Field-Deploy Robotics Software Engineer

Destro AI; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Destro AI in the Washington, DC area is hiring a Robotics Forward Deployed Engineer to own the software that runs MothershipOS in live customer warehouses. This field role demands off-hours work, extensive travel, and on-site deployments to ensure rapid stabilization and deployment success.

You will write production-grade code in Python or C++, build deployment tools, and coordinate with customer IT and engineering teams to uphold system reliability.

Qualifications

• 2 to 6 years of experience in systems engineering, robotics software, backend engineering, infrastructure, or field engineering.
• Comfortable being paged off-hours and traveling on short notice.
• Able to operate independently in ambiguous, high-pressure environments without a fully specified solution.
• Calm under pressure, direct with customers, and demonstrates strong ownership.

Responsibilities

• Write, test, and maintain production code running MothershipOS at customer sites, including deployment tooling and diagnostic utilities.
• Design and build internal tools that make field deployments faster and more repeatable.
• Translate field learnings into production-hardening fixes and improvements in the core codebase.
• Maintain clear technical documentation and runbooks so issues can be diagnosed consistently across sites.
• Deploy and validate Destro's software stack in live warehouses, working directly with customer operations, IT, and engineering teams.
• Own production issues end-to-end during launch and stabilization, including off-hours incidents.
• Improve uptime, throughput, and reliability of deployed systems through both code and infrastructure changes.
• Build and maintain containerized services (Docker Compose) running on Destro-managed servers and edge devices.
• Work with cloud infrastructure (GCP) for image management, versioning, and deployment tooling.
• Configure and troubleshoot networking, including VLANs, DHCP, internal DNS, and certificate-based service security.
• Debug across the full stack: robot state faults, sensor issues, API failures, container networking, database queries, and monitoring dashboards.

Skills

Python

C++

Git

Tools

Docker/Docker Compose

Linux administration

Networking

API protocols REST/WebSockets/MQTT

Job description

Destro AI in the Washington, DC area is hiring a Robotics Forward Deployed Engineer to own the software that runs MothershipOS in live customer warehouses. This field role demands off-hours work, extensive travel, and on-site deployments to ensure rapid stabilization and deployment success.

You will write production-grade code in Python or C++, build deployment tools, and coordinate with customer IT and engineering teams to uphold system reliability.