Robotics Software Engineer

Company: Dexterity, Inc.
Location: Redwood City
Posted on: March 25, 2025

Job Description:

As a Robotics Software Engineer you will develop software to enable real time control, low latency vision systems, optimal planners, and much more. You will design & integrate features such as grasp handling, real time decision making and interface with various sensors. Design and development of novel robotic behaviors for Dexterity's robotics applications will also be part of your responsibility. You will develop tests, integrate with observability and diagnostics tools to understand the behavior of your software, and make improvements. You will monitor and maintain production software and work on reducing interventions and improving scale.About Dexterity: At Dexterity, we believe robots can positively transform the world. Our breakthrough technology frees people to do the creative, inspiring, problem-solving jobs that humans do best by enabling robots to handle repetitive and physically difficult work.We're starting with warehouse automation, where the need for smarter, more resilient supply chains impacts millions of lives and businesses around the world. Dexterity's full-stack robotics systems pick, move, pack, and collaborate with human-like skill, awareness, and learning capabilities. Our systems are software-driven, hardware-agnostic, and have already picked over 15 million goods in production. And did we mention we're customer-obsessed? Every decision, large and small, is driven by one question - how can we empower our customers with robots to do more than they thought was possible?Dexterity is one of the fastest growing companies in robotics, backed by world-class investors such as Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Obvious Ventures. We're a diverse and multidisciplinary team with a culture built on passion, trust, and dedication. Come join Dexterity and help make intelligent robots a reality!Day to Day Activities:

• Design, program, test and debug software for robots and robotic systems.
• Develop & integrate software for robotic application, computer vision, robotics control, data ingestion, & data analysis.
• Build and analyze pipelines of critical and non-critical data: introspecting on errors regarding decision making, planning, or inference.
• Develop software to enable multiple robots and operator workflows to work collaboratively and safely.
• Maintenance of new & existing product feature sets.
• Analyze performance (speed, quality, and autonomy) of control, vision, and data software running on the robot system and develop optimizations to improve them.Required Skills:
  • BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related discipline.
  • Knowledge of kinematics, dynamics, planning and vision transforms.
  • Strong Python programming skills.
  • Knowledge of Modern C++ and Linux.
  • Experience with communication protocols and (REST, HTTP, WebSocket, gRPC) corresponding software libraries.
  • Knowledge of common ML techniques, libraries and pipelines.
  • Experience using profilers and debuggers to optimize code.
  • Experience building and maintaining production code.
  • Ability to trace and solve problems across interconnected systems, pipelines and applications.
  • Experience with Git and modern CI pipelines.Nice to haves:
    • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
    • Previous startup experience$140,000 - $180,000 a yearBase pay is one element of our Total Rewards package which may also include comprehensive benefits and equity etc., depending on eligibility. The annual base salary range for this position is from $140,000 to $180,000. The actual base pay offered will be determined on factors such as years of relevant experience, skills, education etc. Decisions will be determined on a case-by-case Opportunity Employer - We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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