Senior Robotics Software Developer
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Job Description
Promise Robotics is pioneering Physical AI for homebuilding — a rapidly growing, venture-backed company bringing together AI, robotics, and manufacturing to help the homebuilding industry meet the growing demand for housing. Our robotic systems, built and operated inside AI-powered factories, give the industry the production capacity, consistency, and speed to build more high-quality homes than traditional methods allow. Our team spans AI researchers and roboticists to factory operators, technicians, and production teams — all building the future of homebuilding together.
We’re building physical AI for housing — and unlike most of the field, our robots are already in production, fabricating real structures and generating real operational data every day across multiple factories.
We’relooking for aSeniorRobotics Software Developer to join our team and contribute to developingcutting-edgesolutions for our core robotic manufacturing technologies.This is a senior IC role with architectural ownership and mentorship responsibility.
Why join us?
- Purpose-Driven Work:Contribute to projects with significant social, economic, and environmental impact.
- Growth Opportunities:Be part of a growth-stage startup with substantial upside and leadership potential.
- Cutting-EdgeTechnology:Work onstate-of-the-artrobotics solutions at the intersection of construction and automation.
- Collaborative Culture:Join a diverse, high-performing team committed to continuous learning and innovation.
What you’ll do:
- Lead thedevelopmentof roboticsimulators -set up and extend simulation environments and test scenarios that mirror our production cells.
- Lead theeffortin motion planning and optimization - develop andoptimizemotion-planning and collision-checking behaviors in ROS 2 / MoveIt2.
- Developperceptioncomponents - implement object detection, pose estimation, and point-cloud processing tasks for material handling and inspection.
- Write clean, tested code - produce well-documented C++ and Python, backed by unit and integration tests.
- Debug integration issues - help troubleshoot software-hardware issues alongside the robotics and hardware teams.
- Set the engineering bar -define standards for architecture, testing, and code quality; lead code reviews; mentor junior and mid-level developers.
What you’ll need to succeed:
- Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Mechatronics, or related fields (Masters/Ph.D. preferred)plus 5+ years of relevant robotics software experience.
- Expert-level C++ and Python,witha track recordof shipping production-quality robotics software.
- Strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and basic control concepts.
- Deep ROS 2 and MoveIt2 experience -motion planning, collision checking, and trajectory optimization (e.g., OMPL, CHOMP/STOMP/TrajOpt-style approaches).
- Ability to solve complex problems involving multi-disciplinary engineering concepts.
- Strong hands-on experience with arobotics simulator(Gazebo, Isaac Sim,MuJoCo, or similar) including physics simulation.
- Exposure to computer vision or perception concepts.
- Eagerness to learn, take feedback, and work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced startup.
- Willingness to work onsite at our R&D labs and production facilitiesinEdmonton and Calgary, Alberta.
Preferred Skills:
- Experiential knowledge usingIsaac Sim/ Omniverseorsimilar simulation tools.
- Applied or research experiencewithvision-language-action (VLA) models(e.g.,OpenVLA, 0, RT-2-style) orLLM-based task and motion planning.
- Industrial robot programming (KUKA, ABB, or Fanuc) and familiarity with vendor sensor/communication interfaces.
- Sensor systems: industrial cameras, depth sensors, LiDAR, force/torque sensors, laser range finders/projectors.
- Digital-twin technologies for validation and predictive maintenance.
- Machine learning / deep learning applied to robotics.
- Working knowledge ofCSAZ434andISO10218-2safety standards