Senior Software Engineer, Robotics at Berkshire Grey in Bedford, Massachusetts
- Company: Berkshire Grey
- Location: Bedford, Massachusetts
- Posted: Sep 20, 2026
- Type: Full-time
- Salary: $112k-$180k
- Experience: 6+ years
Overview
Berkshire Grey is a leader in the field of AI and robotics, providing innovative solutions for e-commerce, retail replenishment, and logistics. Our technology automates complex pick, pack, and sort operations. In the role of Senior Software Engineer, Robotics, focusing on manipulation, you will play…
Job description
- Berkshire Grey is a leader in the field of AI and robotics, providing innovative solutions for e-commerce, retail replenishment, and logistics. Our technology automates complex pick, pack, and sort operations.
- In the role of Senior Software Engineer, Robotics, focusing on manipulation, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the capabilities of our robotic solutions. Your work will involve developing advanced software that enables robots to interact with their environments in completing complex, real-world tasks.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and support advanced robotic manipulation software deployed in production environments.
- Create high-performance software solutions for robotic manipulation, focusing on motion planning, kinematics, control strategies and motion execution, to enhance our robotic solutions.
- Utilize and extend simulation software environments to test and refine manipulation development, ensuring expected and robust performance.
- Work closely with hardware engineers, product managers, and other software teams to integrate capabilities into our broader robotic systems.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers.
- Clearly and proactively communicate technical priorities and status.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Computer Science, or a closely related field.
- 4+ years of professional software development experience in a production environment.
- Strong development expertise in Python.
- Understanding parallel/distributed systems and asynchronous/concurrent programming.
- Experience in designing and implementing software and algorithms for motion planning, motion execution, multi-arm coordination, robotic kinematics, and/or environment representation.
- Experience in designing and developing RESTful interfaces, gRPC services/clients, etc.
- Familiarity with system design principles and design patterns.
- Strong drive to deliver well-designed, well-implemented and well-tested solutions to meet internal and external requirements.
- Ability to handle ambiguous or ill-defined problems, and scope, plan and implement solutions for them.
- Experience with version control (Git), code reviews, issue tracking (Jira) and automated testing (unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop).
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team setting and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Master’s degree in Robotics, Computer Science or a closely related field.
- 6+ years of experience in software development in a production environment.
- Experience with ROS/ROS2.
- Experience with development and integration of drivers for robotic hardware, particularly robotic arms.
- Familiarity with robotics simulation tools and test environments.
- Familiarity with the Linux ecosystem.
- Familiarity with Python’s asyncio library.
- Programming experience in C++.
- Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB).
Skills
Required
- Python
- Parallel/distributed systems
- Asynchronous/concurrent programming
- RESTful interfaces
- gRPC services/clients
- System design principles
- Design patterns
- Version control (Git)
- Code reviews
- Issue tracking (Jira)
Preferred
- ROS/ROS2
- Robotic hardware drivers
- Robotic arms
- Robotics simulation tools
- Linux ecosystem
- Python's asyncio library
- C++
- NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB)
Benefits
- Base salary range $112k-$180k