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Our team includes veterans who helped launch Waymo, scaled Segment to a $3.2B acquisition, and grew Uber Freight to $5B in revenue. Today, we're deploying autonomous systems on heavy construction equipment across the country, improving safety on job sites and accelerating schedules on critical infrastructure projects.\nWe're not here debating the future of AI. We're deploying it in the real world. In just two years, we've raised $350M and achieved the first fully autonomous excavator deployments in construction.\nThis is where algorithms meet steel-toed boots. You'll work alongside construction veterans and world-class engineers to solve physical-world problems that simulations can't touch. If you're ready to do meaningful work on hard problems, we'd love to have you join us.\nThe Role\nThe Onboard Infrastructure team builds the software foundation Bedrock's autonomous machines run on, the layer giving Bedrock the ability to scale across multiple machines, variations, models and environments. Our software keeps every machine working reliably hours from the nearest engineer, in harsh environments and on lossy connectivity, doing real work on billion-dollar projects.\nWe're looking for Senior and Staff Software Engineers to architect, build, and own major areas of our embedded safety controller, from drivers and RTOS bring-up through applications and system integration. This mixed-criticality controller serves as the main interface between the Bedrock autonomy system and the heavy machinery it controls.\nIn this role, you will:\nBuild safety-critical software that controls the base machine and monitors the health of the Bedrock system, with strict isolation and deterministic real-time execution.\n\nDevelop across the full embedded software stack, spanning drivers, RTOS, communication, middleware, and applications.\n\nInterface with and control a broad range of heavy machinery across machine types and manufacturers, and design the abstractions that keep our system flexible and portable.\n\nExtend the platform to the embedded devices that keep machines running in the field, like power management, sensor cleaning, and lighting, so the system can keep working through long stretches in harsh conditions.\n\nRequired Qualifications\nExperience building and shipping embedded systems in robotics, automotive, drones, or other safety-critical embedded contexts.\n\nStrong embedded programming skills in a systems language such as C++ or Rust, plus fluency in Python for scripting and analysis.\n\nSolid foundation building software for resource constrained systems with real-time requirements.\n\nComfortable developing, automating, and debugging across the hardware/software boundary.\n\nTrack record of leading projects, driving design decisions, and working effectively across hardware, autonomy, and platform teams.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with Rust in production or embedded systems\n\nFamiliarity with automotive and industrial networking and protocols including CAN, Ethernet, and J1939.\n\nExperience developing software to meet functional safety standards such as ISO 26262, IEC 61508, or DO-178C.\n\nBedrock Robotics is an Equal Opportunity Employer\nWe’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. 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