Robotics Software Engineer, Motion Planning - Logistics Division

Team: Product Development - Software

Location: Tokyo

Commitment: Full-Time employee

Workplace Type: hybrid

Responsibilities

Develop real-time motion control software to control robot manipulators using Inverse Kinematics, collision avoidance, trajectory generation, time parameterization, and active compliance control algorithms

Develop TX's custom-made robot control software, such as actuator driver integration and ROS framework integration

Integrate the entire software components to make the robotic solution ready for enterprise-level production

Requirements

Master's degree or above in a relevant field

Expert in C++ software development on Linux/Ubuntu platform with 3 years of work experience.

Expert in ROS2 framework and MoveIt Motion Planning. If we gave you URDF, you should be able to create a ROS environment with MoveIt to control the robot in the Gazebo environment from scratch

Experience in developing software to control robot manipulator (e.g., UR series of Universal Robots)

Hands-on experience with motor control and PID algorithms

Knowledge of robotics control theory (Kinematics, Dynamics, Motion Planning, and Control)

Passion to develop a product used in real operations (product mindset)

Good communication skills and proactive collaboration

Business level of English

Desired Skills

Japanese language skill to communicate with internal/external stakeholders

Experience in developing force/torque control software, such as compliance control

Experience with Docker, CI/CD, and automated robotics software deployment

Experience with CAN/CANopen, CiA 402, EtherCAT, or other industrial servo-control protocols

Creative in solving issues; data-driven debugging and iteration

Autonomous problem-solver: proactively identifies and breaks down issues, investigates logs/metrics, designs experiments, proposes options, and delivers fixes/features end-to-end with minimal oversight—while communicating progress and escalating when truly blocked

Experience simulating robotic systems and their interactions with physics-based environments