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title: "Robotics Software Engineer, Autonomy Integration"
company: "Contoro Inc."
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/contoro-inc"
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apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/contoro/fe0acfe2-10eb-4846-89cb-47ad4ebb4cc2"
workplace: onsite
location: "Austin, TX"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: mid
role: ai-machine-learning
region: united-states
skills: ["cpp", "docker", "linux", "python"]
date_posted: 2026-09-04T14:27:28.958Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-15T18:13:29.912Z
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# Robotics Software Engineer, Autonomy Integration

**Contoro Inc.** · Austin, TX

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/contoro/fe0acfe2-10eb-4846-89cb-47ad4ebb4cc2

## About the role

#### Join Contoro Robotics – Revolutionizing Warehouse Automation with Cutting-Edge Robotics

At **Contoro Robotics**, we're on a mission to solve labor challenges through advanced robotic solutions. Headquartered in **Austin, TX**, our fast-growing startup is transforming the supply chain industry with our flagship warehouse automation technology. Our team is made up of top-tier experts in **robotics, AI, and logistics**, working together to push the boundaries of automation.

We’re looking for **talented and ambitious individuals** to join us on this journey—helping shape the future of robotics while growing alongside a world-class team. If you're passionate about innovation, problem-solving, and making a real-world impact, we want to hear from you!

#### About Contoro

Contoro Robotics is an Austin-based startup focused on warehouse automation. We design and deploy autonomous truck-unloading robots that handle heavy and highly variable payloads in real customer environments.

#### The Role

We are hiring a robotics software engineer to improve how our autonomous robots execute motion and coordinate work across planning, robot control, end effectors, sensors, and material-handling equipment. You will develop production software that connects high-level autonomy decisions to reliable physical execution, with a focus on reducing cycle time, eliminating unnecessary delays, and improving recovery from real-world failures.

This role is well suited for an engineer who enjoys working across software and hardware boundaries, diagnosing system-level problems, and turning performance data into practical improvements on deployed robots.

#### Responsibilities

- Develop and improve software for robot trajectory execution, task sequencing, and hardware coordination

- Profile robot cycles and reduce delays across motion planning, trajectory execution, end-effector operation, sensing, and conveyor interaction

- Build and maintain reusable, validated robot motions for common operating scenarios and integrate them with online planning

- Extend behavior trees or state machines for autonomous task execution, event-driven coordination, fault handling, and recovery

- Integrate motion-planning outputs with industrial robot controllers, hardware interfaces, and safety constraints

- Diagnose production issues using logs, telemetry, simulation, and testing on physical robots

- Add instrumentation, automated tests, regression tests, and hardware validation for execution and autonomy software

- Collaborate with perception, motion planning, controls, hardware, test, and deployment engineers on cross-system improvements

- Participate in design reviews and contribute to system architecture and technical planning

#### Qualifications

- B.S. or M.S. in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience

- 3+ years of professional experience developing software for deployed robotic or automation systems

- Proficiency in modern C++ and Python in a production environment

- Experience developing with ROS or ROS 2 on Linux

- Hands-on experience integrating software with physical robots, actuators, sensors, or industrial automation equipment

- Working knowledge of robot kinematics, motion planning, trajectory execution, and controller interfaces

- Experience with behavior trees, state machines, or similar task-orchestration frameworks

- Strong debugging skills across software, communications, controls, and hardware interfaces

- Ability to design, test, and deliver reliable software across subsystem boundaries

#### Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with industrial manipulators such as KUKA, ABB, FANUC, Universal Robots, or similar platforms

- Experience with MoveIt, Pilz, OMPL, Ruckig, ros2_control, or comparable robotics frameworks

- Experience profiling and improving robot cycle time, throughput, latency, or trajectory execution

- Familiarity with robot communication and industrial protocols such as EtherCAT, CAN, PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, or OPC UA

- Experience with behavior-tree design, event-driven automation, or production recovery logic

- Experience building simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, or automated regression-testing systems

- Familiarity with Docker-based deployment and cloud-based logging or monitoring

- Prior work in warehouse automation, manufacturing, logistics, material handling, or robotic pick-and-place applications

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