robotics and automation. As a Senior Software Engineer in the Research & Advanced Development group, you will tackle challenging manipulation problems and contribute to the advancement of real-world robotics. Your work will encompass the entire robotics stack, from robot drivers to multi-robot orchestration systems. You will also have the opportunity to mentor junior engineers and interns, prototype solutions, and take ownership of projects from prototype to production-ready features.

Responsibilities

• Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including healthcare, vacation, recognition programs, retirement options, and daily lunch delivery.
• Contribuer au développement de nouvelles approches pour résoudre des problèmes de manipulation dans les systèmes robotiques.
• Participer à l'entraînement et à l'adaptation des architectures d'apprentissage automatique existantes pour l'apprentissage des robots.
• Collaborer avec des partenaires de recherche externes pour trouver des solutions aux défis de l'entreprise.
• Work independently on a variety of projects while maintaining focus
• Determine and communicate justification of technical priorities

Production robot deployment

• Robot learning frameworks (e.g. Orbit / Isaac Labs, OpenAI Gym)
• Robotic sensors, such as RGB cameras and depth sensors

Requirements

Work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities

• Rapidly prototype and iterate on solutions to challenging problems
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, capable of explaining complex ideas clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Experience in working with ROS or ROS2

• Experience with modern software engineering tooling and workflows including Git and CI/CD
• Experience in software development in robotics or automation roles
• Strong development expertise in Python and C++
• Parallel/distributed systems and asynchronous/concurrent programming
• Experience in designing and implementing software and algorithms for real robots, including troubleshooting of real robot systems

Preferred

• Combining model-based and data-driven approaches
• Docker, cloud computing, or similar applications
• Agentic coding tools
• Common deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch
• Master’s degree in Robotics, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Computer Science or a closely related field
• Robot simulators (e.g. Isaac Sim, MuJoCo)
• 3+ years of relevant software engineering experience in robotics or automation roles

Demonstrated experience with one or multiple of

• Computer vision applied to robotic manipulation problems, such as grasp estimation, object detection/segmentation, or anomaly detection
• Motion planning & optimization for single or bimanual manipulation
• Imitation learning for manipulation or other real world use cases