Senior Software Engineer, Chef Robotics

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, or a closely related field
• 4+ years building production software in Linux environments, with strong systems-level expertise
• Experience shipping and maintaining software across a fleet of devices — not just individual systems
• Strong fundamentals: networking protocols (TCP, UDP, PTP), build systems, performance profiling, memory optimization
• Track record of leading complex, multi-component software projects from design to production
• Familiarity with ROS or similar robotics middleware

Desirable

• Chef Robotics is building autonomous robots that work alongside humans in commercial food preparation environments — and the platform they run on has to be rock-solid
• As a Senior Software Engineer on the Robotics Platform team, you own the foundation: the compute, OS, middleware, and networking that everything else depends on
• You'll be working on everything from low-level system software to high-bandwidth sensor data logging, debugging, and performance analysis
• Ideal candidates will also be interested in overall product performance and will work closely with senior robotics and perception engineers to debug, test, and release new autonomy features
• Startup urgency — you'll lead the systems-level work that makes those features reliable in production
• Lead the upgrade of our autonomy software OS and middleware stack, across production systems
• Define software architecture standards, release processes, and testing practices for platform software
• Own fleet-wide platform reliability — diagnose and fix low-level systems issues (drivers, networking, Linux configuration) across deployed robots
• Investigate and resolve networking and load bottlenecks that affect perception and autonomy algorithm performance
• Build provisioning and configuration tooling that scales robot bring-up with manufacturing
• Integrate new hardware, sensors, and cameras into the platform; monitor performance across the fleet
• Set the bar for engineering quality — well-structured, well-tested, production-ready code