Join our Team - Senior Robotics Software Engineer

At Apricity Robotics we strive to harness the power of AI and robotics to bring the warmth of hope and healing, revolutionizing healthcare and transforming challenging situations into opportunities for growth and progress. Our robot is improving sonographers’ quality of life and improving the quality of ultrasound scans. Our team is differentiated by its expertise in creativity, engineering, and delivering robots with advanced intelligence, dexterity, and care – specifically designed to work alongside people, in existing environments. Every day, we embrace challenging problems, developing new solutions and practical implementations that make robots intuitive and exceptional co-workers. We approach our work with passion, making every day an adventure.

About The Role
We are looking for a seasoned and visionary engineer to join our team as Senior Robotics Software Engineer. This role, located in person in Columbus, Ohio, will lead the development of the core robot software architectures that enable robust, safe, reliable, and intelligent behavior in our robotic platforms. You will define and implement the core infrastructure of our robot software platform, enabling advanced capabilities in kinematics, vision, sensor fusion, and controls. Your solutions will be essential to delivering responsive, capable, and reliable systems that operate around patients and become an extension of sonographers.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the architecture, development, and performance of the full robotics software stack—
  including path planning, state estimation, sensor fusion, whole-body control, manipulation, and
  safety.

• Write clear, well-documented code that is easily understood and maintained by other
  team members.

• Ensure seamless integration of perception, planning, and control components to enable robust
  robot operation in complex, semi-structured environments.

• Drive the development of software frameworks that support extensibility, modularity, and
  scalability across robot platforms and hardware variants.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with hardware, applications, product, and systems teams to define
  and deliver key robot capabilities, performance benchmarks, and feature milestones.

• Champion quality, reliability, and real-time performance throughout the robotics stack, with
  particular emphasis on safety-critical applications.

• Set technical strategy, engineering standards, and development processes that enable rapid
  iteration while ensuring long-term maintainability.

• Foster a high-performance, collaborative culture.

• Stay ahead of emerging trends in robotics autonomy, controls, and AI, and identify strategic
  opportunities to adopt and integrate new technologies.

• Mentor talented robotics software engineers, fostering their technical and professional
  development.

About You

• Degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a
  related technical discipline.

• 5+ years of experience delivering production robotics systems, ideally with real-world deployment
  at scale or equivalent advanced degree experience.

• Deep expertise in one or more of the following areas: whole-body control, model-predictive
  control, sensor fusion, path planning, manipulation, or collision models.

• Proven ability to work with multidisciplinary engineering teams and deliver highly integrated
  robotic systems.

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and executive presentation skills.

• Passion for building impactful technology that improves the lives of real users.

• Demonstrates high energy, availability, intrinsic motivation, and focus to drive intensely.
  domains.

Bonus Points

• Experience delivering robotics systems in medical, manufacturing, or other semi-structured
  domains.

• Familiarity with Medical compliance and/or medical device product development

• Prior leadership in building and maintaining safety-critical or real-time software systems.

• Familiarity with functional safety practices and certification.

Benefits

• Equity: Company stock options.

• Insurance Coverage: medical, dental, and vision insurance available

• Time Off:

  • Flexible, unlimited PTO

  • 10 company holidays, including a winter shutdown

• Relocation Assistance: Relocation assistance is available to move you near our Dublin, Ohio
  office.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Apricity Robotics is committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and
dignity. Each individual has the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes equal
employment opportunities and prohibits unlawful discriminatory practices, including harassment.
Therefore, it is the policy of Apricity Robotics to ensure equal employment opportunity without
discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity
or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, or any other
characteristic protected by law. Apricity Robotics prohibits any such discrimination or harassment.