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The company’s robots are engineered for demanding industrial environments, with a focus on real-world deployment and scalability.\nWe are hiring Senior / Staff Software Engineers to build the foundations that make our robots useful, reliable and maintainable. The work spans software interfaces, on-robot systems, fleet services and engineering tools, connecting capabilities on the robot with the people and systems that use them.\nWe welcome depth in one or more of these areas. Your initial ownership will reflect your strengths and the team's priorities, with opportunities to contribute across adjacent areas as our systems evolve. You will stay close to implementation, work with engineers across software and hardware, and see your decisions operate on real robots.\nResponsibilities\nDepending on your experience and agreed ownership, your work may include:\nSoftware Architecture & Interfaces: Design and implement shared libraries and clear contracts for commands, state, execution and compatibility across robot capabilities, along with reference clients, examples and documentation that let other engineers use them.\n\nRobot Systems & Runtime: Build reliable computing and runtime foundations, including target builds, configuration, startup, readiness, hardware integration and recovery.\n\nFleet & Data Services: Develop services for robot health, telemetry, incident evidence, recording access and software delivery visibility across unreliable networks.\n\nDeveloper Workflows: Create tools and infrastructure that make integration, deployment, diagnosis and validation more repeatable and efficient.\n\nEnd-to-End Engineering: Take a substantial workstream from design and implementation through integration, deployment, investigation and improvement.\n\nVerification & Reliability: Use tests, traces and operational evidence to understand behavior and validate changes, including AI-assisted implementation.\n\nTechnical Collaboration: Work across component boundaries, communicate trade-offs and help other engineers build on your work. At Staff level, lead cross-team architecture, migration and adoption.\n\nRequirements\nEducation: BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\n\nSoftware Engineering: Strong production programming, design and debugging skills in languages relevant to your area, such as C++, Python, Go or comparable languages.\n\nRelevant Depth: Substantial experience in at least one of shared software interfaces, Linux/embedded systems, backend/distributed services, connected-device platforms or developer infrastructure.\n\nDelivered Systems: Experience shipping and maintaining software used by other engineers or users, with clear ownership of implementation and results.\n\nSystems Reasoning: Ability to reason about state, asynchronous execution, failures, interfaces and meaningful verification.\n\nCollaboration & Adaptability: Ability to work across disciplines, clarify unfamiliar assumptions and learn new systems through practical engineering.\n\nLevel of Ownership: Senior candidates should demonstrate independent ownership of substantial workstreams. Staff candidates should also demonstrate architectural impact across components and owners, hands-on delivery and successful adoption.\n\nRequires 5 days/week in-office collaboration with the teams.\n\nBonus Qualifications\nExperience in any of the following is valuable; no candidate is expected to cover every area:\nRobotics, autonomy or other hardware-integrated products, including ROS 2 or comparable middleware.\n\nEmbedded computing, target toolchains, runtime lifecycle or on-device deployment and recovery.\n\nStateful APIs, reusable client libraries, software compatibility or interface migration.\n\nDevice telemetry, reliable data delivery, observability, recording pipelines or fleet operations.\n\nCI, hardware automation, developer tools or reproducible release workflows.\n\nBenefits\nCompetitive stock options/equity programs.\nHealth, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) plan.\nVisa sponsorship and green card support for qualified candidates.\nLunches and dinners, a fully stocked kitchen, and regular team-building events.\nCompensation: Salary $165,000-$265,000 USD + Bonus + Equity\nThe base salary range above represents the expected compensation for this full-time U.S. position. 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