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
