Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Robotics Platform

Responsibilities

• Software Architecture & Interfaces: Design and implement shared libraries and clear contracts for commands, state, execution and compatibility across robot capabilities, along with reference clients, examples and documentation that let other engineers use them.
• Robot Systems & Runtime: Build reliable computing and runtime foundations, including target builds, configuration, startup, readiness, hardware integration and recovery.
• Fleet & Data Services: Develop services for robot health, telemetry, incident evidence, recording access and software delivery visibility across unreliable networks.
• Developer Workflows: Create tools and infrastructure that make integration, deployment, diagnosis and validation more repeatable and efficient.
• End-to-End Engineering: Take a substantial workstream from design and implementation through integration, deployment, investigation and improvement.
• Verification & Reliability: Use tests, traces and operational evidence to understand behavior and validate changes, including AI-assisted implementation.
• Technical Collaboration: Work across component boundaries, communicate trade-offs and help other engineers build on your work. At Staff level, lead cross-team architecture, migration and adoption.

Requirements

• Education: BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Software Engineering: Strong production programming, design and debugging skills in languages relevant to your area, such as C++, Python, Go or comparable languages.
• Relevant Depth: Substantial experience in at least one of shared software interfaces, Linux/embedded systems, backend/distributed services, connected-device platforms or developer infrastructure.
• Delivered Systems: Experience shipping and maintaining software used by other engineers or users, with clear ownership of implementation and results.
• Systems Reasoning: Ability to reason about state, asynchronous execution, failures, interfaces and meaningful verification.
• Collaboration & Adaptability: Ability to work across disciplines, clarify unfamiliar assumptions and learn new systems through practical engineering.
• Level of Ownership: Senior candidates should demonstrate independent ownership of substantial workstreams. Staff candidates should also demonstrate architectural impact across components and owners, hands-on delivery and successful adoption.
• Requires 5 days/week in-office collaboration with the teams.

Bonus Qualifications

• Robotics, autonomy or other hardware-integrated products, including ROS 2 or comparable middleware.
• Embedded computing, target toolchains, runtime lifecycle or on-device deployment and recovery.
• Stateful APIs, reusable client libraries, software compatibility or interface migration.
• Device telemetry, reliable data delivery, observability, recording pipelines or fleet operations.
• CI, hardware automation, developer tools or reproducible release workflows.