Field-Ready Robotics Systems Engineer

FieldAI; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

FieldAI in Irvine, CA is seeking a senior robotics software engineer to build and maintain field-ready software for embodied AI systems. You will integrate onboard compute, sensors, and software across robot platforms, and collaborate with autonomy, hardware, and deployment teams to ship reliable robotics solutions.

You have 5+ years in robotics or embedded software, strong C++/Python, Linux expertise, ROS/ROS 2 familiarity, and a track record debugging across software-hardware boundaries.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical field (CS/Robotics/EE).
• 5+ years of experience in robotics, systems software, embedded systems, or related engineering.
• Strong software engineering skills in C++ and Python.
• Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking, processes, devices, and system configuration.
• Hands-on experience developing, integrating, or debugging robotic or hardware-software systems.
• Familiarity with ROS/ROS 2 or similar robotics middleware.
• Ability to debug complex problems across software and hardware boundaries and drive them to resolution.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the systems software that powers FieldAI's robotic platforms.
• Bring up and integrate onboard compute, sensors, networking, and supporting hardware across different robot platforms.
• Develop tooling and services for robot provisioning, configuration, deployment, monitoring, diagnostics, and recovery.
• Integrate hardware interfaces, device drivers, vendor SDKs, and system services into a reliable robot runtime.
• Debug complex system-level issues spanning software, operating systems, networking, compute, sensors, and hardware.
• Improve robot reliability through automated testing, observability, health monitoring, and fault recovery.
• Collaborate with robotics, autonomy, hardware, infrastructure, and deployment teams to bring new platforms from development to field deployment.

Skills

C++

Python

Embedded systems

Linux

Debugging across software/hardware

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science/Robotics/EE

Tools

ROS/ROS 2

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

FieldAI in Irvine, CA is seeking a senior robotics software engineer to build and maintain field-ready software for embodied AI systems. You will integrate onboard compute, sensors, and software across robot platforms, and collaborate with autonomy, hardware, and deployment teams to ship reliable robotics solutions.

You have 5+ years in robotics or embedded software, strong C++/Python, Linux expertise, ROS/ROS 2 familiarity, and a track record debugging across software-hardware boundaries.