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Korea is the center of gravity for our early commercial strategy, anchored by relationships with the world’s leading shipbuilders and steelmakers. Our work spans both the robot platform itself and the systems, partners, and playbooks required to deploy it at scale.\nWhy Join Persona AI?\nWe offer competitive compensation, a performance-based bonus, 99% employer covered medical benefits, early-stage equity, competitive PTO, and a company-wide paid winter break between December 24th and January 2nd.\n\nYou’ll shape technology that’s redefining the possibilities of robotics and human interaction.\n\nWork alongside passionate teammates who value creativity, and continuous learning.\n\nAbout the Role\nOur robots are built by a small team that ships fast and deploys onto hardware in customer facilities. Between a laptop and a running humanoid there are: a C++/Python/Rust monorepo, an ARM64 cross-compile matrix, kernel modules and a real-time patch set, container images that have to land on Jetson devices, and a rollout process that cannot brick a robot several timezones away.\nToday that path is held together by the engineers who also write control code. Your job is to own it so they don't have to. Success is measured in build times, time-to-first-commit for a new engineer, deployment frequency, and the number of infrastructure problems the rest of the team stops thinking about.\nThis is not a cloud-only role. Roughly half the surface area is physical: lab networks, robot dev boxes, bench and HIL fixtures, on-site LAN infrastructure, and the mirrors that let a deployment site work with no internet at all.\nWhat You Will Be Doing\nBuild and CI\nThe build graph for a mixed C++/Python/Rust/CUDA monorepo: involving incremental correctness, remote caching, and cross-compilation for AMD64 dev boxes and ARM64 targets.\n\nOur CI capacity: self-hosted runners, GPU and hardware-attached runners, and the queue discipline that keeps PR feedback under ten minutes.\n\nReproducibility: A build from a tagged commit six months from now should produce a bit-identical artifact.\n\nRelease and fleet delivery\nVersioning, artifact promotion, and the container registry / package mirrors that back it.\n\nSafe, resumable, bandwidth-aware rollout to robots - staged channels, canary robots, and rollback that works over a bad link.\n\nSigning and provenance for anything that lands on a robot.\n\nDeveloper platform\nReproducible dev environments across laptops, shared dev machines, and robots.\n\nSelf-service tooling so an autonomy engineer can get a branch onto a robot without filing a ticket or learning Kubernetes.\n\nOnboarding path: a new engineer builds, tests in sim, and deploys to a bench robot on day one.\n\nInfrastructure and observability\nCloud and on-prem compute, storage for multi-TB robot logs, and the training/simulation cluster's operational layer.\n\nFleet observability: metrics, logs, and traces from robot to dashboard.\n\nSite infrastructure for deployments: VPN/overlay networking, local mirrors, offline-capable registry authorization.\n\nWhat We Are Looking For\n8+ years operating production infrastructure for a software engineering org, with direct ownership of CI/CD or developer platform work.\n\nDeep Linux systems fluency including networking, storage, systemd, kernel and driver debugging.\n\nHands-on ownership of a major CI system (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Buildkite, Jenkins) and an understanding of the build and cache layers underneath it.\n\nReal experience with a C/C++ build system at scale e.g., Bazel, CMake, or equivalent. 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