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Senior Robotics Software Engineer, System Integration

FieldAI· Engineering – Research
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Boston, MA$115k - $170kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior Robotics Software Engineer responsible for integrating perception, planning, locomotion, and manipulation subsystems into a robust, production-quality system on humanoid platforms. Focus on bringing research capabilities to production, system integration, testing, and real-world reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain the core software framework that composes perception, planning, locomotion, and manipulation into a deployable system on humanoid platforms.
  • Define and enforce subsystem interfaces, communication patterns, and data contracts for reliable, independent module development.
  • Own system bring-up, sensor calibration, and validation workflows for new sensor/platform revisions and configurations.
  • Partner with research engineers to take algorithms from prototype to production-quality, tested, maintainable code.
  • Identify and close reliability gaps with fault handling, performance budgets, integration/regression tests, and hardware validation.
  • Build repeatable “graduation” pipelines so new capabilities land without breaking existing functionality.
  • Design and run end-to-end integration tests across hardware and simulation.
  • Build tooling for automated diagnostics, telemetry, and post-run analysis to speed up debugging.
  • Coordinate integration milestones across teams, flag risks early, and keep the system continuously shippable.
  • Profile and optimize latency, throughput, and memory on embedded platforms under real-time constraints.
  • Harden the stack against real-world failure modes (sensor dropouts, comms loss, thermal throttling, degraded modes).
  • Implement runtime monitoring and health checks so the robot can detect, log, and recover from faults autonomously.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent industry experience).
  • Hands-on experience developing and integrating robotics software, including work on physical hardware.
  • Strong C++ and Python proficiency with modern best practices; able to work in large, multi-language codebases.
  • Strong understanding of ROS/ROS2 and experience designing, building, and deploying nodes in complex robotic systems.
  • Solid understanding of real-time systems, inter-process communication, and resource-constrained embedded compute environments.
  • Experience hardening research/prototype code into production-quality software with testing and fault handling.
  • Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work independently while managing multiple priorities.
  • Strong work ethic, self-motivated, and excellent written/verbal communication skills.

Skills

Required:C++PythonROS/ROS2Real-time systemsSystem integrationHardware validation
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About FieldAI

Robot intelligence built for the real-world.

FieldAI is the leader in deploying general-purpose robots in unstructured environments, providing a universal brain that works across many robots, and many tasks.

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