Robotics Infrastructure Platform Engineer

ArcBest; Fort Smith (AR); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

ArcBest in Fort Smith, AR, is seeking a Robotics Software Engineer III - Infrastructure to design scalable infrastructure across the robotics software lifecycle. You will standardize CI/CD, manage artifacts, and enable SIL/HIL and ML model deployment workflows.

Ideal candidates have 4 years in software infrastructure or DevOps, strong Linux and container skills, and experience with ROS/ROS2 and MLOps. The role emphasizes reliability, traceability, and compliance within autonomy systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field is required.
• Master's Degree or equivalent industry experience in robotics, autonomous systems, or distributed systems preferred.
• 4 years of experience in software infrastructure, platform engineering, or DevOps position(s) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and enable shared infrastructure supporting the end-to-end robotics software lifecycle: Source, Build, Test, Simulate, Deploy, Monitor.
• Standardize build systems and CI/CD pipelines across robotics software, embedded systems, and simulation environments.
• Define and manage artifact versioning strategies for software binaries, firmware, configuration, calibration data, maps, and vehicle-specific parameters.
• Establish platform standards, reference architectures, and best practices used across multiple product teams.
• Enable large-scale Software-in-the-Loop (SIL), Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL), and regression simulation workflows.
• Integrate simulation results into CI pipelines with clear pass/fail criteria and reporting.
• Support scenario-based testing, coverage tracking, and regression analysis.
• Provide infrastructure and tooling to improve correlation between simulation results and real-world vehicle behavior in collaboration with simulation and vehicle integration teams.

Skills

Linux

CI/CD

Containers

Bitbucket

Jira automation

MLOps

ROS/ROS2

Distributed systems

Real-time systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field

Master's degree or equivalent industry experience

Tools

ROS/ROS2

Bitbucket

Jira

Job description

ArcBest in Fort Smith, AR, is seeking a Robotics Software Engineer III - Infrastructure to design scalable infrastructure across the robotics software lifecycle. You will standardize CI/CD, manage artifacts, and enable SIL/HIL and ML model deployment workflows.

Ideal candidates have 4 years in software infrastructure or DevOps, strong Linux and container skills, and experience with ROS/ROS2 and MLOps. The role emphasizes reliability, traceability, and compliance within autonomy systems.