Sr. Robotics & Software Engineer

Do you get excited when your software interacts with the physical world?

Are you ready to work on smart robots in real production environments?

Prefer a smaller team where your work directly impacts outcomes?

This role owns core robot behaviors, control systems, and deployment tooling. You will help shape the next generation of intelligent manipulation systems.

Motive Workforce is supporting a robotics company building AI-powered systems used in warehouse and logistics environments. Their technology focuses on intelligent picking and manipulation, solving complex real-world challenges where software, hardware, and machine learning intersect.

• Robots deployed in live production environments at scale
• Focus on automation for fulfillment and warehouse operations
• Combines applied AI with robotics and control systems
• Engineering-driven culture with direct access to real-world feedback loops
• Small, high-impact team with strong technical ownership

The team includes engineers with backgrounds across advanced robotics, large-scale software systems, and high-performance engineering environments.

What You Will Do

• Design and implement robot control and behavior systems for real-world manipulation tasks
• Build modular, extensible software architectures adaptable across customers and use cases
• Develop heuristics and data-driven logic for handling diverse SKUs and item categories
• Detect and handle real-world anomalies, including double picks, item disassembly, and mis-grasps
• Build internal tools and automation to speed up robot deployment and commissioning
• Design APIs and interfaces for integration with Warehouse Management Systems and customer infrastructure
• Test and validate software through unit tests, simulation, and on real robots
• Collaborate closely with perception, ML, hardware, and operations teams

Why This Role

• Build robots powered by AI
• Work on systems already deployed in production
• Test code in unit tests, simulations, and on real robots
• High ownership, direct impact on outcomes
• Blend of research and applied engineering

What You Bring:

• 5 - 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Hands-on experience with robotics systems, industrial automation, or physical systems
• Experience programming industrial robots, ABB strongly preferred
• Strong proficiency in Python, experience with C++ or ROS is a plus
• Experience designing systems that span software, hardware, and real-world constraints
• Proven ability to lead technically, driving design decisions, mentoring, and code quality
• Strong problem-solving skills in real-world environments with imperfect data
• Excellent communication skills in English