# Principal Robotics Software Engineer

About the Role Join the robotics team at a defense technology company developing autonomous systems to detect and counter drone threats. This is a senior, hands-on individual contributor role focused on production C++ running on physical robotic hardware. What You'll Do Write and own critical production C++ across the robotics software stack. Manage timing, threading, latency, and safety contracts across perception, tracking, control, and autonomy. Move software from prototype to reliable field use through release processes, packaging, deployment, CI/CD, quality assurance, and hardware-in-the-loop testing. Mentor and support the growth of the robotics team while continuing to code hands-on. Investigate and resolve issues that emerge on real hardware, including during field testing. What We're Looking For 10 or more years of hands-on robotics software engineering experience and a record of shipping robotic systems. Recent experience writing production C++ for physical systems, including personally implementing tracking, calibration, and sensor fusion. Experience taking robotics software from prototype to repeatable release for field, operator, fleet, or customer use. Broad e

- **Id**: 4209026
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-principal-robotics-software-engineer-4>
- **Role**: Robotics
- **Role family**: Robotics
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T17:26:56Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T00:27:14Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1966
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 2706
- **Name**: Clera
- **Domain**: getclera.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/clera>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 40
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 6
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 235000
- **Max**: 305000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 305000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **ROS** — Optional: no
- **Sensor Fusion** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T00:27:14Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 48; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 48 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.516
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 6
- **Reasons**: conf:4, agency, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T04:45:52Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 305000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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