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Robotics Software Engineer

Location
Austin, TX · On-site
Job type
Full-time
Level
Senior
Experience
5+ years
Listed
22 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • C++
  • Python
  • ROS 2
  • Linux
  • sensor driver development

Also useful

  • DDS
  • hardware-in-the-loop testing

The Role

The Robotics Software Engineer connects each vehicle-specific control interface to the Hive robotics platform. This person ensures that the complete robotics software stack operates reliably on the physical machine.

The focus is system integration rather than the development of new perception or planning algorithms.

Responsibilities

  • Develop machine drivers, software adapters, and hardware abstraction interfaces.
  • Connect vehicle state, commands, sensors, diagnostics, and telemetry to the Hive platform.
  • Integrate vehicle-specific functionality with the autonomy and control stack.
  • Configure and calibrate the software platform for each machine.
  • Integrate sensors, coordinate frames, timing, networking, and data interfaces.
  • Debug issues spanning robotics software, networking, embedded controls, and physical hardware.
  • Develop automated integration, regression, simulation, and hardware-in-the-loop tests.
  • Build tools for diagnostics, telemetry analysis, logging, and commissioning.
  • Validate end-to-end system behavior on real machines.
  • Support field bring-up, testing, and customer acceptance.
  • Develop reusable software integration patterns for future vehicle platforms.
  • Work with core platform teams to improve interfaces and eliminate vehicle-specific forks.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience developing or integrating software for robotics, autonomous vehicles, or complex physical systems.
  • Strong C++ and Python development skills.
  • Strong Linux development and debugging experience.
  • Experience with robotics middleware such as ROS 2, DDS, or equivalent systems.
  • Experience developing drivers and interfaces for sensors, actuators, and embedded controllers.
  • Understanding of networking, time synchronization, coordinate frames, calibration, and telemetry.
  • Experience testing software on real robotic systems.
  • Ability to diagnose problems across hardware and software boundaries.
  • Experience with simulation, automated testing, or hardware-in-the-loop systems.
  • Willingness to work hands-on with machines and travel regularly.

About HIVE

At Hive, we're building the defining physical AI platform of the next decade.

Industrial labor is one of the most acute bottlenecks in the global economy. Operators are expensive, hard to retain, and working in environments that are increasingly unsafe. The shortage is structural. The window to solve it is now.

Our answer is a machine-agnostic intelligence platform that lets any machine, on any site, perceive, decide, and act autonomously. One platform. Any machine. No fleet replacement.

Already live across multiple sites and customers in Europe - spanning logistics and warehousing, industrial manufacturing, and large-scale chemical production - with a US expansion underway.

The vision: one operator managing hundreds of machines simultaneously. Productive machine-hour cost dropping by 80x, and unlocks the next productivity revolution in physical work.

The mission is to make productivity limitless. Come and help us build it.

Why Join HIVE?

Join Hive at a pivotal stage as we expand into the US and build a new category in Physical AI. You’ll work with cutting-edge autonomy technology and a highly experienced team to bring autonomous industrial machines out of development and into real-world commercial operations.

As we establish and scale our US operations, you’ll have the opportunity to take on significant responsibility from day one, help shape how we operate in the US, and build the playbooks for deploying and operating autonomous machines at scale..

Equal opportunity and legal notices

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and the position may be filled before the application deadline. Early applications are encouraged. Hive values diversity and encourages qualified candidates to apply regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation or background.

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