Location
North Reading, Massachusetts, United States
Posted
May 16, 2026
Job Description
Platform Architecture & Software Quality Engineer
Robotics · Systems Refactoring · Engineering Standards
The Role
The robotics software platform works—it was built by talented scientists moving at startup speed—but it wasn't built to scale. You're the engineer who looks at a functional but fragile codebase and sees the path to something maintainable, modular, and fast. This role is equal parts software architecture and engineering culture: tightening abstractions, migrating hot paths from Python to C++ where the numbers justify it, and raising the bar on how the team writes and reviews code—all without breaking what already ships.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
Robotics · Systems Refactoring · Engineering Standards
The Role
The robotics software platform works—it was built by talented scientists moving at startup speed—but it wasn't built to scale. You're the engineer who looks at a functional but fragile codebase and sees the path to something maintainable, modular, and fast. This role is equal parts software architecture and engineering culture: tightening abstractions, migrating hot paths from Python to C++ where the numbers justify it, and raising the bar on how the team writes and reviews code—all without breaking what already ships.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
- Conduct deep-dive audits of the existing ROS 2 codebase and drive targeted refactors that improve maintainability, modularity, and runtime performance
- Profile the system to find real bottlenecks, then le...