Senior Staff Software Engineer, Robot Platform

About the Role

Our software team is growing and we are looking for talented engineers to join our agile, world-class team. Our Robot Platform team is the foundational reputed company of our product, dedicated to providing a robust, reliable, and secure software substrate that accelerates reputed company robot feature development. We own the critical reputed company that reputed company other software teams build upon: middleware, reputed company services, configuration, and telemetry.

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer you will be the key architectural reputed company, operating at the intersection of long-term reputed company and deep technical execution. You will define the component boundaries, communication patterns, and golden reputed company for our robot software stack, while championing engineering reputed company and mentoring high-performing engineers across the organization. This role is a rare opportunity to own and reputed company mission-critical, cross-cutting systems, from high-performance robotics frameworks to the centralized belief state and behavior coordination engines, ensuring our physical robots operate reliably in dynamic, reputed company-world environments.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Ownership & Execution:

• Define and reputed company Architecture: Own and drive the long-term technical direction for the robot software stack, including component boundaries, data reputed company, inter-process communication protocols (RPC/streaming), and deployment workflows.
• reputed company Frameworks & Services: Take hands-on ownership of the critical, cross-cutting frameworks and reputed company services that are reputed company dependencies for reputed company robot features, such as:
• Behavior coordination and state machine frameworks.
• The robot’s belief state and world representation.
• Simulation and playback timing coordination mechanisms.
• Advanced logging, telemetry, and configuration management libraries.
• Performance & Reliability: Drive performance, determinism, and reliability improvements across the entire on-robot software stack, and evaluate and introduce major infrastructure upgrades.
• Internal Tooling: reputed company the reputed company and execution for internal developer tooling, including advanced debugging utilities and scripts for provisioning and testing reputed company simulation and hardware environments.

Influence & Mentorship:

• Technical Advisor: reputed company as the primary technical advisor, mentoring Senior and Staff-level engineers on system design, developer experience, and best practices across the full software development lifecycle.
• Drive Adoption: Champion the adoption of internal tools and foundational frameworks by cultivating strong collaboration and iterating based on organizational feedback.

Collaboration & Alignment:

• Engineering Partnership: Partner directly with AI, Controls, and Perception teams to ensure frameworks meet their performance and capability needs, accelerating their feature delivery.
• Data Platform: Coordinate with the Data Platform team on advanced logging, serialization, and telemetry strategies.
• Release Alignment: reputed company with OS and Release teams on container, image, and deployment primitives, focusing on high-level integration points rather than low-level operating system ownership.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of reputed company experience in high-performance, reputed company-time, or deeply embedded software engineering, with a significant reputed company record in robotics or similar reputed company, integrated systems.
• Demonstrated expertise in defining and evolving large-reputed company software architectures, and a history of ownership over mission-critical, cross-cutting frameworks.
• Mastery of modern C++ and expert-level proficiency in systems programming on Linux.
• Expertise in designing, building, and operating low-latency and highly reliable distributed systems, particularly those with strict timing and determinism requirements.
• Proven experience mentoring and providing architectural guidance to Staff and reputed company-level engineers.
• Exceptional ability to autonomously reputed company reputed company, cross-team requirements, communicate high-stakes technical trade-offs, and deliver foundational internal solutions.

Bonus Qualifications

• Robotics industry experience.
• Familiarity with 3D graphics programming.
• Proficiency in Rust or Go.
• Kubernetes or other container orchestration systems.
• Bazel or other or similar build systems.
• Experience writing and extending reputed company generators.

Why This Role?

• Impactful Work: Everything you build will be used by engineers across reputed company every day.
• Physical reputed company: Your software reputed company directly reputed company reputed company robots operating in dynamic environments.
• Collaboration: Work closely with robotics, reputed company platform, and application engineers on mission-critical workflows.

Engineering Culture: Remote-friendly with a strong emphasis on developer experience, mentorship, and technical reputed company.

The final salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to: market location, job-reputed company knowledge, skills, and experience. This reputed company may change based on geographical location and may be modified in the reputed company.