Pickle Robot Company

Hardware Engineer

• Design and implement safety-critical firmware for emergency stop systems, collision avoidance mechanisms, and safety interlocks using safety-rated PLCs and controllers.
• Characterize various safety peripherals and sensors to maximize the performance and reliability of safety interfaces in vendor-specific programming languages, whether that is C, C++, Python, structured text, or ladder logic.
• Collaborate with hardware, software, and safety teams to define safety-critical interfaces and ensure seamless integration of safety components.
• Design and implement robust safety peripheral APIs into Pickle's platform in Python, ensuring fail-safe operation and adherence to safety standards.
• Develop and maintain safety-rated communication protocols between safety systems and the main robotic platform via PROFIsafe, CIP Safety, Modbus TCP Safety, and other safety communication standards.
• Create comprehensive test harnesses and debugging tools specifically focused on verifying the reliability and safety performance of safety-critical firmware.
• Ensure firmware compliance with relevant safety standards such as ISO 13849, IEC 62046, ANSI B11, and ANSI RIA R15.

Senior Firmware Engineer - Safety Systems

Robotics

• Invent novel technologies to solve real-world problems related to robotic warehouse operations, including loading and unloading trucks.
• Maintain awareness of developments in the rapidly changing AI field, and will leverage new and exciting technologies to address our robotics challenges.
• Develop innovative technologies that improve key performance metrics for speed and reliability by reacting intelligently to environmental disturbances and system faults.
• Combine traditional motion planning and control algorithms with newer deep learning models, including reinforcement learning and diffusion models, to maximally leverage the benefits of both.
• Identify risks in new approaches, and mitigate risk by developing and executing appropriate experiments.
• Collaborate with colleagues to grow the Pickle AI team and overall corporate expertise in robotics and AI; collaboration is key to productivity that is more than the sum of the parts.

Senior Firmware Engineer - Safety Systems

Applied Researcher in Robotics-Motion Planning & Controls