Responsibilities
Design and develop production-quality software that plans how a robot arm and base moves through a trailer packed with boxes, bags, and whatever else got thrown in.
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
Own features end-to-end from prototype to field deployment, debugging and tuning on real hardware at customer sites
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
Skills and Experience
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
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
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.
