Principal Robotics Software Engineer - Autonomy & Safety

Weave Robotics, Inc.; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Weave Robotics, Inc. invites a Principal Robotics Software Engineer to define software architecture across autonomy, perception, controls, and systems software. You will compose independently developed capabilities into reliable robot behavior, enabling safe, goal-driven action in dynamic environments.

You will lead the behavioral core, integrate learned components while maintaining observability, and ensure robust recovery when things don’t go as planned. Strong C++ and Python are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building robotics software for robots deployed in the real world.
• Depth across the stack—from controllers to SLAM to navigation and system safety.
• Experience with behavior architectures at production scale.
• Experience designing systems around partial failure and recovery.
• Experience integrating learned or probabilistic components into deterministic frameworks.
• Strong cross-stack debugging skills and durable interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Define interfaces and architectural patterns for perception, autonomy, controls, and systems software.
• Build the behavioral core translating goals and state into coordinated action.
• Enable intelligent behavior using context, history, and environment understanding.
• Own system-level safety with preconditions, timeouts, and recovery ladders.
• Hunt systemic issues like latency, resource contention, and cascading failures across modules.
• Scale architecture by coordinating with controls, SLAM, and systems engineers.

Skills

Robotics software

C++

Python

System architecture

Behavior trees

Failure & recovery design

Job description

Weave Robotics, Inc. invites a Principal Robotics Software Engineer to define software architecture across autonomy, perception, controls, and systems software. You will compose independently developed capabilities into reliable robot behavior, enabling safe, goal-driven action in dynamic environments.

You will lead the behavioral core, integrate learned components while maintaining observability, and ensure robust recovery when things don’t go as planned. Strong C++ and Python are essential.