Senior/Staff Autonomy Software Generalist, Relay Robotics
$120-200k
+ Equity
Office located in San Jose, CA
Autonomous service robots
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Autonomous service robots
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$120-200k
+ Equity
Office located in San Jose, CA
21-100 employees
Company mission
To measurably improve people's lives by creating and deploying beautifully simple. sophisticated, and friendly service robots that work safely, securely, and reliably in human environments.
Role
Who you are
- Master’s degree in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- 4 or more years developing production robotics or autonomy software
- Strong proficiency in ROS, C++ and Python in a Linux environment
- Hands-on experience implementing and tuning algorithms in two or more of: perception, path/motion planning, localization/mapping, sensor calibration
- Experience with deploying deep learning models
- Solid software engineering fundamentals: Git, code review, CI/CD, and build pipeline maintenance
- Practical experience working with real sensor data from lidar, cameras, and/or ToF sensors
- Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and ship to real hardware
Desirable
- Familiarity with cutting-edge ML approaches to localization, mapping, and perception (e.g., object detection and tracking, learned features, visual place recognition)
- Experience with cloud-based or collaborative/lifelong SLAM systems
- Experience with containerization and deployment tooling
- A track record of staying current with robotics and AI research and bringing new ideas into practice
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an autonomy software generalist to work across the full robotics stack — perception, localization, mapping, and planning — while collaborating closely with hardware, firmware, applications, and operations teams. This is a broad role suited to someone who thrives on solving problems end-to-end, from algorithm design to fleet-scale deployment, and who stays energized by the fast pace of advances in robotics and AI
- Design, implement, tune, and improve path and motion planning algorithms for safe, smooth, and continuous robot motion in large-scale, dynamic environments
- Develop perception algorithms using both deep learning and classical geometric computer vision
- Implement, tune, and maintain localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms, applying state-of-the-art ML approaches where they add value
- Perform sensor selection and evaluation across lidar, cameras, and ToF sensors, balancing performance against cost and other constraints
- Develop and maintain calibration algorithms for the above sensors
- Help shape the autonomy roadmap by identifying technical gaps and risks, proposing prioritized initiatives, and translating them into milestones
- Build tooling and metrics to test, evaluate, and continuously improve fleet performance, including regression detection and proactive service triggers
- Own high-quality software engineering practices: version control (GitHub), code review, CI/CD, and maintaining build and deployment pipelines
- Work cross-functionally with hardware, firmware, applications, and operations teams to develop, ship, and scale new products
Our take
Relay Robotics makes robots for the hospitality industry. Specifically, it’s developed autonomous delivery robots that hotels can sign up to on a subscription basis, that use Wi-Fi to ferry around the different items and deliveries that guests often request in their rooms.
Relay Robotics (previously Savioke) has quietly become a major player in hospitality robotics in the US and its robots are used at major hotel chains like Hilton, Marriott, Radisson, and Mandarin Oriental, as well as hospitals like Dartmouth and Georgetown. In 2023, it expanded its products with the introduction of Relay2, a hotel delivery robot that has twice the capacity of earlier models.
Diversifying out to hospitals was a smart play - and it no doubt helped insulate the company a little from the rocky period that hospitality went through over recent years. Furthermore, the fact that in 2023, 87% of hotels are short-staffed means that there is more of a need for Relay than ever before. The solid foundation that Relay Robotics has built up in this sector has provided a good springboard for growth, and it is doing well expanding out even further to other areas in which this robot’s simple but effective function is useful.
Steph
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Company
Funding (1 round)
May 2022
$10m
SERIES A
Total funding: $10m
Company HQ
Campbell, CA
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