What we’re doing isn’t easy, but nothing worth doing ever is.
We envision a future powered by robots that work seamlessly with human teams. At Diligent Robotics, we build artificial intelligence that enables service robots to collaborate with people and adapt to dynamic, human-filled environments.
Diligent is one of the only companies in the world operating a production fleet of mobile manipulation robots in real environments. Every day, our robots work alongside hospital staff, generating the real-world data needed to advance the next generation of Physical AI. If you’re excited about building autonomy that actually works outside the lab, this is one of the most interesting places you can do that work.
As a Software Engineer – Robotic Applications, you will help strengthen and extend our core robotics platform, from task management and behavior orchestration to motion planning, localization, and controls. Working closely with our Embodied AI team, you will deploy, integrate, and evaluate autonomy models on real robots operating in hospitals. This work will include one of the first production-scale deployments of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and AI-generated manipulation behaviors, bringing the latest advances in embodied AI into real-world operation.
Your work will directly impact how robots behave in the real world, helping us continuously improve the reliability, robustness, and usefulness of autonomy in complex human environments.
Responsibilities- Design, implement, and maintain core robotics platform subsystems (task management, behavior systems, planning, localization, control)
- Collaborate with Embodied AI partners to deploy, evaluate, and iterate on autonomy models in real robotic applications
- Integrate emerging components (e.g., world models) into production robotic workflows with a focus on reliability and observability
- Build test harnesses, regression coverage, and debugging tools to ensure high confidence releases and fast iteration cycles
- Contribute to architecture decisions that improve modularity, testability, and long-term maintainability of the robotics stack
- Mentor teammates and raise the bar on engineering quality, reliability, and operational excellence
- Undergraduate or graduate degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in robotics, autonomous vehicles, or other complex cyber physical systems
- Strong proficiency in C++ and Python
- Core robotics expertise in at least one major domain (e.g., planning, localization, controls, behavior systems, task execution)
- Experience shipping software on real robots and debugging issues that emerge in unstructured, real-world environments
- Strong systems thinking and comfort working across interfaces between autonomy, platform infrastructure, and operational needs
- Excellent cross functional communication skills and a bias toward pragmatic solutions
What We Do
We are a human-centered robotics company. Our mission is to make technical advances towards robots and humans working together side by side, with an emphasis on human-centric design. Diligent Robotics is developing a suite of artificial intelligence that enables robots to collaborate with and adapt to humans in everyday environments. Our service robots are designed to participate and work together with teams of humans. Our first product is a hospital service robot that can assist clinical staff with logistical tasks, allowing them to spend more of their time on direct patient care, improving patient satisfaction, quality of service, and safety.
