Robotics Automation Software Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Massachusetts.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, test, and maintain software applications that support warehouse automation operations.

• Create services that coordinate autonomous mobile robot fleets, manage inventory movement, facilitate order fulfillment workflows, oversee workstation activities, allocate warehouse resources, and orchestrate and route tasks.

• Develop scalable APIs, event-driven services, and user-facing applications.

• Write clean, maintainable, and thoroughly tested code.

• Engage in architecture and design reviews.

• Construct highly available microservices and event-driven systems.

• Establish reliable communication between warehouse systems, robots, and external integrations.

• Design systems for resiliency, fault tolerance, and smooth recovery.

• Integrate warehouse execution software with robotic fleet management systems.

• Assist with task dispatching, route execution, status monitoring, and exception handling.

• Collaborate with teams in Robotics Engineering, Product Management, Quality Engineering, and Customer Operations.

• Validate software using digital twin environments and simulation-based testing.

• Support automated testing strategies.

• Monitor and optimize application performance.

• Investigate production incidents and implement corrective measures.

• Participate in on-call support rotations as necessary.

• Analyze operational metrics and identify opportunities for system improvements.

• Contribute to technical roadmaps and the evolution of architectural design.

• Enhance development processes, deployment pipelines, and engineering standards.

• Evaluate emerging technologies and frameworks.

• Mentor junior engineers and disseminate technical knowledge across teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

• Over 3 years of professional experience in software development.

• Strong expertise in Java or Kotlin.

• Familiarity with Flutter/Dart is a plus.

• Experience in building distributed systems and APIs, particularly with Kafka and MQTT.

• Knowledge of key-value stores like Redis and NoSQL.

• Understanding of software design principles and architectural patterns.

• Strong problem-solving and debugging abilities.

• Background in warehouse automation, logistics, supply chain, robotics, or industrial systems is preferred.

• Experience in constructing event-driven architectures is preferred.

• Familiarity with real-time operational systems is preferred.

• Knowledge of robotics platforms or fleet management systems is preferred.

• Experience with simulation environments or digital twins is preferred.

• Knowledge of optimization, routing, scheduling, or resource allocation systems is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote/Virtual work arrangement.

• Full-time employment.