Senior Robotics Software Engineer - Autonomy Architecture

About the role

The autonomy team at Gravis architects autonomous behaviors for construction machinery tasks. This role owns the architecture that enables these behaviors to coexist within a unified software stack, focusing on task decomposition, orchestration, and software quality. You will make pragmatic architectural decisions to ensure the system remains stable and scalable as it grows.

Responsibilities

• Own the task-level architecture shared across autonomous behaviors
• Define clear module boundaries and responsibilities between behavior orchestration
• Implement component tests and telemetry/metrics collection pipelines
• Identify technical debt to guide the team toward sustainable solutions
• Act as the go-to person for software quality, including modern C++ practices and error handling
• Design an extensible and testable module for deploying policies
• Provide technical leadership on C++ and Python tooling
• Work with the simulation team to unify training, benchmarking, and evaluation tooling

Required skills

• C++
• Python
• Software Architecture
• Robotics
• System Design

Nice to have

• Behavior trees
• State machines
• Motion planning
• Geometric algorithms
• Spatial data structures

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field

About the Company

Gravis Robotics is a high-growth Series A start-up backed by SoftBank, bringing Physical AI to the construction industry. Originating as an ETH Zurich spin-out, the company develops machine-agnostic retrofit kits that add autonomy to heavy construction equipment.