Berkshire Grey
Senior Software Engineer, Robotics
Bedford, Massachusetts · Senior
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About the role
- About the Job Berkshire Grey is a leader in AI-enabled robotics, providing innovative automation solutions for e-commerce, retail replenishment, package handling, and logistics operations.
- Our technology automates complex warehouse tasks such as picking, packing, sorting, and trailer unloading.
- This is an ideal role for a software engineer who enjoys solving difficult problems at the intersection of software, robotics, and physical automation-and who is motivated by seeing their work operate on real systems.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, deploy, monitor, and maintain software for Berkshire Grey's robotic trailer-unloading product.
- Develop software components that control and coordinate robotic behavior and other physical system functions.
- Develop automated tests, simulation workflows, and system-level test methods to validate new capabilities.
- Support software integration, system commissioning, and troubleshooting on development and customer systems.
- Participate in architecture discussions, design reviews, code reviews, sprint planning, and other engineering activities.
- Document software designs, interfaces, operating behavior, and troubleshooting procedures.
- Travel to customer or development sites when needed to support integration, testing, deployment, and troubleshooting.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or a related field with 5+ years of professional software development experience
- or a master's degree with 3+ years of experience.
- Strong software development expertise in Python and/or C++.
- Experience with Git-based version control and issue-tracking systems such as Jira.
- You will work with a multidisciplinary team to develop software that controls physical robotic behavior and coordinates the components required to unload packages safely, reliably, and efficiently.
Nice to have
- Experience with robotics, industrial automation, or robotic material-handling systems.
- Experience with parallel or distributed software systems.
- Experience with asynchronous or concurrent programming, including Python Asyncio or similar frameworks.
- Experience with messaging and communication technologies such as Kafka, gRPC, or similar systems.
- Experience with software-based simulation tools and techniques.
- Experience with ROS or ROS2.
- Experience integrating software with sensors, actuators, programmable logic controllers, or other industrial hardware.
- Familiarity with warehouse automation, logistics, package handling, or trailer-unloading applications.
Compensation
- Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package.
Benefits
- Improve software quality, observability, test coverage, deployment practices, and maintainability.
Company info
- Ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary engineering team.
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