# Senior Robotics Software Engineer

About the Role Join a defense technology team building autonomous systems that combine robotics, perception, and directed energy. You will develop and validate software on physical hardware, supporting reliable sensing, tracking, control, and autonomy in field environments. What You'll Do Own production C++ features across sensor data processing, tracking, control, or autonomy. Profile and resolve threading, process structure, latency, and timing issues in the software you own. Develop tests alongside features and build or maintain CI/CD and hardware-in-the-loop testing. Debug issues that occur on physical systems, including failures identified through recorded or replayed sensor data. Take part in regular field testing. What We're Looking For At least 4 years of hands-on robotics software engineering experience. Production C++ experience on a physical robotic system, with software that reached repeated use in the field or by operators, customers, or fleets. End-to-end ownership of features involving sensor data, tracking, control, or autonomy. Fluency with real-time systems, including threading, latency, and timing analysis. Experience with sensor timestamps, time synchro

- **Id**: 3927125
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-senior-robotics-software-engineer-3>
- **Role**: Robotics
- **Role family**: Robotics
- **Seniority**: senior
- **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**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-07T17:15:57Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-07
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T12:43:38Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1814
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **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**: 39
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 6
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 185000
- **Max**: 235000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 235000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **ROS** — Optional: no
- **ROS2** — Optional: no
- **Sensor Fusion** — Optional: no

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-07T20:25:37Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 47; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 47 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 38
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.379
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 6
- **Reasons**: conf:1, agency, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 235000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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