Production-Grade Robotics Research Engineer

XDOF; San Mateo; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

XDOF is seeking a Research Engineer to bridge the gap between research prototypes and production-grade software on embedded hardware. You will work across perception, ML, and data infrastructure, turning experiments into reliable, scalable solutions.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in software engineering for systems/performance/production ML, strong C++ (17/20), CUDA, Python, and Linux expertise to optimize and deploy real-time workloads.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of industry experience in software engineering with a focus on systems, performance, or production ML.
• Strong C++ proficiency, including modern C++ (C++17/20), memory management, and performance-conscious coding patterns.
• CUDA programming experience: ability to write, profile, and debug GPU kernels.
• Experience with CPU performance optimization: profiling, cache behavior, SIMD, latency reduction.
• Proficiency with Python and familiarity with ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow) to read/modify research code.
• Familiarity with Linux systems, build systems, debugging tools, and containerization.

Responsibilities

• Translate research prototype code into production-grade software for embedded hardware.
• Hardening perception/SLAM pipelines for real-time execution on embedded platforms.
• Profile and optimize performance-critical code at CPU/GPU levels using tools like perf/NSight.
• Write and debug CUDA kernels for acceleration of compute-heavy workloads.
• Integrate research outputs into production codebase with testing, error handling, and observability.
• Containerize workloads (Docker) so they can be scaled by the infra team.
• Collaborate with researchers to balance accuracy, latency, and resource usage.

Skills

C++ proficiency

CUDA programming

Python

Linux

Performance optimization

Machine Learning frameworks

Real-time/embedded systems

Containerization

Tools

Perf tools

NSight

CUDA kernels

Docker

Job description

XDOF is seeking a Research Engineer to bridge the gap between research prototypes and production-grade software on embedded hardware. You will work across perception, ML, and data infrastructure, turning experiments into reliable, scalable solutions.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in software engineering for systems/performance/production ML, strong C++ (17/20), CUDA, Python, and Linux expertise to optimize and deploy real-time workloads.