Robotics Software Engineer Lead

Level: Senior

Reports To: Deployment & Scale-up Director

Role Summary

The Lead Robotics Software Engineer will provide technical leadership for the architecture, development, integration, and deployment of production-grade robotics software at VinRobotics.

This role will lead software development across Autonomous Mobile Robots, robotic manipulators, humanoid robots, and smart logistics systems. The position requires strong hands-on engineering capability, system-level architecture experience, and the ability to guide engineers across multidisciplinary robotics projects.

Core Responsibilities

1. Robotics Software Architecture

• Define scalable and reusable software architectures for robot systems, AMRs, manipulators, mobile manipulators, and humanoid robots.

• Own major technical decisions across robot-level, fleet-level, and enterprise-level software systems.

• Translate product and operational requirements into software architecture, interfaces, technical roadmaps, and implementation plans.

2. System Integration

• Lead hardware-software integration with sensors, actuators, motor controllers, embedded systems, commercialized robots, and industrial equipment.

• Define interfaces between robots, Fleet Management Systems, WES, WMS, ERP, MES, and other factory systems.

• Support integration with warehouse, production, inventory, and material-handling workflows.

3. Performance and Optimization

• Analyze and optimize robot behaviors, software performance, fleet throughput, cycle time, task allocation, and energy usage.

• Apply control theory, mathematical optimization, operations research, and data-driven approaches to improve robotic performance.

• Lead root-cause analysis for complex system, integration, and production issues.

4. Software Quality and Deployment

• Establish engineering standards for software design, coding, testing, documentation, CI/CD, configuration management, and release processes.

• Define simulation, SIL, HIL, regression, endurance, and field-validation strategies.

• Lead robot commissioning, site testing, acceptance testing, and production deployment.

5. Technical Leadership

• Lead architecture reviews, design reviews, and code reviews.

• Mentor robotics software engineers and support technical competency development.

• Contribute to engineering planning, task estimation, technical risk management, recruitment, and onboarding.

• Collaborate with DevOps, Solution Architecture, QA, and Deployment teams.

Required Skill Set

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Automation, Control Engineering, or a related field.

• At least 7 years of software engineering experience, including 5 years working with real robotic or autonomous systems.

• Proven experience leading the technical development of a robotic platform, product, or major software subsystem.

• Advanced proficiency in modern C++ and Python.

• Extensive experience with ROS2 and Linux-based development environments.

• Strong understanding of distributed robotic architectures and multi-layered software stacks.

• Strong expertise in at least two of the following:

  1. SLAM and localization.

  2. Autonomous navigation and motion planning.

  3. Robot manipulation.

  4. Humanoid locomotion or whole-body control.

  5. Perception and sensor fusion.

  6. Multi-robot systems and fleet management.

  7. Task planning and behavior planning.

• Strong knowledge of control theory, linear algebra, numerical methods, and optimization.

• Hands-on experience deploying, testing, and debugging software on physical robots.

• Strong knowledge of multithreading, concurrency, distributed systems, software design patterns, automated testing, and CI/CD.

• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and lead cross-functional technical decisions.

Nice to Have

• Experience with AMRs, AGVs, autonomous forklifts, or industrial mobile robots.

• Experience with industrial manipulators, collaborative robots, mobile manipulators, or humanoid platforms.

• Experience with ROS2 Navigation, MoveIt, ros2_control, BehaviorTree.CPP, Open-RMF, or equivalent frameworks.

• Experience with fleet management, traffic management, mission orchestration, and task scheduling.

• Experience integrating robotics systems with ERP, WMS, WES, MES, or warehouse control systems.

• Knowledge of warehouse operations, production logistics, inventory management, and material flow.

• Experience with Mixed-Integer Programming, vehicle routing, graph optimization, trajectory optimization, or Model Predictive Control.

• Experience with REST, gRPC, MQTT, OPC UA, DDS, CAN, EtherCAT, or Modbus.

• Familiarity with NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, Gazebo, Webots, MATLAB, or Simulink.

• Experience with machine learning or reinforcement learning for robotics.

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CUDA, embedded Linux, real-time systems, cybersecurity, or high-availability architectures.

• Experience deploying robotic systems in factories, warehouses, or other production environments.

Reporting Structure

Reports directly to the Deployment & Scale-up Director. Works closely with Solution Architecture, Deployment, and QA teams to ensure continuous improvement of deployed systems.