Robot Software Engineer - Networking, Data & Telemetry

Rhoda AI; Mountain View (WY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Rhoda AI is building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We are seeking a Robot Software Engineer to own the broad onboard software foundation, from networking to perception and control integration, data pipelines, and field testing.

You will collaborate with ML, perception, and controls engineers, debug across the full stack on real hardware, and help bring up new hardware revisions in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in robotics software engineering, embedded systems, or a closely related field.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals in C++, Python, or Rust.
• Experience with networking, IPC, and communication protocols for hardware-software systems (e.g., gRPC, DDS, MQTT, WebSockets)
• Familiarity with cloud storage and data upload pipelines (e.g., AWS, GCP, S3, GCS)
• Experience with ROS/ROS2 or similar robotics middleware in production or research contexts
• Ability to debug across the full stack - from driver-level issues to application behavior on live hardware
• Comfort working directly with physical hardware in fast-moving, ambiguous environments

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the networking and communication infrastructure that connects onboard robot systems to each other, to the cloud, and to teleoperation and monitoring systems
• Own data collection pipelines that capture sensor, telemetry, and behavioral data from the robot and reliably upload it to cloud storage for model training
• Build and maintain telemetry and observability systems - giving the team real-time visibility into robot health, system state, and field performance
• Develop internal tooling that accelerates robot software development: deployment pipelines, logging infrastructure, debugging tools, and field testing utilities
• Contribute to perception and control integration - helping connect sensor pipelines, onboard models, and control systems into a cohesive, reliable stack
• Support bring-up and field testing of new hardware revisions, debugging issues across the full onboard software stack
• Collaborate closely with ML, perception, and control engineers to ensure onboard systems meet the data quality and reliability requirements of model training and deployment

Skills

C++

Python

Rust

Tools

ROS/ROS2

gRPC

DDS

MQTT

WebSockets

AWS

GCP

Job description

Rhoda AI is building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We are seeking a Robot Software Engineer to own the broad onboard software foundation, from networking to perception and control integration, data pipelines, and field testing.

You will collaborate with ML, perception, and controls engineers, debug across the full stack on real hardware, and help bring up new hardware revisions in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.