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Robotic Software Engineer

Lely

Lely

Software Engineering
Maassluis, Netherlands
Posted on Nov 17, 2025

In the Robotic Application Software Development department, we develop software that helps automate dairy farms. We are working on a range of products, like mobile robots and our milking robot. We are looking for an engineer to strengthen our manure robot team.

As a Robotics Software Engineer, you are responsible for the development and maintenance of our automated farming solutions including control technologies for our feeding robots. You work in a multidisciplinary team, composed of software engineers and testers but also data engineers, and system/mechanical/electronics engineers, depending on the project.

You help translate requirements to a solid software design. You play a proactive role in designing, improving, and guarding the software architecture. Are you the experienced engineer we are looking for?

Your main responsibilities are:

  • Designing, implementing, and testing of the robotic software.
  • Design, plan and conduct real-world experiments i.e our workshops and Lely test farms.
  • Optimizing data structures and algorithms used in production plus improving and maintenance of the current codebase.
  • Ensuring quality control based on design, code reviews, unit and integration testing, test automation.
  • Contributing to the Agile work process by setting targets, reporting on progress, and managing risks and threats.
  • Develop novel robotics algorithms with collaboration and input from our multi-disciplinary engineering teams.