# Senior Software Engineer, Real-Time Systems

Your New Role and Team Sanctuary, a world leader in building AI-based control systems for humanoid robots, is looking to hire a skilled and motivated Senior Software Engineer to join our Real Time Systems team. The Real Time Software Engineer is a crucial part of our team, supporting the integration and control of complex robotic systems through deterministic and low-latency software frameworks. Reporting to the Real Time Software Lead, you’ll contribute to the overall efficiency and effectiveness of our growing organization. The right candidate will be a valued part of the team as you support the continued improvement in our hardware interface scaling, robot embodiment support, and dexterous manipulation systems, own the coordination of project deliverables across control and AI integration boundaries, and innovate best practices that drive continuous improvements in our motion control stack and system-level integration readiness. Success Criteria In your first 90 days, you will develop a strong understanding of our real-time software architecture, robotic control systems, and deployment environments. You will begin contributing to the development, debugging, and optimization of p

- **Id**: 3886526
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/sanctuary-ai-senior-software-engineer-real-time-systems>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Vancouver, Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T19:51:43Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T05:48:26Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5521
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Robotics AI, Humanoid Robots

## Company

- **Id**: 10798
- **Name**: Sanctuary AI
- **Domain**: sanctuary.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/sanctuary>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Kula

## Technologies

- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **EtherCAT** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **ROS** — Optional: no
- **ros2_control** — Optional: no
- **ROS2** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T19:51:43Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 5
- **Expected fill days**: 63
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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