Senior Software Engineer, Collaborative Robots
Robotics
$180-215k
+ Equity
More information about location
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
Robotics company
Open for applications
Robotics company
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$180-215k
+ Equity
More information about location
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
21-100 employees
Company mission
To create a world where humans and robots collaborate in a trusted partnership.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- 5+ years of experience working within engineering teams
- Proficiency in C++ and Python, with a readiness to learn new languages or technologies
- Familiar with operating systems, device driver integration, real-time systems, concurrency management, and memory management
- Experience implementing production-grade, high-reliability software on a robot or similar autonomous system
- Professional work experience in autonomy, robotics, or adjacent field
- Highly motivated teammate with excellent oral and written communication skills
- Enjoy working in a fast paced, collaborative and dynamic start-up environment as part of a small team
Desirable
- Advanced degree (Master’s) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering or similar field
- Proficiency with ROS or other communication systems
- Embedded Linux or RTOS experience
- Software architecture and system integration experience
What the job involves
- Cobot is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and support the core software stack that powers our robots
- In this role, you will drive software architecture and development practices that ensure our systems are scalable, maintainable, and production-ready
- You’ll collaborate with research engineers, platform and cloud teams, and autonomy developers to deliver robust, high-performance software across a fleet of distributed robots
- Beyond writing reliable code, you’ll help shape our engineering culture—championing SDLC best practices, guiding teammates in design and implementation, and mentoring autonomy engineers
- This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments and is motivated by the challenge of bringing cutting-edge robotics into the real world
- Design, implement, integrate, and support our software stack
- Work with the other research engineers and software engineers to design and develop maintainable and testable software
- Champion SDLC practices across the software teams - design and architectural principles, development guidelines, review practices, testing practices
- Architect and implement solutions for scalability, maintainability, and performance
- Collaborate with the Platform team and Cloud Engineers for efficient, secure and scalable software delivery to our fleet of distributed robots
- Guide and mentor autonomy engineers on software development practices
- Review and refine technical requirements and translate them into high-level design & plans to support the development
Our take
Cobot is a robotics manufacturer setting out to incorporate robots into our everyday, having them work alongside us in all walks of life. It is building a collaborative robot named "Cobot", but so far remains mysterious by not disclosing any details as to what exactly it will be. It has, however, explained that its robotic systems will be neither humanoid or a mobile manipulator, instead focussing on the synergy between humans and robots - hence the titular nod to collaboration.
Collaborative robots are expected to account for about 10% of total industrial robot sales by 2025, so Cobot's target could certainly be a lucrative one. Founded in 2022, the company has already caught attention for its "Flywheel Program", that delivers hands-on experience with robotics deployments for its clients' teams.
The company is initially looking to target sectors such as bio-tech, logistics, healthcare and manufacturing and it’ll be exciting to see how this grows as the company scales. It’s still early days for Cobot, and though all the talk behind the project is thrilling, we will have to wait to see if the product lives up to both ambitions and its impressive funding rounds.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2024
$100m
SERIES B
Jul 2023
$30m
SERIES A
Total funding: $140m
Company HQ
Santa Clara, CA
Leadership
Brad Porter
(CEO & Founder)Previously CTO of Scale AI and worked for over a decade at Amazon through several roles, ultimately as VP and Distinguished Engineer of Robotics.
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