Compensation Overview

About Berkshire Grey

Berkshire Grey helps customers radically change the essential way they do business by delivering game-changing technology that combines AI and robotics to automate fulfillment, supply chain, and logistics operations. Berkshire Grey solutions are a fundamental engine of change that transforms pick, pack, move, store, organize, and sort operations to deliver competitive advantage for enterprises serving today’s connected consumers. Berkshire Grey customers include Global 100 retailers and logistics service providers.

About This Position/Team

You will be joining a robotics software engineering team working on developing new cutting-edge back-end robotic picking solutions to do a variety of complex manipulation tasks.  If you have a start-up mentality, like to get things done, stick with things until you figure it out and are motivated by delivering working products to customers, then this might be a good fit for you.  The robotic application includes the high-level logic that controls the system and ties everything together.  You will be solving a variety of robotic problems including software behaviors and systems intelligence such as planning, perception, inference, error handling and estimation. 

Responsibilities/Functions include:

• Working with a multidisciplinary team to develop software for robotic applications related to robotic manipulation as applied to store replenishment and e-commerce order fulfillment.\
• Designing, prototyping, implementing, testing, and maintaining software that integrates and enhances robotic capabilities to deliver product features
• Being a primary contributor and leader driving to real-world customer delivery, acceptance, and operation

Skills/Technical Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a similar field of study
• 5+ years’ experience in backend application software development
• Commercial experience in a fast paced, agile environment
• Demonstrated ability to:
  • Provide technical leadership on key projects
  • Architect component-level software solutions
  • Operate autonomously
  • Determine and communicate justification of technical priorities to management
  • Navigate and contribute to existing large, complex codebase
  • Design and run real robot experiments, analyze results
• MVP mentality: prioritize functionality and go from simple to complex
• Technical communication to all levels: write summaries, tutorials, present results to the team to help inform design decisions
• Proficient in:
  • Python
  • C++
  • System design
  • VCS (Git)
  • Issue tracking system (Jira)
  • Linux-like environment (Ubuntu)
  • Code reviews
  • Design patterns (Producer-consumer, Modular and configurable, Robust and error-aware, etc.)

 Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated ability in one or more of the following:
  • Code documentation that can stand the test of time
  • Parameter server (zookeeper)
  • Software testing (pytest)
  • Process management, containers (docker, k8s)
• Within the robotics space:
  • Basic knowledge of motion planning, controls
  • Robot simulation, visualization
  • Experience with real sensors, robots
• Basic data analysis (logging, profiling, statistics, pandas)
• Parallel/distributed systems
• Asynchronous/concurrent programming (asyncio)
• NoSQL databases (MongoDB)
• Messaging Systems (gRPC, Kafka)
• CI/CD (Jenkins, automated testing)
• Warehouse Management/Control Systems (WMS/WCS)
• API development (RESTful, websockets) Robotics and robotic solutions

This position is on-site in Bedford, MA for the first 6 months, and then can work remotely up to 2 days a week.

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