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You will work across the stack from high-level decision-making (planning) down to low-level hardware control (real-time + embedded integration), partnering closely with robotics, hardware, and field/service teams to deliver systems that are safe, resilient, and maintainable in the physical world.What You’ll Do:Production software: Design and implement production-quality robotics software in C++ (modern C++ 17 or newer) and Python. Concurrency + real-time: Build multi-threaded systems where timing, synchronization, and resource locking matter (mutexes, semaphores). Hardware integration: Interface directly with sensors, actuators, and microcontrollers under real-time constraints (RTOS or Preempt-RT Linux). Robustness + safety: Design for failures, not happy paths: fault detection, graceful recovery, and safe behavior under unexpected hardware conditions. Robotics middleware: Build and maintain systems using ROS1/ROS2 (nodes, topics, services, actions). Subsystem ownership: Own and evolve key subsystems such as motion control, trajectory execution, planning interfaces, or safety monitoring. Cross-team execution: Collaborate with hardware, perception, and service teams to ship reliable behavior to production deployments. Who You Are:Education and experience: 5+ years of real-world experience in Robotics and a BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Applied Math. Math/robotics fundamentals: Strong understanding of linear algebra and 3D geometry (transformations, quaternions/Euler angles), kinematics, and rigid-body dynamics. C++ and Python: Strong software engineering fundamentals in modern C++ (STL, templates, memory management) and Python. Concurrency: Proven ability to write thread-safe code and reason about race conditions, deadlocks, and IPC. Embedded + systems: Experience with embedded systems (bare-metal, RTOS like FreeRTOS/Zephyr, or embedded Linux) and common buses (I2C, SPI, UART, CAN). Comfortable operating in ambiguity, making tradeoffs quickly, and debugging issues at the software/hardware boundary. Preferred Qualifications: Controller development: Implemented custom controllers (torque, impedance, admittance) or tuning/owning control loops. Planning + optimization: Experience with MPC, convex optimization, or sampling-based planners (A*/RRT/optimization-based planning). Perception interfaces: Experience defining clean interfaces between perception outputs and planning/control consumers. 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