Senior Software Engineer, R&D

About The Job Berkshire Grey is a leader in the field of AI and robotics, providing innovative solutions for e-commerce, retail replenishment, package handling, and logistics operations. Our technology automates complex warehouse tasks such as picking, packing, sorting, and trailer unloading. 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. Responsibilities - 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 Minimum Qualifications: - 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 - Demonstrated ability to: - 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 Preferred Qualifications: - 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 - Experience with: - 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 Possessing some of these preferred qualifications is great to have but not required and should not discourage applicants from applying. Travel: Occasional; up to 10%. 6110-2606JL