Robotics Software Engineer, Autonomy Integration
Contoro Inc.2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Develop and improve software for robot trajectory execution, task sequencing, and hardware coordination.
- Profile robot cycles and reduce delays across motion planning, trajectory execution, end-effector operation, sensing, and conveyor interaction.
- Build reusable, validated robot motions and integrate them with online planning.
- Extend behavior trees or state machines for autonomous execution, event-driven coordination, fault handling, and recovery.
- Integrate motion-planning outputs with industrial robot controllers, hardware interfaces, and safety constraints.
- Diagnose production issues using logs, telemetry, simulation, and testing on physical robots.
- Add instrumentation, automated tests, regression tests, and hardware validation for execution and autonomy software.
- Collaborate with perception, motion planning, controls, hardware, test, and deployment engineers on cross-system improvements.
- Participate in design reviews and contribute to system architecture and technical planning.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
- 3+ years of professional experience developing software for deployed robotic or automation systems.
- Proficiency with modern C++ and Python in a production environment.
- Experience with ROS or ROS 2 on Linux.
- Hands-on experience integrating software with physical robots, actuators, sensors, or industrial automation equipment.
- Working knowledge of robot kinematics, motion planning, trajectory execution, and controller interfaces.
- Experience with behavior trees, state machines, or similar task-orchestration frameworks.
- Strong debugging skills across software, communications, controls, and hardware interfaces.
- Ability to design, test, and deliver reliable software across subsystem boundaries.
- Preferred experience with KUKA, ABB, FANUC, Universal Robots, or similar industrial manipulators.
- Preferred experience with MoveIt, Pilz, OMPL, Ruckig, ros2_control, or comparable robotics frameworks.
- Preferred experience profiling and improving robot cycle time, throughput, latency, or trajectory execution.
- Familiarity with EtherCAT, CAN, PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, or OPC UA.
- Preferred experience with behavior-tree design, event-driven automation, or production recovery logic.
- Preferred experience building simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, or automated regression-testing systems.
- Familiarity with Docker-based deployment and cloud-based logging or monitoring.
- Prior work in warehouse automation, manufacturing, logistics, material handling, or robotic pick-and-place applications.
About Contoro Inc.
Contoro Robotics builds AI-enabled robots that autonomously unload floor-loaded trailers and shipping containers for warehouses, shippers, and 3PLs. The company sells and deploys its truck-unloading systems with a human-in-the-loop service to ensure high completion rates in real facilities. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, the privately held firm focuses on robotics and applied AI for industrial automation and announced a Series A round in 2025.