Software Engineer, Robotics Platform

ABOUT THE ROLE

We're hiring a Software Engineer, Robotics Platform to help us scale our fleet

of robots. This role is on-site five days a week in San Francisco — it's how our

small, high-ownership team moves.

The robot platform is the foundation layer our entire robotics stack — and the

ML models we run on the robot (our "forward-deployed" models) — runs on: robot

compute, OS, middleware, and networking. You'll own it, making it a stable,

performant base for our perception and robotics algorithms. The work spans

everything from low-level system software to high-bandwidth sensor logging,

debugging, and performance analysis, in close partnership with senior robotics

and perception engineers.

Our next-generation platform is greenfield: we're taking everything we've

learned from the platform running in production today and designing the next one

from a clean sheet — run as an applied hypothesis → experiment → learn loop.

You'll be central to that.

We want architects who work full-stack — from system design down to the metal —

not armchair architects. Engineers who design a system and live with its

low-level consequences, who feel the pain a design inflicts downstream and

account for it from the start.

And while we hire you for a specific set of strengths, we won't pigeonhole you

into a narrow lane. You're free — encouraged — to contribute anywhere in the

company you can make it better.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

* Architect and build our next-generation robotics platform — the foundation

layer our robotics stack and forward-deployed models run on, spanning

compute, OS, middleware, and networking — taking the lessons from the

platform in production today into a clean-sheet design.

* Build the infrastructure and frameworks that carry a robot across its whole

software lifecycle — provisioning a new instance so it joins the fleet, then

keeping its software updated from there on — working with manufacturing to do

this at scale.

* Lead an upgrade of our autonomy software OS and middleware.

* Help integrate new robot hardware, sensors, and cameras, and monitor

performance.

* Investigate, debug and fix difficult low-level systems software problems and

performance, e.g. with drivers, networking, Linux configuration.

QUALIFICATIONS

* Strong experience and expertise in Linux systems — building complex software

in a Linux environment.

* Strong systems programming in C, C++, or Rust (Python a plus).

* Excellent software engineering fundamentals.

* Experience leading and shipping complex software projects.

* Experience deploying and managing software across networked edge devices

(robot fleets, embedded systems) and/or with ROS 2 middleware — the DDS-based

publish/subscribe (topics) layer that connects a robot's software components.

NICE-TO-HAVE

* Robotics experience.

* Experience with the broader robotics tech stack, e.g. OpenCV, CUDA.

* Understanding of network and time protocols, e.g. TCP, UDP, PTP.

* Experience in systems engineering.

* Experience with basic mechatronics and electronics.

* Experience leading projects or people in a tech-lead or similar capacity.

* A Master's or PhD — not required, but we value the depth of reasoning that

sustained research develops.