Software Development Engineer - Robotics

Overview We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more. As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow. Responsibilities Designing, developing, and maintaining high‑performance software in C++ and Python.

Building scalable cloud‑based systems leveraging AWS, Azure, and modern CDK tooling. Developing and optimizing data‑management pipelines to support robotics and autonomy workloads. Implementing and integrating computer vision algorithms, including CUDA‑accelerated processing, sensor drivers, and hand‑eye calibration workflows.

Integrating ML models into production systems, including optimization, JIT execution, and infrastructure support. Developing autonomy behaviors using state machines, behavior trees, and task‑planning frameworks. Building and supporting VR and haptic‑device interfaces, communication stacks, and motion‑capture (mocap) integrations.

Developing middleware and system‑level frameworks for robotics and autonomous‑vehicle platforms. Supporting internal developer tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and automation using Jenkins, Python, Bash, and Linux. Qualifications B.S./B.A. degree in Engineering or another technical field. 1–5 years of relevant experience in data engineering, cloud engineering, or analytics infrastructure.

Experience with VR, Haptic Devices or sensors Experience with robotics or autonomous vehicles Familiarity with AWS account administration and cloud resource management. Salary Range: $80,000 - $130,000 The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience Compliance and Notice ALTEN Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our Policy is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual’s age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.

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