Jobs at Pickle Robot Company

Lead planning and delivery of complex software programs for Pickle's robotics platform. Coordinate cross-functional teams (software, robotics, firmware, hardware), manage risks and dependencies, run planning and release activities, improve processes and tracking, and drive alignment to deliver production-quality robotic software in a fast-paced startup.

Lead a team developing navigation and mobility control algorithms for autonomous mobile robots. Design scalable software architecture, integrate robotics capabilities across hardware and software systems, mentor engineers, and support navigation features for deployed robot fleets. The role requires expertise in motion planning, controls, robot kinematics and dynamics, graph search, mathematical optimization, collision avoidance, and performance debugging. Work is hybrid, with at least three days per week in the Charlestown, Massachusetts office.

Own robotic grasping intelligence by designing bespoke neural networks, building cloud training and evaluation pipelines, deploying models to robot fleets, and improving performance through field telemetry. Develop simulation-first manipulation strategies using robotics concepts including motion planning, kinematics, geometry, and perception. Collaborate with perception and motion-planning engineers while setting technical direction for a small applied ML team.

Develop production-grade robotics perception software for warehouse robots using 3D LiDAR and multisensor data. Own localization, state estimation, obstacle mapping, point-cloud processing, sensor calibration, and integration of machine-learning outputs. Optimize real-time edge-compute pipelines and make system-level architectural decisions for dynamic physical environments.

The Simulation Software Engineer will develop and maintain simulation environments, improve workflows, and ensure reliability and accessibility of robotics simulations.

The Physical AI Architect will design and oversee the implementation of perception, planning, and control systems in robotics, focusing on optimal control and diffusion-based AI techniques while ensuring successful hardware integration.

Lead technical vision and architecture for motion planning and controls for autonomous unload robots. Solve advanced planning and control problems (RRT, trajectory optimization, contact-aware control), convert research into production, write production-grade Python/C++, set engineering standards, design tests/benchmarks, analyze field failures, and mentor engineers. Hybrid role in Boston with occasional customer travel.

Design, build, and productionize motion planning software for mobile manipulators and AMRs; deploy, benchmark, and validate planners across fleet compute platforms; create simulation CI to catch regressions; debug and tune on real hardware at customer sites; collaborate with perception, hardware, firmware, and deployment teams; write production-grade Python and C++ software meeting strict reliability, latency, and safety requirements.

Lead Talent Acquisition and People Operations, manage recruiters and People partners, own workforce planning, org design, succession planning, and candidate experience. Build automations, scale people programs and systems, develop managers, oversee compensation, benefits, HR operations, compliance, and People systems, and use people analytics to improve organizational effectiveness and decision-making.

The Backend Software Engineer designs and builds backend services for task planning and robotic workflows, ensuring performance and reliability in robotic systems.