Sr. Embedded Software Engineer, Robotics Platform

Company and role

Platform engineering

• Develop and maintain robotics middleware and application frameworks in modern C++ on embedded Linux.
• Own platform components through design, implementation, testing, validation, deployment, and fleet operation.
• Work with software, autonomy, systems, and hardware teams to address reliability, performance, safety, and developer experience.

Reliability and technical leadership

• Translate safety and reliability needs into software behavior, interfaces, and verification strategies; investigate complex system-level failures.
• Build performance benchmarks, instrumentation, logging, tracing, and fleet-health metrics.
• Lead design and code reviews, contribute to engineering practices, and mentor other engineers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical discipline or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including significant production development in C++17 or newer.
• Embedded Linux systems development and debugging experience; strong knowledge of concurrency, synchronization, IPC, and systems software.
• Experience designing for latency-sensitive, safety-related, real-time, or high-reliability systems and optimizing embedded software.
• Strong troubleshooting across software and hardware boundaries, communication, and cross-functional collaboration.

Additional experience that stands out

• Robotics or autonomous-vehicle middleware, NVIDIA Jetson, Linux internals, fault-tolerant architecture, failure-mode analysis, or functional safety.
• Distributed systems, networking, RPC, Protocol Buffers, FlatBuffers, Cap’n Proto, fleet observability, or embedded sensor integration.

Work arrangement

• The role may occasionally require access to robotics hardware or onsite participation in integration, testing, troubleshooting, or validation.

Compensation

• Compensation range is $167,800–$204,000 annually.