Software Engineer, Diligent Robotics
Robotic Applications
AI-powered robots for patient care teams
Open for applications
AI-powered robots for patient care teams
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make technical advances towards robots and humans working together side by side, with an emphasis on human-centric design.
Role
Who you are
- Undergraduate or graduate degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in robotics, autonomous vehicles, or other complex cyber physical systems
- Strong proficiency in C++ and Python
- Core robotics expertise in at least one major domain (e.g., planning, localization, controls, behavior systems, task execution)
- Experience shipping software on real robots and debugging issues that emerge in unstructured, real-world environments
- Strong systems thinking and comfort working across interfaces between autonomy, platform infrastructure, and operational needs
- Excellent cross functional communication skills and a bias toward pragmatic solutions
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer – Robotic Applications, you will help strengthen and extend our core robotics platform, from task management and behavior orchestration to motion planning, localization, and controls
- Working closely with our Embodied AI team, you will deploy, integrate, and evaluate autonomy models on real robots operating in hospitals
- This work will include one of the first production-scale deployments of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and AI-generated manipulation behaviors, bringing the latest advances in embodied AI into real-world operation
- Your work will directly impact how robots behave in the real world, helping us continuously improve the reliability, robustness, and usefulness of autonomy in complex human environments
- Design, implement, and maintain core robotics platform subsystems (task management, behavior systems, planning, localization, control)
- Collaborate with Embodied AI partners to deploy, evaluate, and iterate on autonomy models in real robotic applications
- Integrate emerging components (e.g., world models) into production robotic workflows with a focus on reliability and observability
- Build test harnesses, regression coverage, and debugging tools to ensure high confidence releases and fast iteration cycles
- Contribute to architecture decisions that improve modularity, testability, and long-term maintainability of the robotics stack
- Mentor teammates and raise the bar on engineering quality, reliability, and operational excellence
Our take
Healthcare workers do everything they can to provide high-quality care to patients, but the high-pressure work environment can make this difficult. Whilst in-person care is their most important job, different scenarios will require workers to constantly fetch different medical items for patients, increasing job pressure and restricting the time workers have to spend with patients.
Diligent Robotics develops AI-powered robots for patient care teams called Moxi that can fetch, store, and deliver items needed within healthcare facilities. The robots have specialized storage compartments for sensitive medical materials and can safely navigate through elevators, security doors, automatic doors, and other existing infrastructure.
Whilst AI is becoming increasingly prevalent in healthcare, Diligent Robotics has taken a bold step by developing AI-driven robots that reduce the burden of item fetching for healthcare workers. Its Moxi robots now operate in more than 25 hospitals and have completed over 1.5M tasks, showing strong real-world traction. This success was further reinforced by Serve Robotics acquisition of the company, which aims to accelerate Moxi's development and expand the future of AI-powered healthcare support.
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Insights
70% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Sep 2023
$25m
LATE VC
Apr 2022
$30m
SERIES B
Total funding: $70.9m
Company benefits
- Competitive salary and equity based on experience and contribution
- Competitive health plan coverage for individuals and dependents
Company HQ
North Side, Austin, TX
Leadership
Andrea L. Thomaz
(Co-Founder & CEO)Andrea has been an Associate Professor at The University of Texas since 2016. Previously, they were an Assistant then Associate Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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