Robotics Software Engineer II

About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on Robotics Software Engineer to join our Skills team, focused on developing, testing, validating, and integrating robot skills into real customer workflows. In this role, you will operate at the boundary between prototype and production, working directly with our humanoid robot to evaluate performance, root-cause failures, and collect targeted teleop data to improve learned behaviors. You will be hands-on with hardware nearly every day, helping bring new customer workflows online and ensuring existing deployments remain reliable. You will define test plans, execute experiments, and validate that our behaviors meet autonomy and performance requirements. You’ll also partner with AI teams to refine learned policies using real-world data.

Key Responsibilities

Humanoid Feature Skill Development & Workflow Integration 

• Develop and maintain the core library of production-ready skills that form the foundation of customer workflows.
• Script new skills using behavior trees, state machines, or task planners, defining control flow logic and behavior sequencing.
• Build and maintain workflows using the robot’s skill API.
• Prototype new skills and customer use cases to assess their feasibility.

Teleop Engineering

• Replay failed robot trajectories to diagnose complex failure modes and identify gaps in training data.
• Collect high-quality, targeted teleop data to improve skill policies.
• Set up training environments, run evaluation scripts, and analyze performance.
• Partner with AI teams to tune skill policies and provide actionable feedback from testing.

Testing, Validation & Deployment

• Define what “production-ready” means for each skill or workflow and design the test plans and infrastructure to validate it.
• Recreate corner cases from logs and failures into repeatable tests.
• Validate new skills and workflows both in simulation and on hardware before release.
• Travel occasionally (<10%) to customer sites to assist in deployment, perform hands-on validation, and support tuning efforts.

About You

• You have a B.S. or M.S. in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field.
• You are proficient in Python and write clean code.
• You have experience with Linux systems.
• You are excited about developing physical robot behaviors, not just running simulations. You enjoy getting your hands dirty, iterating on hardware, and watching your work come to life in the field.
• You are curious about how autonomous robots work end-to-end, from low-level control to high-level task planning, and want to help bridge the gap between behavior design and real-world deployment.
• You have a strong sense of ownership and pride in the reliability of your work. You sweat the details and are always looking to eliminate failure modes.

Bonus Qualifications

• Prior experience scripting robot behaviors using state machines, behavior trees, or other control flow logic.
• Understanding of robot manipulation, motion planning, and kinematics (e.g., familiarity with MoveIt framework).
• Hands-on experience collecting and curating teleop datasets for training or evaluating learned policies.
• Experience developing AR/VR applications for robot teleoperation.
• Exposure to test-driven development, automated regression testing, and CI/CD workflows.
• Experience operating autonomous robots in customer environments or real-world deployments.