# Senior Robotics Software Engineer

About the Role Join a defense technology team building autonomous robotic systems for countering unmanned aircraft. You will develop and ship production C++ software that connects sensor data, tracking, control, and autonomy on physical hardware. What You'll Do Own production C++ features across sensor data processing, tracking, control, and autonomy. Profile and resolve threading, process structure, latency, and timing issues in the software you own. Build and maintain tests, CI/CD, and hardware-in-the-loop testing alongside feature development. Debug failures that occur on real hardware, including in field conditions. Take part in regular field tests. What We're Looking For At least 4 years of hands-on robotics software engineering experience. Demonstrated production C++ experience on a physical robotic system, with software that reached repeated use in the field or operational environments. Experience owning software features across sensor data, tracking, control, or autonomy. Fluency with real-time systems, including threading, latency, and timing analysis. Experience with CI/CD or hardware-in-the-loop testing for hardware-facing software. Experience with sensor synch

- **Id**: 4320162
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-senior-robotics-software-engineer-4>
- **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**: 2026-11-14T17:15:10Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-14
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T19:35:39Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1722
- **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**: 40
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 6
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## 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: 2026-11-14T19:35:39Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 41; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 41 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**: 2026-11-14T23:37:38Z

## Pay

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

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