Software Engineer

Software Engineer **"We are on a mission to transform the future of grocery retail through sustained technology innovation."** **We are a fast- growing company: today we have colleagues in 7 development centre across the UK and Europe, with offices open in London, Hatfield, Welwyn Garden City (UK), Krakow, Wroclaw (Poland), Sofia (Bulgaria) and Barcelona (Spain), with a satellite office in Stockholm (Sweden).** **We champion a value-led culture to get our teams working at their very best and to help create a collaborative working environment that our people love.** **Core values of Trust, Autonomy, Craftsmanship, Collaboration and Learn Fast help drive our innovative culture. But don't just take our word for it, have a look at what our people are saying about us on Glassdoor.** ***Roles & Responsibilities** **The External Collaborations Team of Ocado Technology is looking to hire a software engineer that has experience in backend development and software integration to support and enhance the team's capabilities and to contribute to the innovation that fuels the growth of Ocado. You'll be part of a research team to support cutting-edge activities in robotics and automation, artificial intelligence and machine learning, smart services and innovative projects for grocery logistics.** **The team collaborates with external partners for Horizon Europe robotics research projects, and you will be contributing to three large scale research and innovation programmes**: **The Intelliman project: the main objective of this project is to study how a robot can efficiently learn how to manipulate in a purposeful and highly effective way.** **The Sestosenso project: this project is developing new proximity and tactile sensing capabilities to enable the next generation of collaborative robots to self-adapt to time varying operational conditions.** **The SoftEnable project: this project proposes a new framework for manipulation actions involving deformable delicate objects based on the notion of soft fixture-enabled manipulation primitives.** **Your main responsibilities will include**: - **Lead the development of the back end software components and their integration in a robotic system.** - **Take an active role in the choice of techniques adopted for the software development for robotics integration.** - **Conduct functional and non-functional testing like load, security and performance.** - **Provide documentation and project reporting of the system architecture and operation.**- **Attend regular meetings, internal and external, to facilitate system hand-over.** - **Work closely with other team members and other stakeholders on issues relating to performance and integration requirements.** ***Knowledge, Skills and Experience** ***We would like to hear from you if you have**: - **A post-graduate qualification in a relevant area, or a demonstrable track record as a software engineer.** - **Proficient in at least one of the following: Real Time Systems, ROS/ROS2, Cloud Computing (Google Cloud Services);.** - **Familiarity with Docker;** - **Ability to write secure, clean, maintainable and reusable code (Python, C++);** - **Ability to work with and configure continuous integration tools to automate test and deployment, e.g. Travis, Jenkis;** - **Strong object oriented programming skills and awareness of design patterns;** - **Experience working with Agile methodologies** - **Excellent communication and presentation skills;** - **A keen eye for detail, with the inquisitiveness and drive for in-depth understanding of the problem;** - **Speed of learning, ability to quickly pick up and develop new ideas, and use a wide range of tools to solve challenging problems;** - **Ability to communicate clearly and precisely with technical and non-technical teams, both verbally and in writing** - **Drive to continually improve and find better ways of working as a team** ***Having these will make you stand out from the crowd**: - **Experience in complex system integration** - **Familiarity with robotics and/or keen interest in robotics** - **Other software development skills of interest are those applicable to real-time systems and multi-tasking/multi-threading** - **Familiarity with machine learning techniques and/or keen interest in machine learning