Robotics Software Engineer

Description

Kela is a secure, open platform enabling rapid and seamless integration of commercial and military systems in service of Western defense.

The Robotics group develops and produces autonomy for off-road platforms. We work across embedded software, controls, perception, communications, hardware, and sensor integration, and we test what we build in the field.

You will write the software that runs on the platform and take it from code to the field.

Responsibilities:

• Write and own on-platform software: real-time control, drivers, and integration with sensors and actuators.
• Work across the stack: controls, localization, perception, and communications.
• Bring up new platforms and new sensors.
• Test, debug, and validate software in the field.
• Work closely with algorithm, system, and hardware engineers to turn integrated robotics capabilities into reliable fielded systems.

Requirements

• Excellence with a record that shows it: top academic background, competitive achievements, elite technological unit service, or high-impact work in industry.
• Strong software engineering background, with networking and hardware integration experience, primarily sensors.
• Hands-on experience with Rust and Python.
• Fast learner, effective outside your own discipline, and comfortable working across hardware-software boundaries.
• Hands-on, practical, and comfortable working in the field.

Nice-to-have

• Experience with robotics or autonomous systems.
• Experience with Linux, embedded systems, real-time software, drivers, or low-level interfaces.
• Experience with ROS/ROS2, CAN, Ethernet, serial interfaces, or similar robotics communication stacks.
• Experience integrating cameras, LiDAR, GNSS/IMU, controllers, or electromechanical actuators.