Senior Software Engineer – Robotics, Machine Learning & Picking Intelligence

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.

You'll work across robotics, ML, and system architecture to improve:

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

We're looking for a senior-level engineer who is either strong across robotics and ML — or very strong in one with the ability and curiosity to grow in the other.

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

Work on robots in production, not demos

Make tangible impact in a small, senior team

Solve challenging real-world robotics + ML problems

High ownership, high trust engineering culture

Flexible work environment

At RightHand Robotics, we build intelligent robotic piece-picking systems that operate in real warehouses, at real scale, every day. Our robots don't live in demos or research labs, they power production fulfillment across thousands of SKUs and demanding customer environments.

We are a small, highly practical engineering team focused on shipping reliable, scalable automation that delivers measurable customer value.

If you're excited by solving hard real-world robotics problems, working hands-on with robots, and seeing your work deployed quickly, this role is for you.