Founding Systems Engineer, Edge & Robotics Infra

Reflection Robotics, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Reflection Robotics, Inc. is seeking a founding software engineer to build a reliable edge compute system for factory robots. You will own the layer between models and robot motion, ensuring low latency, remote updates, and robust operation in real-world environments.

You will also develop the customer-facing apps used by factory workers to operate and monitor the system, collaborating closely with robotics and ML teams to align hardware behavior with software design.

Qualifications

• Strong systems engineering fundamentals including latency, concurrency, and failure modes.
• Experience building and operating distributed or fleet-style systems.
• Comfort working near hardware and across heterogeneous environments.
• Track record of shipping reliable, real-world systems.
• Ability to work in-person in Seattle on weekdays.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a deployment system for heterogeneous edge devices.
• Build remote management tooling for updates, monitoring, and troubleshooting without physical access.
• Create robust data pipelines to capture sensor data and actions from edge devices.
• Profile and optimize the full control loop to minimize latency between controller and policy.
• Make tradeoffs to keep runtime lightweight on constrained hardware.
• Instrument the system to diagnose failures remotely and enable graceful recovery.
• Collaborate with robotics and ML teams to understand real-world hardware behavior.
• Develop customer-facing apps for factory workers to operate and monitor the system.

Skills

Edge systems

Distributed systems

Latency optimization

Hardware awareness

Seattle in-person

Job description

Reflection Robotics, Inc. is seeking a founding software engineer to build a reliable edge compute system for factory robots. You will own the layer between models and robot motion, ensuring low latency, remote updates, and robust operation in real-world environments.

You will also develop the customer-facing apps used by factory workers to operate and monitor the system, collaborating closely with robotics and ML teams to align hardware behavior with software design.