Senior Robotics Software Engineer

2 weeks ago

Austin, Texas, United States Apptronik Full time

At Apptronik, we are pushing the boundaries of robotics to improve human quality of life and address the labor shortage problem. Our team has been at the forefront of robotics innovation for years, with a legacy dating back to the DARPA Robotics Challenge.

We apply our expertise across the full robotics stack to tackle some of the most pressing challenges our society faces, and we expect our products and technology to make a meaningful impact.

We value passion, creativity, and collaboration to overcome existing technological barriers in the industry and create innovative products.

This role is responsible for developing essential controls infrastructure software and processes that enable precise, high-performance control of Apptronik robots.

The successful candidate will ensure seamless integration between robot data and models, ensuring that the robot abstraction API used for planning and controls matches both simulation and hardware across a fleet of dynamic humanoid platforms.

They will also ensure that data is properly mapped from sensors to robot models to actuator commands during real-time operation.

The role requires expertise in software design, robotic hardware integration, and controls fundamentals to drive innovation and bring our robots to life.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Deliver production-grade real-time controls software infrastructure
  • Integrate low-level firmware data with high-level controls logic
  • Characterize and improve the quality of robot kinematics, estimation, and actuation
  • Perform root-cause analysis on complex hardware-software-controls integration bugs
  • Develop API for controls and autonomy systems to interact with robot hardware and simulation
  • Implement rigorous unit and integration testing of controls infrastructure and hardware integration
  • Maintain comprehensive and accurate architecture and design documentation
  • Deliver reliable software through code reviews, continuous integration, and automated testing
Requirements:
  • Strong modern C++ and Object-Oriented Programming skills, including inheritance, templates, and design patterns
  • Proven experience integrating and testing controls software with complex robotics hardware, especially with hardware abstraction layers for the sensors and actuators of articulated systems
  • Familiarity with basic robotics fundamentals such as kinematics, dynamics, controls, estimation, and system identification
  • Experience with common robotics and controls packages such as ROS, URDF, MuJoCo, and Eigen
  • Multi-threaded and multi-process design/development/debugging skills
  • Experience developing Linux applications
  • Software testing methodologies (unit & integration testing)
  • Git or similar version control systems
  • Strong technical communication skills
  • Familiarity with Agile process (sprint planning, design reviews, & code reviews)
Education and Experience:
  • BS, MS or PhD degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, or related field
  • Proven industry experience integrating robot hardware and software (5 years, or 2 with grad degree)

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