The Role
Design, build, and productionize motion planning software for mobile manipulators and AMRs; deploy, benchmark, and validate planners across fleet compute platforms; create simulation CI to catch regressions; debug and tune on real hardware at customer sites; collaborate with perception, hardware, firmware, and deployment teams; write production-grade Python and C++ software meeting strict reliability, latency, and safety requirements.
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About Us
At Pickle Robot, we're on a mission to automate global supply chains with Physical AI. Our robots work alongside warehouse teams to unload trucks and containers — one of the toughest, most understaffed jobs in logistics — making the work safer, faster, and more efficient for the people doing it. Loading trucks comes next, followed by the Dill Autonomy Engine: generalized autonomy that will eventually orchestrate robots across entire logistics processes.
We're looking for a dynamic and driven Robotics Software Engineer to revolutionize the future of warehouse automation. You'll own the motion planning software that lets our robots navigate, plan collision-free arm and base motion, and unload trucks in real time on live loading docks.
What You'll Do
- Own the design and development of production-quality planning software — how a robot arm and base moves through a trailer packed with boxes, bags, and whatever else got thrown in — end-to-end from prototype through debugging and tuning on real hardware at customer sites
- Build and maintain the infrastructure to run, benchmark, and deploy planning algorithms across our fleet's varying compute platforms
- Partner with the simulation team to build simulation CI pipelines that validate planner behavior and catch regressions before every deployment to real robots
- Write production-grade software with Python and C++, meeting strict reliability, latency, and timing requirements for safety-critical operation
- Collaborate with perception, hardware, firmware, and deployment teams, and mentor junior engineers while upholding engineering best practices
What You'll Bring
- 2+ years of professional software engineering experience building robotics, planning and control for AMRs or Mobile Manipulator robots
- Hands-on experience developing and deploying classical motion planning algorithms, or ML-based planning methods, for real-world robots or other safety-critical, real-time systems
- Strong written and verbal communication; able to explain complex technical tradeoffs to cross-functional partners. Professional fluency in English
- Proficiency in Python; experience with C++ is a bonus
- Ownership mentality and bias for action, comfort with ambiguity and physical hardware, intellectual curiosity, and a collaborative, low-ego approach
- Hybrid — Boston, MA area, with regular on-site work and occasional travel to customer deployment sites; full-time, with occasional schedule flexibility to support on-site deployments and testing
Pay at Pickle
At Pickle Robot Company, we believe transparency builds trust. The salary range listed here is provided in accordance with Massachusetts law and reflects what we reasonably and in good faith expect to offer for this role. We often consider candidates at different levels of seniority, and final compensation will reflect the level at which a candidate is hired, along with factors like experience and location.
Pickle Perks Pickle provides best-in-class benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance; unlimited vacation; paid federal and state holidays; 401(k) contributions of 5% of your salary; company-covered travel expenses; and other perks to make your working life more fun, comfortable, and productive.
Skills Required
- 2+ years professional software engineering experience building robotics, planning and control for AMRs or Mobile Manipulator robots
- Hands-on experience developing and deploying classical motion planning algorithms or ML-based planning methods for real-world robots or other safety-critical, real-time systems
- Proficiency in Python
- Experience with C++
- Experience writing production-grade software meeting strict reliability, latency, and timing requirements
- Strong written and verbal communication; professional fluency in English
- Comfort with ambiguity, physical hardware, and on-site deployments; ownership mentality
- Hybrid work in Boston, MA with regular on-site work and occasional travel to customer deployment sites
- Ability to mentor junior engineers and uphold engineering best practices
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The Company
What We Do
We believe the best working experience is one where machines do the heavy lifting and people do the problem solving. Our robots work with people in the messy world of warehouse loading docks, reducing the real physical pain of unloading trucks and containers radically amplifying what each person can accomplish. Founded by an exceptional cast of robotics and machine learning experts, Pickle creates robots that work alongside people in the very messy world of the loading dock, reducing the backbreaking human effort that goes into getting your online orders to your door.
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