Robotics Build & Release Engineer (CI/CD & Automation)

Rhoda AI; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Rhoda AI is seeking an Engineering Productivity Engineer to own the build, test, and release pipelines for both robot and cloud software. You will design fast, reproducible build systems (Bazel, Yocto) and oversee CI infrastructure with Kubernetes runners, plus manage artifacts and firmware deployments.

You will reduce build times and CI costs while collaborating with engineers to streamline workflows. The role spans development, testing, and deployment across embedded and cloud environments in

Qualifications

• 3+ years of industry experience building developer infrastructure including build, release, and test automation.
• Strong knowledge of software build, release, and test automation patterns.
• Production-grade code in Python, Go, C++, or Rust.
• Systematic debugging across stack: code, build, environment, infrastructure, hardware.

Responsibilities

• Own the build systems for robot and cloud software (Bazel, Yocto) to be fast and reproducible.
• Design, build, and maintain CI/test infrastructure including Kubernetes runners on hardware test benches.
• Own artifact and container registries and dependency storage.
• Track and reduce build time, CI flakiness, and CI cost.
• Collaborate with engineers to remove friction in the development workflow.
• Own versioning and promotion of artifacts from build to staging to production.
• Deploy cloud services and build/roll out robot images and firmware over the air.
• Build rollback and release-safety mechanisms with SRE and deployment teams.
• Build test frameworks and CI gates; create harnesses for HIL and SIL tests.
• Partner with QA to automate manual test plans.

Skills

CI/CD

Bazel

Yocto

Python

Go

C++

Rust

Kubernetes

Git

Docker

Tools

Jenkins

Bazel

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Rhoda AI is seeking an Engineering Productivity Engineer to own the build, test, and release pipelines for both robot and cloud software. You will design fast, reproducible build systems (Bazel, Yocto) and oversee CI infrastructure with Kubernetes runners, plus manage artifacts and firmware deployments.

You will reduce build times and CI costs while collaborating with engineers to streamline workflows. The role spans development, testing, and deployment across embedded and cloud environments in