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The Home Depot

Principal Embedded Software Engineer

The Home Depot

Principal

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What this role is

Lead the embedded software architecture for Home Depot's fleet of autonomous warehouse robots, from real-time motion control through safety systems and hardware integration. This role suits experienced embedded engineers ready to mentor teams and make platform-level technical decisions in a robotics organization.

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What they ask for

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or related field
  • 8+ years of embedded software development
  • 3+ years of technical leadership or lead engineering experience
  • Mobile robotic systems software development experience
  • C and C++ proficiency
  • Embedded Linux experience
  • Hardware/software debugging experience
  • Real-time systems and concurrency understanding
  • Software architecture and system design experience
  • RTOS experience

Nice to have

  • Autonomous mobile robot (AMR) experience
  • Warehouse automation, logistics, or industrial automation background
  • Navigation, localization, and sensor fusion knowledge
  • Safety-critical or mission-critical systems experience
  • Deployed robotic fleet support experience
  • Agile development environment experience
  • Zephyr RTOS and OpenWRT experience

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