Senior Software Engineer, Berkshire Grey
R&D
Travel: Occasional; up to 10%.
Office located in Bedford, MA
Autonomous fulfilment robots
Open for applications
Autonomous fulfilment robots
201-500 employees
Open for applications
Travel: Occasional; up to 10%.
Office located in Bedford, MA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help businesses succeed with AI-enabled robotics that transforms the way they thrive, compete and win.
Role
Who you are
- Master’s degree in Robotics, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Computer Science or a closely related field
- Experience in software development in robotics or automation roles
- Strong development expertise in Python and C++
- Experience with modern software engineering tooling and workflows including Git and CI/CD
- Experience in working with ROS or ROS2
- Experience in designing and implementing software and algorithms for real robots, including troubleshooting of real robot systems
- Work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities
- Determine and communicate justification of technical priorities
- Rapidly prototype and iterate on solutions to challenging problems
- Work independently on a variety of projects while maintaining focus
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, capable of explaining complex ideas clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Common deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch
- Robot simulators (e.g. Isaac Sim, MuJoCo)
- Robot learning frameworks (e.g. Orbit / Isaac Labs, OpenAI Gym)
- Robotic sensors, such as RGB cameras and depth sensors
- Combining model-based and data-driven approaches
- Docker, cloud computing, or similar applications
- Parallel/distributed systems and asynchronous/concurrent programming
- Production robot deployment
- Agentic coding tools
Desirable
- 3+ years of relevant software engineering experience in robotics or automation roles
- Demonstrated experience with one or multiple of:
- Computer vision applied to robotic manipulation problems, such as grasp estimation, object detection/segmentation, or anomaly detection
- Motion planning & optimization for single or bimanual manipulation
- Imitation learning for manipulation or other real world use cases
What the job involves
- As part of the Research & Advanced Development group, you will develop new approaches to solving a variety of challenging manipulation problems for real-world robotics systems, allowing them to understand and interact with their environment in unprecedented ways
- This position offers a unique opportunity to work at the cutting edge of robotics applied to real-world challenges. Your work will span the full range of this robotics stack, from robot drivers to the multi-robot orchestration system running in Berkshire Grey’s in-house robot proving ground
- Contribute to training and adapting of existing machine learning architectures for robot learning and visual scene understanding
- Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of Berkshire Grey’s robot policy learning data collection application
- Determine what demonstrations, robot logs, sensor data, annotations, and failure cases are suitable for fine-tuning robot foundation models when applied to new tasks, embodiments, or environments
- Stay abreast of the latest advancements in robotics and related fields, evaluating applicability to our challenges
- Collaborate with external research partners to find solutions for BG’s problem space
- Assist with mentorship of more junior engineers or interns
- Quickly prototype solutions, creating demos for stakeholders and visitors
- Own solutions from the prototype stage to robust, production-ready features
Our take
The boom in eCommerce over recent years has created a need for increased productivity in fulfilment, with businesses needing to scale up to remain competitive. Berkshire Grey develops and supplies AI-powered robots for warehouses and fulfilment centres, delivering intelligent, mobile robots for supply chain process automation to increase throughput, lower delivery times, and reduce costs.
Setting up robotics systems can be very costly for companies, which is why Berkshire Grey offers a Robots as a Service (RaaS) model. This enables businesses to automate their processes without a large upfront investment. By using its robots, Berkshire Grey claims, businesses can reduce picking costs by 70-80% and increase throughput by 25-35%—impressive numbers that certainly make it a strong choice for interested parties.
Despite competition from Amazon Robotics and Fetch Robotics, Berkshire Grey has carved out a niche in the growing robotics market. In 2023, the company merged with SoftBank in a $375 million go-private transaction. This merger strengthens Berkshire Grey's capabilities, streamlines operations, and maintains its competitive edge. The merger with SoftBank will enable the company to better serve its customers with its disruptive AI robotics technology, driving efficiency in its operations.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2020
$263m
SERIES B
Apr 2016
$13.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $276.5m
Company benefits
- Healthcare - Full medical, dental and vision. Life insurance, gym stipends and wellness programs
- Vacation - We value hard work and we like to have fun. Take time when you need it
- Recognition - Peer shout outs, achievement celebrations and leadership awards let you know you’ve made a difference
- Retirement - Stock options and generous 401(k) matching
- Nutrients - Lunch is delivered daily, a plethora of snacks, gourmet coffee, Soylent, and top-shelf beverages
Company HQ
Bedford, MA
Leadership
David Patatore
(CEO)Previously the CEO of Greyter Water Systems, Adjunct Professor at Brown University, CEO of Fuse and was Fractional CEO at Carbonpoint Solutions.
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