Robotics Software Engineer - Bristol
Robotics Software Engineer - Bristol

The duration of the contract is 12 months.

The location of the role is Bristol (hybrid working).

The pay rate on offer is 65 - 70 per hour.

Key activities

• Delivery of key milestone automation projects.
• Control software development for industrial robotics systems
• Software development in Python/C++/Javascript.
• Creation of technical documentation, presentations, and reporting to management.

Essential responsibilities

• Design, develop, implement, and support software development primarily in Python and C++.
• Develop software to interface with and control industrial robots (eg Fanuc, Yaskawa)
• Designing / architecting software APIs from the ground up.
• Be meticulous in maintaining the quality of all software and code by actively testing, fixing, improving and optimising.
• Developing and deploying software tests (eg gtest, gmock, cxxtest, jest, junit, pytest etc)
• Continually and effectively communicate to all members of the software team to help maintain team cohesion in an Agile environment.
• Clearly communicate software functionality and requirements with those in non-software disciplines.
• And other duties as may reasonably be required, consistent with the post and company needs.

Key skills and experience

• Excellent knowledge, coding and development skills in Python, C++ and Javascript
• Experience working with industrial robots and offline programming environments (Fanuc, Roboguide, Motosim)
• Design of software APIs and Architectures from scratch.
• Demonstratable experience of delivering significant software development projects.
• Experience in software validation and optimisation.
• Agile team experience.
• Experience working with ROS