Contoro Robotics
SW and Controls Engineer
Austin, TX
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 19 days ago
PythonCloud PlatformsCI/CDDeep LearningData EngineeringComputer VisionSupply ChainLogisticsRoboticsPLCElectrical EngineeringCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingActuators
About the role
- What makes this role unique is the starting point.
- This is an early, hands-on individual-contributor role.
- As the product matures, the team will grow, and you'll have shaped the foundation it grows on.
Responsibilities
- Own the System End-to-End
- You'll be the person who figures out what to reuse, what to build new, and how to make it all work together.
- You'll start alongside a small team of 1-2 mechanical and electrical engineers, this software role, and a few interns, and own the software and controls backbone for the new product.
- Own the product as one system: tie perception, motion and robotics, controls, and conveyance together into a coordinated, reliable machine.
- Define the interfaces, data flow, and sequencing across the system (perception decides, motion executes) and own its behavior end-to-end.
- Build the production software backbone that runs the system: device communication, orchestration and state management, logging, and the data pipelines that connect perception outputs to motion and control.
- Develop or adapt the models that turn captured images into actionable data: identification, pose detection, label and barcode reading, and OCR where needed.
- The ideal system leverages these existing building blocks and integrates them into a new product, rather than reinventing each piece.
Requirements
- Minimum B.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, or a related field (or equivalent industry experience).
- Design and build the rig that legibly captures the required scene across the product's range of inputs, including readable text, labels, and barcodes.
Nice to have
- camera/lens selection, field of view, working distance, depth of field, and resolution, plus lighting and synchronized triggering for fast, repeatable capture.
Skills
- Able to work on-site at Contoro's office in Austin, TX.
- Real-time or motion control, robot programming, and safety/interlock integration.
- Exposure to material-handling, or warehouse-automation environments.
- Take models from prototype to production; evaluate the right mix of classical CV, deep learning, depth, and cloud/local inference.
- Controls & Motion
- Bring up and integrate PLC, motion, robot, and I/O (conveyors, actuators, sensors, and safety) into the control system.
- Coordinate robot and motion with sensing, actuation, and conveyance; tune for throughput and reliability on real flow.
- Deployment & Commissioning
- Deploy at customer sites, measure performance on real-world flow, and iterate.
Benefits
- the company has established engineering teams that have already built and proven a number of modules across vision, motion planning, cloud, and autonomy.
- Work with the company's vision, motion planning, cloud, and autonomy teams to identify which proven modules to build on, and integrate them into the new product.
- Perception & Vision
- Has brought up industrial automation systems end-to-end, integrating software, computer vision, motion, PLC/controls, and hardware into a working machine.
Company info
- Write maintainable, testable code; lean on the company's experienced platform teams for CI/CD, infrastructure, and shared tooling rather than rebuilding it.
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