Edge-Compute Robotics Software Engineer

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 176,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k)

Equity

Paid Holidays

Parental Leave

Pre-Tax Commuter Benefit

Team lunch

Job summary

Atoms, a San Francisco-based robotics company, is building real-world AI-powered machines for industries like food, mining, and transport. The role focuses on developing low-latency C++ software for edge compute, designing robust messaging, and creating interfaces with vehicle hardware to enable reliable, scalable autonomous systems.

The team emphasizes cross-disciplinary collaboration, system-level thinking, and delivering impact through hardware-software-integrated solutions.

Qualifications

• Proficient with Python, C++, bash, git, linux kernels, docker.
• Comfortable diagnosing issues via dmesg, kernel logs, and systemd (journalctl, unit/service management).
• Experience with inter-process communication.
• Familiarity with bus protocols.
• Experience with various sensor interfaces (LiDAR, radar, cameras, IMU).
• Profiling, benchmarking, and memory management experience.
• Familiarity with common networking utilities.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, capable of working effectively in a multidisciplinary team and communicating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop low-latency, deterministic C++ software that executes on the vehicle’s edge compute to process data and control the vehicle
• Design and maintain the high-performance messaging stack that routes data between modules
• Write driver interfaces and safety monitors that interact directly with vehicle hardware
• Build core system infrastructure, including onboard data logging, time synchronization (PTP), memory management, process lifecycle management, etc
• Implement real-time diagnostics, watchdog timers, and redundancy logic to detect and recover from software or hardware faults mid-drive
• Maintain the tooling for securely building, deploying, and updating OS and vehicle software images across the fleet

Skills

Python

C++

bash

git

Linux kernel

docker

dmesg

journalctl

systemd

IPC

bus protocols

LiDAR

radar

cameras

IMU

Tools

dmesg

journalctl

systemd

IPC mechanisms

unit/service management

Job description

Atoms, a San Francisco-based robotics company, is building real-world AI-powered machines for industries like food, mining, and transport. The role focuses on developing low-latency C++ software for edge compute, designing robust messaging, and creating interfaces with vehicle hardware to enable reliable, scalable autonomous systems.

The team emphasizes cross-disciplinary collaboration, system-level thinking, and delivering impact through hardware-software-integrated solutions.