Robotics Software Engineer (Controls & Perception)
About the role
At Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives. You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. This role is part of the R&D Software team located in San Jose, California and Indianapolis, Indiana.
Responsibilities
- Develop advanced control algorithms that enable precise robotic motion, liquid handling, and sample transport across our automation platform.
- Create real-time perception capabilities using sensor fusion, computer vision, and calibration techniques to help instruments accurately understand and respond to their environment.
- Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of automation software through embedded optimization, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and modern CI/CD validation practices.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams spanning mechanical, electrical, firmware, and AI engineering to design intelligent instrument behaviors from concept through verification.
- Advance autonomous laboratory operations by identifying failure modes, defining safe operating boundaries, and ensuring robust, dependable system performance in real world environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Robotics, Controls Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
- 7+ years of experience developing control, perception, or automation software for robotics, laboratory automation, or other physical systems
- Strong foundation in control systems engineering, including state estimation, Kalman filtering, optimal control, model predictive control (MPC), and their application to real world hardware
- Proficiency developing real time and embedded software in C++, with experience using Python for tooling, testing, performance profiling, and latency optimization
- Hands-on experience with perception technologies such as sensor fusion, SLAM, or real-time computer vision, along with hardware-in-the-loop testing and modern CI/CD practices for embedded or robotics systems
Essential Requirements
- Ability to travel up to 15% domestically and internationally
- Previous experience in laboratory automation, medical devices, or other regulated instrumentation environments is a plus
Benefits
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.
Pay
The annual salary range for this role is $150,000 - $200,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.
Schedule
This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay. We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.