Embedded Robotics Software Engineer
Robotics and AI Institute
Full-time
On-site
Zurich, Switzerland
Software Engineer
Our Mission
Our mission is to solve the most important and fundamental challenges in AI and Robotics to enable future generations of intelligent machines that will help us all live better lives.
Embedded Robotics Software Engineers will work cross-functionally with a talented team of engineers and researchers to develop cutting-edge robotic systems. Your work will directly contribute to advancing the state of the art. We are onsite in our new Zurich office where we are building a collaborative and exciting new organization.
What You'll Do
- Responsibilities
- Work collaboratively with research, and hardware teams to design, develop, test and maintain software for embedded systems on a variety of robot applications
- Develop high performance algorithms and improve systems
- Develop and maintain low-level software and firmware for custom and 3rd party robots
- Promote quality and reliability through regular code reviews
- Work closely with electrical engineers to develop custom hardware for robotic systems.
What You'll Need
- 8+ years experience delivering robust code
- BS or MS in computer science, robotics, physics, electrical/mechanical/aerospace engineering, or a related field
- Experience with C++17 or later
- Experience with C
- Experience with git, issue tracking, CI/CD, and modern software engineering practices
- Experience working with Linux-based platforms and development environments
- Strong troubleshooting skills
- Experience implementing and troubleshooting an RTOS with hard real-time requirements on embedded microcontrollers
- Experience implementing and troubleshooting common communication protocols (CAN, I2C, SPI, RS-485, EtherCAT, etc.)
- Knowledge of synchronization and resource sharing for memory-constrained systems
- Comfortable using common electrical engineering tools (schematics, logic analyzer, oscilloscope, etc.) to evaluate and rework hardware systems
Bonus
- Experience working with robots, control, kinematics, machine learning, physics simulators, or similar applications
- Experience with data processing, logging, and visualization tools
- Experience with ROS, gRPC, LCM, or other inter-process communication middleware technologies
- Experience operating as a technical lead and providing mentorship to less experienced developers
- Experience with robot sensors (IMU, Cameras, etc.)
- Experience with FPGA and/or FPGA/ARM SOC (i.e. Zynq) programming
- Experience with gcc, cmake, clang
- Experience with bootloaders
- Experience with Python
- experience developing test and validation plans for system integration
- experience performing complex system failure analysis in cross functional teams
- experience developing Linux kernel modules
These attributes are great to have but not required for our candidates. Candidates who lack these should not be discouraged from applying.
We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.