Robotic Software Engineer

Join SAM XL as a Robotic Software Engineer.

Job description

In the role of robotics software engineer at SAM XL you will be working on cutting edge automated manufacturing technologies for the Aerospace Industry. With your skills and experience in the development of robotic software components you will contribute to the advancement of smart manufacturing and zero-programming technologies in this field.

This role allows for implementing both existing research, as own novel ideas into useable (ROS) software components.

You will join a young and ambitious team that has a strong drive to introduce world-class robotics applications into industry!

Job requirements

• MSc. (or Ph.D.) in Computer Science, Robotics or a related field.
• Outstanding programming skills in both C++ and Python.
• 0-3 years of relevant experience.
• Up to 3 years of hands-on experience building robotics software; familiarity with industrial robot platforms is a plus.
• Experience with ROS / ROS2.
• Experience with Motion Planning.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and become a problem owner.
• Ability to define and realize your own goals.

TU Delft (Delft University of Technology)

SAM XL

SAM XL is an ambitious and energetic collaborative research centre at the Delft University of Technology (DUT) in the Netherlands with a focus on Industry4.0, cognitive robotics, automated manufacturing and AI. As a 100% subsidiary of DUT, SAM XL aims at enabling advanced manufacturing companies (aerospace, maritime, wind energy) to make optimal use of Industry4.0 technology to improve the quality and sustainability of their products, whilst simultaneously reducing cost.

World-class research from both the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering and the Cognitive Robotics department of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering is combined with challenges from industry. In a dedicated factory space of 2000 m2 SAM XL is building a variety of large-scale, automated manufacturing cells to develop and demonstrate smart manufacturing technology in close collaboration with engineers from the partnering companies and researchers and Europe’s leading Research Institutes.

In time, SAM XL is expanding and linking its robotic infrastructure into a prototype “Factory of the Future”, which will function as a Didactic Factory for innovation and education of the next generation engineers and technicians.

Conditions of employment

• Duration of contract is 2 years, temporarily with a posibility for extension.
• An excellent pension scheme via the ABP.
• The possibility to compile an individual employment package every year.
• Discount with health insurers on supplemental packages.
• Flexible working week.
• Every year, 232 leave hours (at 38 hours). You can also sell or buy additional leave hours via the individual choice budget.
• Plenty of opportunities for education, training and courses.
• Partially paid parental leave.
• Attention for working healthy and energetically with the vitality program.

Additional information

hwjmkoelman@tudelft.nl