Senior Software Engineer, Robotic Packing/Manipulation
Berkshire Grey2 months ago
Bedford, MA, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Develop learning methods for spatial reasoning, sequential decision-making, and robotic manipulation.
- Combine learned policies and predictive models with planning and optimization for physically constrained tasks.
- Design training and evaluation workflows for task success, robustness, and execution efficiency.
- Prototype solutions, create demonstrations, and transition successful prototypes to product teams.
- Develop and test manipulation behaviors in simulation and on physical robotic systems.
- Identify high-impact improvements, collaborate with external research partners, and evaluate new robotics approaches.
- Mentor junior engineers or interns and communicate technical priorities and project status.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Robotics, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Computer Science, or a closely related field.
- 4+ years of software development experience focused on robotics manipulation or related areas.
- Strong Python and C++ development expertise.
- Experience with PyTorch, data science libraries, and ROS or ROS2.
- Experience training and adapting machine learning architectures for robot learning in areas such as manipulation, locomotion, or navigation.
- Ability to develop and troubleshoot real robotic systems, rapidly prototype solutions, communicate technical priorities, work independently, and mentor junior engineers.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to provide technical leadership on key projects.
- Preferred qualifications include a PhD, experience with real and simulated data capture, sim-to-real manipulation, real-time perception-based control, tactile sensing, robot simulators, robot learning frameworks, Docker, cloud computing, experiment tracking, databases, parallel or distributed systems, and LLM usage in robotics.
Categories
ML EngineeringRobotics
About Berkshire Grey
Berkshire Grey builds AI‑driven robotic systems and software that automate warehouse and logistics workflows such as pick, pack, sort, parcel sortation, and trailer unloading for retailers, e‑commerce, and parcel carriers. The company sells integrated robotics, vision, and orchestration software as deployed systems and services to large fulfillment and logistics operations. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, it focuses on omni‑channel fulfillment and high‑throughput logistics environments.