Software Engineer, Robotic Controls (Real-time Systems)

Key Skills

AI Robotic systems, C Programming, C++, Design, Docker, Linux Operating system, Software Development

Job Description

Your New Role and Team

Our Controls Engineering team is looking to hire an additional Software Engineer. Reporting to the Controls Engineering Lead, you’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of our existing control systems and iterate to improve our testing cadence and team performance.

The best candidates for this role have excellent quality programming skills and hands-on experience with developing real-time robotic systems. You’ll be a valued team resource as you work with a wide variety of software systems, tackling challenges that include abstracting robot platforms for development and production, data and signals processing, the development of a real-time control architecture, and various levels of control systems. Your efforts in writing, debugging, maintaining, and documenting code will contribute to our human-like intelligence platform.

Our Success Criteria

• Bring hands-on experience in designing, implementing, documenting, and maintaining a real-time framework to robot control
• Gain cutting edge career experience as you build and monitor the performance of controls architecture and diagnose/resolve technical issues with the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots

Your Skills & Qualifications

Skills and Qualifications

• Minimum BSc/BEng degree in computer science, physics, engineering, or equivalent
• Minimum 3+ years of Robotics software experience
• Expert skills in C/C++ programming languages
• Experience with ROS2 and/or DDS
• Knowledge of distributed controls or network protocols (Ethernet, EtherCAT, etc)
• Experience in software development with hard real-time constraints for Linux
• Has knowledge of Robot kinematics and dynamics.
• Experience working on complex software engineering problems as part of a team
• Familiar with Docker

Traits

• Above all else, a consistently positive attitude and a willingness to do whatever it takes to create robust solutions to complex problems
• Eager to take on new challenges with tenacity and positivity
• Fast learner; able to adapt to evolving processes and guidelines
• Patience, persistence, and attention to detail when resolving performance issues
• Obsession with bringing human-like intelligence to machines

Working at Sanctuary

Sanctuary is an equal opportunity employer; employment with Sanctuary is governed based on skills, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced in any way by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.

Benefits

Full time (non co-op) employees enjoy medical/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, wellness programs, stock options, paid time off (3 weeks vacation accrued annually, 12 paid holidays, 5 days of annual sick leave, and parental leave), scheduling and worksite flexibility by role, and more.