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title: 'Robotics Software Engineer at Summer Robotics'
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last_seen: '2026-09-08'
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# Robotics Software Engineer at Summer Robotics

- **Company:** Summer Robotics
- **Location:** Campbell
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/summer-robotics/a5385ed5-2c06-4329-95cf-235614c745ea

## Job description

## Responsibilities

- Develop and maintain robot software systems for industrial assembly and inspection

applications

- Integrate cameras and sensors including calibration, coordinate frame management, and data pipelines
- Implement and debug coordinate transforms, hand-eye calibration, and rigid body math in production software
- Build production-quality C++ and Python software for real-time robotic systems
- Architect multi-process and multi-threaded systems for reliable robot operation
- Collaborate with algorithms and perception engineers to deploy 3D vision capabilities on

robot platforms

- Develop testing, debugging, and deployment infrastructure for robot software

## Minimum Qualifications

- Strong C++ skills (STL, multithreading, memory management) and Python proficiency
- Practical knowledge of 3D transforms, rotation representations, and camera/robot

calibration

- Experience integrating sensors and actuators on physical robot systems
- Comfortable with Linux development, Git, CMake, and CI/CD workflows
- Familiarity with real-time constraints and performance-critical code
- MS or higher in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
- 3+ years of professional experience developing software for robotic systems mindset
- Thrives in a fast-paced startup, comfortable owning projects end-to-end
- Passionate about building robots that work in the real world, not just in simulation
- Strong debugging instincts — can trace a problem from unexpected robot behavior back

through transforms, timing, and sensor data

- Comfortable with in-office collaboration (5 days/week in Campbell, CA)

Value Add

- Experience with ROS/ROS2 or similar robotics middleware
- Experience with industrial robotics, robot arms, or manufacturing automation
- Familiarity with motion planning frameworks (MoveIt, OMPL)
- Knowledge of gRPC, Protobuf, or similar IPC frameworks
- Experience with Docker, containerized deployment, and embedded compute (Jetson)
- Exposure to simulation environments (Gazebo, MuJoCo, Isaac Sim)

## About Summer Robotics

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Summer Robotics builds a laser-event sensing platform that gives robots superhuman 3D vision, enabling 100-micron precision and 20-millisecond reaction times to handle moving parts without cameras.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Campbell, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Schuyler Cullen (CEO) and Dirk Smits

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Industrial robotics, machine vision, manufacturing automation, artificial intelligence
- **Target customers**: B2B; enterprises in automotive, electronics, logistics, construction, agriculture, food prep, and test & measurement sectors that need high-speed, camera-free robotic perception for tasks like fastening, screwdriving, dispensing, 3D inspection, pick-and-place, and obstacle avoidance.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To imbue robotic systems with superhuman perception and response capabilities, unlocking new possibilities in manufacturing and mobility to dramatically improve quality of life.

## Products & Services
- **Kortx™ Platform**: An event-based 3D vision intelligence system that combines laser-event sensors with advanced AI. It enables robots to respond 4x faster with 10x better 3D resolution than conventional camera-based solutions. Capabilities include scanning/measuring 3D surfaces at 100Hz with 100um precision, recognizing parts of any shape/size/material under any lighting/motion, and adapting in real-time. Setup takes 30 minutes.
- **Key Use Cases**: Eliminating jigs/fixtures, reducing cycle times, enabling dynamic toolpaths for moving workpieces (fastening, dispensing, inspection, pick-and-place), 3D surface modeling, cable insertion, and obstacle avoidance.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised is approximately $6.19M (conflicting reports: $4.79M from one source)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Applied Ventures, LLC (lead Series A investor); key partner is Terranet (announced new funding in Oct 2025)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 45.5% year-over-year (from ~13 to ~19 employees); posted 4 active job openings (up 300% YoY); secured Series A funding in late 2025; LinkedIn followers grew 68% YoY; active patent portfolio (10+ patents in event sensing, 3D capture, robotic vision)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Camera-free perception**: Proprietary laser-event sensing technology avoids the latency, lighting sensitivity, and motion-blur limitations of traditional cameras. Animals don’t have faster cameras — they have faster perception systems; Summer Robotics applies this principle to robots.
- **Speed and precision**: 5X-10X faster reaction times (20ms) than camera-based solutions, with 100um metrology-grade precision and 100Hz tracking.
- **Universal part compatibility**: Recognizes parts of all shapes, sizes, and materials under any lighting and motion.
- **Patented IP**: A robust portfolio of patents covering event sensors, 3D acquisition, calibration, and foveated vision systems.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling commercial deployment**: Following the Series A raise, the company is focused on deploying Kortx across high-value manufacturing verticals (automotive, electronics, logistics).
- **Expanding into new industries**: Targeting construction, agriculture, and food prep as next frontiers for robotic tradesmen.
- **Growing the technical team**: Active hiring for senior algorithms engineers, field applications engineers, and DevOps/IT engineers to support product development and customer onboarding.

## Why Work Here
- **Cutting-edge technology**: Work on a novel perception stack that eschews cameras for laser-event sensors — a fundamentally different approach to robotic vision.
- **High growth stage**: With recent Series A funding and aggressive hiring, engineers can have outsized impact on product direction and company trajectory.
- **Technical stack**: Python, CUDA, NVIDIA, Jenkins, Docker, Terraform, React, Linux, C/C++, CMake — strong emphasis on performance-critical and AI/ML work.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Not explicitly stated; HQ is in Campbell, CA (Silicon Valley) with 4 US-based offices.
- **Culture**: Small team (~19 people) with a tight-knit, mission-driven culture focused on solving hard perception problems. Recent hires from Tesla, Samsung, Anthropic, and Stanford.
- **Perks**: Opportunity to work alongside founders and industry veterans; direct exposure to customers in manufacturing and mobility.

## Sources
1. [summerrobotics.ai](https://www.summerrobotics.ai/)
2. [LinkedIn - Summer Robotics](https://www.linkedin.com/company/summer-robotics)
3. [Tracxn - Summer Robotics](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/summerrobotics/__C44PTT87B1PVEodJmtWyKTfpP97qPWakkGm8cRcMTMY)
4. [Jobs page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/summer-robotics)
5. [Yahoo Finance - Correction announcement](https://finance.yahoo.com/)
6. [MarketScreener - Terranet partner news](https://www.marketscreener.com/)

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