Robotics Software Engineer - Autonomy & Field Deployment

TAR; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

TAR is building the world’s first off-grid power plant for data centers powered by renewables. As a Software Engineer on the robotics team in San Francisco, you’ll own software spanning middleware to fleet coordination, running on real hardware outdoors and traveling to deployment sites as needed.

You will ship production robotics software, work across perception, planning, and controls, and support field deployment with robust offline operation and real-time performance.

Qualifications

• Professional experience building software for robotic or autonomous systems.
• Track record shipping production robotics software on real hardware.
• Expertise across the autonomy stack, from fast prototypes to production code in a systems language (C, C++, or Rust).
• Experience building for real-time and resource-constrained environments.
• Ability to take a system a long way independently, from architecture through field deployment.
• High ownership, bias for speed, and comfort with ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Write software across the autonomy stack for prototype and production robots: perception, state estimation, localization, motion planning, and controls.
• Implement task and motion planning with centimeter tolerances at construction pace.
• Build fleet layer: task allocation, coordination, and deconfliction across machines at a site.
• Stand up simulation and CI; build logging, telemetry, and data pipelines for debugging.
• Build operator-facing tooling for teleoperation, supervision, and diagnostics used daily.
• Ship software that runs offline and degrades gracefully at remote sites with limited connectivity.
• Go to the field, debug on the machine, and close the sim-to-real loop with mechanical and electrical teams.

Skills

Robotics software

Production robotics experience

Autonomy stack

Real-time systems

Field deployment

Ownership

Job description

TAR is building the world’s first off-grid power plant for data centers powered by renewables. As a Software Engineer on the robotics team in San Francisco, you’ll own software spanning middleware to fleet coordination, running on real hardware outdoors and traveling to deployment sites as needed.

You will ship production robotics software, work across perception, planning, and controls, and support field deployment with robust offline operation and real-time performance.