
PickNik is a robotics solutions company specializing in advanced robotics software, notably the commercial-grade MoveIt Pro platform. Founded in 2015, PickNik develops professional tools and real-time C++ control modules to enable rapid development and deployment of complex robotic manipulation applications across diverse environments, including space and industrial automation. Their platform features over 200 pre-built AI-enabled skills for vision, machine learning, grasping, and motion control, supporting all hardware brands via ROS and extensible APIs. PickNik accelerates customers' time to market by 12-24 months, reducing R&D costs and enabling rapid prototyping with digital twins and simulation tools. The company serves robotics developers and enterprises seeking to scale robotics applications with commercial-grade software and expert services, including solution studies, prototyping, application development, and training. PickNik is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, USA, and is recognized for its contributions to open source robotics projects and its leadership in robotic manipulation software.

PickNik is a robotics solutions company specializing in advanced robotics software, notably the commercial-grade MoveIt Pro platform. Founded in 2015, PickNik develops professional tools and real-time C++ control modules to enable rapid development and deployment of complex robotic manipulation applications across diverse environments, including space and industrial automation. Their platform features over 200 pre-built AI-enabled skills for vision, machine learning, grasping, and motion control, supporting all hardware brands via ROS and extensible APIs. PickNik accelerates customers' time to market by 12-24 months, reducing R&D costs and enabling rapid prototyping with digital twins and simulation tools. The company serves robotics developers and enterprises seeking to scale robotics applications with commercial-grade software and expert services, including solution studies, prototyping, application development, and training. PickNik is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, USA, and is recognized for its contributions to open source robotics projects and its leadership in robotic manipulation software.
Do you want to be part of building the next generation of robots and see those robots out in the real world automating dangerous, monotonous tasks? If so, consider joining us at PickNik as a Robotics Lead. The Robotics Lead role is at the forefront of solving the hard problems to put robots into production.
PickNik Robotics is the company behind MoveIt Pro, a software platform that combines AI and advanced motion planning to make robots work in the real world. We’re focused on pushing the boundaries of robotics — and showing what’s possible when robots are powered by great software. PickNik has taken our learnings from the past 10 years - working with Google, Amazon, Samsung, BMW, Lockheed Martin, NASA, and many startups - and distilled that knowledge into MoveIt Pro. Join us in helping companies deploy AI to robots fast and effectively, opening up new possibilities only limited by our customer’s imagination.
As a Robotics Lead at PickNik Robotics, you will help lead development of customer implementations of MoveIt Pro. You will develop MoveIt Pro-based software applications and create integration solutions for our customers. This role is focused on customer delivery - creating software that will be used on robots around the world (and in outer space!).
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