Senior Staff Software Engineer, Agility Robotics

• 12+ years of professional experience in high-performance, real-time, or deeply embedded software engineering, with a significant track record in robotics or similar complex, integrated systems
• Demonstrated expertise in defining and evolving large-scale 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 Principal-level engineers
• Exceptional ability to autonomously gather complex, cross-team requirements, communicate high-stakes technical trade-offs, and deliver foundational internal solutions

Desirable

• 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 core of our product, dedicated to providing a robust, reliable, and secure software substrate that accelerates all robot feature development
• We own the critical layers that all other software teams build upon: middleware, core services, configuration, and telemetry
• As a Senior Staff Software Engineer you will be the key architectural driver, operating at the intersection of long-term strategy and deep technical execution
• You will define the component boundaries, communication patterns, and golden path for our robot software stack, while championing engineering excellence and mentoring high-performing engineers across the organization
• This role is a rare opportunity to own and evolve 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, real-world environments
• Define and Evolve Architecture: Own and drive the long-term technical direction for the robot software stack, including component boundaries, data contracts, inter-process communication protocols (RPC/streaming), and deployment workflows
• Core Frameworks & Services: Take hands-on ownership of the critical, cross-cutting frameworks and core services that are fundamental dependencies for all 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: Lead the strategy and execution for internal developer tooling, including advanced debugging utilities and scripts for provisioning and testing within simulation and hardware environments
• Technical Advisor: Act 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
• 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: Align with OS and Release teams on container, image, and deployment primitives, focusing on high-level integration points rather than low-level operating system ownership
• Impactful Work: Everything you build will be used by engineers across the company every day
• Physical Impact: Your software decisions directly affect real robots operating in dynamic environments
• Collaboration: Work closely with robotics, cloud platform, and application engineers on mission-critical workflows