Senior Software Engineer, Bear Robotics
Infrastructure
$170-200k
Office located in Redwood City, CA
Robotics for the hospitality industry
Be an early applicant
Robotics for the hospitality industry
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-200k
Office located in Redwood City, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To support all businesses by empowering efficient workflows, and revolutionize productivity with state-of-the-art robotics solutions.
Role
Who you are
- BS/MS in Computer Science or related field
- Strong software engineering background with 4+ years of industry experience
- Ability to break down large features and implement practical solutions
- Curiosity about new technologies and flexibility to dive into parts of a SW stack at different times
- Extensive experience writing and debugging ROS/ROS2
- C++ and Python software engineering experience
- Experience with GNU/Linux systems and system-level resource management
- Effective cross-functional collaboration ability
Desirable
- Golang software engineering experience
- Experience with gRPC, Protobuf, and general API development
- Familiarity with Bazel or similar build systems
- Familiarity with ZMQ, MQTT or similar messaging protocols
- Familiarity with Docker or similar containerization platforms
What the job involves
- This role is working on our core platform infrastructure that powers all of our robots
- Our robotics stack covers a wide range of functionality, from sensors and behavior, to data management, and down to system and hardware level control
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll work to ensure we can sustainably scale, run, monitor, and control this large tech stack as we grow to many products and use-cases
- In your day-to-day, you’ll work across teams, mentor engineers, and play a central role in shaping the future of our platform in a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment
- Designing and implementing API’s
- Designing and implementing infrastructure in a multi-tenant distributed system
- Evaluating and debugging a complex robotics systems
- Integrating complex robotics systems into a larger software stack
- Building observability into our core infrastructure
- Possible mentorship for junior engineers or interns
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
- Prolonged periods of sitting/standing at a desk and working on a computer
- The employee routinely is required to sit; stand, walk; talk and hear; use hands to keyboard
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus
- Ability to lift 30 lbs
Our take
Many restaurants are struggling to keep up with service demands due to a lack of staff and rising costs. Traditional staffing methods are no longer enough to handle the fast pace and high expectations, creating a need for new, tech-driven solutions.
To solve this, Bear Robotics created AI-powered server robots called Servi. These robots move around the restaurant, delivering food and drinks to customers, reducing the workload on human staff. By handling routine tasks, they free up employees to focus on more important duties, improving services.
Servi robots have been successfully used in restaurants in the US, South Korea, and Japan, showing their growing importance in the industry. Bear Robotics has seen good funding which allowed it to improve its robotics technology and explore new uses beyond its current models. In 2025, LG acquired a majority stake in the company, effectively incorporating it as a subsidiary.
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Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2022
$70m
SERIES C
Aug 2021
$30m
SERIES B
Total funding: $111.5m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive Health Care Coverage
- Internet and Phone Reimbursement
- Remote Work Available
- Free Lunch
- Pet Friendly
- Stock Options
Company HQ
Redwood Village, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
John Ha
(CEO & Co-founder)Previously spent six years as a Technical Lead & Senior Software Engineer at Google. Former Adjunct Professor at KAIST(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), and former Intel Corporation Research Scientist.
Fangwei Li
(CTO & Co-founder)Spent four years at Google as a Software Engineer and as a co-founder in in-house incubator Area 120. Before this, they worked at Microsoft, also as a Software Engineer.
Juan Higueros
(COO & Co-founder)Former Director of Strategy and M&A at KPMG, and of Corporate Development at Polycom. They have also worked at Oracle as a Latin America Analyst, and at EY as Senior Manager of Operational Transaction Services.
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