Lead Software Engineer, AI, Cloud & Edge (Chapel Hill)

Blue Sky Robotics, Inc.; Chapel Hill (NC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Sky Robotics, Inc. is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to own and drive production software across front-end, back-end, device software, and AWS cloud infrastructure. This in-person role in Chapel Hill requires hands-on architectural decisions, disruptive AI tooling, and end-to-end delivery from prototype to deployment.

You will lead a small team, review code, and shape development workflows while ensuring security and reliability in embedded and cloud systems.

Qualifications

• Senior-level ownership of technical decisions and delivery for production software.
• Experience across front-end and back-end development, APIs, databases and integrations.
• Hands-on AWS experience with deploying and operating production applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead software development across the full stack, including UI, APIs, backend services, device software and cloud infra.
• Build and operate on AWS, ensuring secure, reliable cloud services with cost awareness.
• Automate testing and deployment with CI/CD pipelines and release management.
• Advance AI-assisted development and developer agents across implementation, testing and review.
• Connect devices to the cloud, enabling data processing, configuration and OTA updates.
• Put AI and computer vision into production with model and pipeline integration.
• Own secure development practices: access controls, secrets, dependencies, code review, deployment.
• Collaborate in a small team, review code, share knowledge, and maintain long-term reliability.

Skills

Frontend & Backend

APIs & Databases

AWS Experience

Python

CI/CD

Git & Version Control

Containers

Device Software

AI Coding Tools

Independent Work

Tools

Git

Containers

Job description

Blue Sky Robotics, Inc. is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to own and drive production software across front-end, back-end, device software, and AWS cloud infrastructure. This in-person role in Chapel Hill requires hands-on architectural decisions, disruptive AI tooling, and end-to-end delivery from prototype to deployment.

You will lead a small team, review code, and shape development workflows while ensuring security and reliability in embedded and cloud systems.