About the role
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain robust, scalable software systems for production automation
- Build core libraries and services supporting motion planning, control, and perception pipelines
- Architect clean interfaces between software components and hardware-facing systems
- Develop vision and sensor-integration software that feeds downstream planning and control stacks
- Optimize software for performance, reliability, and deterministic behavior where required
- Write high-quality, testable Python code with strong emphasis on readability, correctness, and maintainability
- Own software engineering best practices: code reviews, testing strategies, CI/CD, and release processes
- Build simulation, testing, and tooling infrastructure to validate behavior prior to deployment
- Collaborate with robotics, controls, and hardware engineers to translate system requirements into well-defined software abstractions
- Contribute to architectural decisions as the software platform scales across customers and deployments
Minimum Qualifications
- B.S. in Computer Science or a related engineering field
- Strong software engineering experience, especially in Python
- Experience designing and maintaining complex software systems (services, libraries, APIs, or pipelines)
- Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and systems design
- Proficiency with Git, debugging, testing frameworks, and modern development workflows
- Ability to work independently on ambiguous problems in a fast-paced environment
- Due to U.S. export control regulations (ITAR), this position is limited to U.S. Persons (U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents)
Optional Qualifications
- M.S. in Computer Science or a related field
- Experience working on systems that interact with hardware, real-time constraints, or external devices
- Familiarity with robotics, motion planning, control systems, or computer vision (helpful but not required)
- Experience with ROS or similar middleware
- Knowledge of performance optimization, concurrency, or distributed systems
- Experience deploying software to edge, embedded, or hybrid cloud environments
About Pivot Robotics
AI for Robot Arms in Factories
Required skills
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Python
Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Other roles at Pivot Robotics
Job details
Salary
$120,000 - $160,000
Location
San Francisco, CA
Experience
1+ years
Funding
Total raised
$500K
Last stage
Seed
Investors
NNuVentures
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
01
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
02
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
03
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.
