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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).

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