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Senior Software Engineer – Robotics, Machine Learning & Picking Intelligence

RightHand Robotics · Charlestown, MA · On-site

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About RightHand Robotics

RightHand Robotics offers advanced robotic piece-picking technology for efficient and predictable order fulfillment. Contact us today to learn how. Backed by SoftBank VF, GV and Menlo.

About the role

We are looking for a senior robotics engineer with strong applied machine learning experience to help own and evolve the intelligence behind robotic picking in production. This is not a research role. You will build, deploy, and continuously improve perception, decision-making, and learning systems that directly affect robot performance in customer warehouses.

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years of professional experience in robotics, ML engineering, or related fields
  • Strong Python experience
  • Experience delivering production-level code
  • Hands-on experience with real-world systems, including robotics, sensors, or deployed ML
  • Strong problem-solving mindset and comfort working across system boundaries
More about this role

We are looking for a senior robotics engineer with strong applied machine learning experience to help own and evolve the intelligence behind robotic picking in production.

This is not a research role. You will build, deploy, and continuously improve perception, decision-making, and learning systems that directly affect robot performance in customer warehouses.

  • Pick success and reliability
  • Segmentation and perception quality
  • Grasp and suction selection strategies
  • Placement and exception handling
  • Overall system robustness in the real world

Depending on your strengths and interests, you will contribute across areas such as:

  • Improve pick success, reliability, and throughput across production robots
  • Build and deploy perception and segmentation models for warehouse environments
  • Develop intelligent picking, retry, and placement strategies that reduce exceptions
  • Integrate ML outputs into real-time robotic decision systems
  • Work hands-on with robots, cameras, and sensor data to harden systems
  • Use production data to continuously improve performance and robustness
  • Collaborate closely with hardware, operations, product, and customer teams

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