Robotics Software Engineer (m/f/d) AI Tools & Integration

Description

The AI Teams at Agile Robots are looking for a Robotics Software Engineer (m/f/d) AI Tools & Integration , who will integrate AI models with robot hardware and build the applications and tooling around them. Customers and partners reuse this stack through open-source releases, so it has to keep working with messy data, limited compute, and real hardware.

Agile Robots is a leading provider of AI-powered robotics solutions. By combining artificial intelligence and robotics, the company makes industries smarter, more flexible, and more efficient.

Founded in Munich in 2018 by renowned robotics researchers from the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Agile Robots has experienced rapid global growth. Today, more than 3,500 highly skilled robotics and AI enthusiasts are employed worldwide. The company has one of the largest research and development teams in the AI and robotics industry.

Agile Robots has built a unique portfolio; together with the subsidiaries BÄR Automation, Franka Robotics, idealworks, and Krause Automation, the company covers all areas of AI-driven robotics.

Find out more at: https://www.agile-robots.com/en/

Responsibilities

• Robot Integration: Integrate trained AI models with single-arm and dual-arm robots through ROS 2, and maintain the runtime that runs them on hardware.
• Application Development: Build robot applications on top of the AI stack, including agentic workflows that chain AI models and robot skills into multi-step tasks.
• Tool Interfaces: Build UI, API, and CLI tools such as dataset viewers, training dashboards, and benchmark viewers.
• End-to-End Testing: Build test suites that run real user workflows from data through training to inference, including stress tests with messy data and limited compute.
• Release Readiness: Maintain nightly regression runs on the reference workflows and run reliability checks before demos and open-source releases.
• Documentation: Write and maintain the documentation customers and partners use to adopt the tooling.
• Essential Skills
• Engineering Background: Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field, or equivalent qualification plus professional experience building comparable software systems.
• Python Engineering: Professional experience building and maintaining Python software that other engineers depend on.
• ROS 2 Integration: Hands-on experience integrating and debugging software on physical robots through ROS 2.
• Containers & CI: Hands-on experience with Docker and CI pipelines such as GitHub Actions for reproducible builds and releases.
• Testing: Hands-on experience designing integration and end-to-end test suites and debugging failures across the full stack.
• Backend Services: Experience building backend services and APIs, for example with FastAPI or gRPC.
• Beneficial Skills
• C++ Development: Experience writing C++ for robot-side or performance-critical code.
• Agentic Systems: Experience building applications that combine language or vision-language models with robot skill execution.
• Frontend Development: Working experience with React or Next.js for building data-heavy interfaces.
• ML Workflows: Working understanding of how training and inference pipelines for robot learning models fit together.

Benefits

• A dynamic high-tech company, combined with financial soundness and world-class investors.
• Join an interdisciplinary, international team with 60+ different nationalities in a collaborative work environment.
• Lots of development opportunities as we continue to grow.
• Challenging tasks and impactful projects alongside experts that enable professional and personal growth.
• Corporate Benefits Program covering health, mobility, and learning for 100€ net per month.
• Modern office facilities with a rooftop terrace overlooking Munich, free drinks & fruits, and regular company events contribute to a good working environment