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Robotics Integration/Controls Engineer
Lightspeed
1,001-5,000 employees
Cloud-based POS and payments for SMBs
No salary listed
Northbrook, IL, USA
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- Hands-on experience in robotics or industrial controls, including robot-arm or automated-cell bring-up and integration, motion control, programmable logic controllers or industrial automation, and sensor and actuator integration in a physical setting.
- Experience with real-time integration, including control loops, input/output, streaming machine state, device and job state modeling, and telemetry using WebSockets, server-sent events, publish/subscribe, fieldbus, or equivalent technologies.
- Programming experience with Python and/or C++ for robotics and integration work, along with general scripting ability.
- Ability to build software around hardware, including application programming interfaces, services, and a basic data layer; the stack uses Node, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL.
- Ability to work pragmatically in a demo-driven, early-stage environment and own ambiguous problems.
- Bring up and integrate robot arms and the surrounding control system, including designing and tuning motion, tooling, sequencing, and safety logic.
- Integrate sensors, actuators, and input/output; build the real-time control and telemetry layer; stream motion and sensor data; model job and device state as explicit state machines; and expose an application programming interface contract for the application and operator console.
- Stand up and maintain a simulation environment that mirrors the physical cell so work can proceed in parallel with hardware and demonstrations do not depend on a single robot.
- Integrate vision and perception where required by the task.
- Write supporting software around the robotics and controls, including services, scripts, and application programming interfaces.
- Coordinate with the application team against a shared control-plane contract.
- Experience building and debugging real Robot Operating System or Robot Operating System 2 nodes, topics, and control loops.
- Experience with simulation frameworks such as Isaac Sim, Gazebo, or MuJoCo, including standing up a simulation that meaningfully mirrors real hardware.
- Experience applying artificial intelligence or machine learning in robotics, including learned policies, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, or vision-language-action-style models.
- Experience with vision and perception, including object detection, pose estimation, hand-eye calibration, simultaneous localization and mapping, or other spatial and localization work, especially on mobile platforms.
- Experience with functional safety, including emergency-stop logic, safety-rated input/output, and risk assessment for automated equipment.
Lightspeed provides subscription-based software and payment solutions for small and medium-sized retailers and restaurants. Its cloud-based platform combines point-of-sale, inventory, CRM, loyalty, analytics, and payments into an integrated system usable across stores, websites, and mobile apps. The product works by serving as a single, multi-channel suite that handles sales, inventory, orders, and customer data, with payments processed within the same platform. Lightspeed differentiates itself by offering a broad, unified platform for both retail and hospitality with global reach, reducing the need for separate point solutions. The company's goal is to help SMBs grow by simplifying operations, improving customer engagement, and increasing revenue through a scalable, technology-driven model.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Montreal, Canada
Founded
2005
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Q1 fiscal 2027 revenue hit C$322.7 million, beating estimates and guidance.
- Payments penetration reached 49% in growth engines, lifting transaction revenue 20%.
- July 2026 buybacks returned C$86 million, signaling cash discipline and confidence.
What critics are saying
- Product and technology headcount fell 10% after July 2026 cuts, risking execution slippage.
- Toast, Shopify, and Clover compress pricing, threatening merchant wins and payments attach rates.
- If payments attach stalls, Lightspeed reverts to a low-growth POS vendor by 2027.
What makes Lightspeed unique
- Lightspeed’s POS, payments, capital, and NuORDER stack deepens merchant workflows.
- Meta Conversions API gives brick-and-mortar retailers offline attribution competitors still lack.
- North American retail and European hospitality now drive Lightspeed’s fastest revenue growth.
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