{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"e1cc39adc2c34c09bf4673f0","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/e1cc39adc2c34c09bf4673f0","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/e1cc39adc2c34c09bf4673f0","title":"Robotics Software Engineer, Autonomy Integration","description":"Location\n\nAustin, TX\n\nEmployment Type\n\nFull time\n\nLocation Type\n\nOn-site\n\nDepartment\n\nAutomation Engineering\nJoin Contoro Robotics – Revolutionizing Warehouse Automation with Cutting-Edge Robotics\n\nAt Contoro Robotics, we're on a mission to solve labor challenges through advanced robotic solutions. Headquartered in Austin, TX, our fast-growing startup is transforming the supply chain industry with our flagship warehouse automation technology. Our team is made up of top-tier experts in robotics, AI, and logistics, working together to push the boundaries of automation.\n\nWe’re looking for talented and ambitious individuals to join us on this journey—helping shape the future of robotics while growing alongside a world-class team. If you're passionate about innovation, problem-solving, and making a real-world impact, we want to hear from you!\n\nAbout Contoro\n\nContoro Robotics is an Austin-based startup focused on warehouse automation. We design and deploy autonomous truck-unloading robots that handle heavy and highly variable payloads in real customer environments.\n\nThe Role\n\nWe are hiring a robotics software engineer to improve how our autonomous robots execute motion and coordinate work across planning, robot control, end effectors, sensors, and material-handling equipment. You will develop production software that connects high-level autonomy decisions to reliable physical execution, with a focus on reducing cycle time, eliminating unnecessary delays, and improving recovery from real-world failures.\n\nThis role is well suited for an engineer who enjoys working across software and hardware boundaries, diagnosing system-level problems, and turning performance data into practical improvements on deployed robots.\n\nResponsibilities\n\nDevelop and improve software for robot trajectory execution, task sequencing, and hardware coordination\n\nProfile robot cycles and reduce delays across motion planning, trajectory execution, end-effector operation, sensing, and conveyor interaction\n\nBuild and maintain reusable, validated robot motions for common operating scenarios and integrate them with online planning\n\nExtend behavior trees or state machines for autonomous task execution, event-driven coordination, fault handling, and recovery\n\nIntegrate motion-planning outputs with industrial robot controllers, hardware interfaces, and safety constraints\n\nDiagnose production issues using logs, telemetry, simulation, and testing on physical robots\n\nAdd instrumentation, automated tests, regression tests, and hardware validation for execution and autonomy software\n\nCollaborate with perception, motion planning, controls, hardware, test, and deployment engineers on cross-system improvements\n\nParticipate in design reviews and contribute to system architecture and technical planning\n\nQualifications\n\nB.S. or M.S. in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience\n\n3+ years of professional experience developing software for deployed robotic or automation systems\n\nProficiency in modern C++ and Python in a production environment\n\nExperience developing with ROS or ROS 2 on Linux\n\nHands-on experience integrating software with physical robots, actuators, sensors, or industrial automation equipment\n\nWorking knowledge of robot kinematics, motion planning, trajectory execution, and controller interfaces\n\nExperience with behavior trees, state machines, or similar task-orchestration frameworks\n\nStrong debugging skills across software, communications, controls, and hardware interfaces\n\nAbility to design, test, and deliver reliable software across subsystem boundaries\n\nPreferred Qualifications\n\nExperience with industrial manipulators such as KUKA, ABB, FANUC, Universal Robots, or similar platforms\n\nExperience with MoveIt, Pilz, OMPL, Ruckig, ros2_control, or comparable robotics frameworks\n\nExperience profiling and improving robot cycle time, throughput, latency, or trajectory execution\n\nFamiliarity with robot communication and industrial protocols such as EtherCAT, CAN, PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, or OPC UA\n\nExperience with behavior-tree design, event-driven automation, or production recovery logic\n\nExperience building simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, or automated regression-testing systems\n\nFamiliarity with Docker-based deployment and cloud-based logging or monitoring\n\nPrior work in warehouse automation, manufacturing, logistics, material handling, or robotic pick-and-place applications","company":"Contoro","rawCompany":"contoro","city":"Austin","state":"TX","isRemote":false,"isActive":true,"createdAt":"2026-09-06T13:29:34.569Z","occupations":[{"code":"17-2199.08","title":"Robotics Engineers","slug":"robotics-engineers"},{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"17-3024.01","title":"Robotics Technicians","slug":"robotics-technicians"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"333248","title":"All Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing","slug":"all-other-industrial-machinery-manufacturing"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Robotics Software Engineer, Autonomy Integration","description":"Location\n\nAustin, TX\n\nEmployment Type\n\nFull time\n\nLocation Type\n\nOn-site\n\nDepartment\n\nAutomation Engineering\nJoin Contoro Robotics – Revolutionizing Warehouse Automation with Cutting-Edge Robotics\n\nAt Contoro Robotics, we're on a mission to solve labor challenges through advanced robotic solutions. 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