Robotics Software Engineer at Pickle Robot Company (Charlestown, MA)Robotics Software Engineer

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.

• 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

• 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