Senior Robotics Software Engineer

About the Role

What You'll Do

What We're Looking For

Compensation & Benefits

Location

• On-site in San Francisco, California, five days per week, with field test days included.

Qualifications

• At least 4 years of hands-on robotics software engineering experience.
• Experience writing production C++ that ran on a physical robotic system and was used repeatedly in the field or in operation.
• Experience owning hardware-facing features and working with sensor data, tracking, control, or autonomy.
• Fluency with real-time systems, including threading, latency, and timing analysis.
• Experience building or maintaining CI/CD or hardware-in-the-loop testing for robotics software.
• Familiarity with sensor synchronization, coordinate-frame transforms, sensor fusion, Kalman filtering, or target tracking is helpful.
• ROS or ROS2, cameras, IMUs, encoders, gimbal or turret systems, and defense, aerospace, or safety-critical software experience are useful.
• Must meet US Person requirements for export control purposes.
• Compensation & Benefits
• Base salary is $185,000 to $235,000 annually, plus equity. Visa sponsorship is not available.
• Location
• On-site in San Francisco, California, five days per week, with field test days included.

Responsibilities

• Own production C++ features end to end across sensor data, tracking, control, or autonomy.
• Profile and improve software you own, including threading, process structure, latency, and timing.
• Write tests alongside features and maintain CI/CD and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
• Debug issues that arise on physical hardware, including during field testing.
• At least 4 years of hands-on robotics software engineering experience.
• Experience writing production C++ that ran on a physical robotic system and was used repeatedly in the field or in operation.
• Experience owning hardware-facing features and working with sensor data, tracking, control, or autonomy.
• Fluency with real-time systems, including threading, latency, and timing analysis.
• Experience building or maintaining CI/CD or hardware-in-the-loop testing for robotics software.
• Familiarity with sensor synchronization, coordinate-frame transforms, sensor fusion, Kalman filtering, or target tracking is helpful.
• ROS or ROS2, cameras, IMUs, encoders, gimbal or turret systems, and defense, aerospace, or safety-critical software experience are useful.
• Must meet US Person requirements for export control purposes.
• Base salary is $185,000 to $235,000 annually, plus equity. Visa sponsorship is not available.
• On-site in San Francisco, California, five days per week, with field test days included.