Robotics Software Engineer — Field Deployment

Destro AI; Sumner (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Destro AI is seeking a Robotics Software Engineer, Field Deployment and Support, to own the software that runs MothershipOS in live customer warehouses. This role writes and maintains production code and will serve as the on-site engineering presence to bring systems up, stabilized, or restored to full function.

You will regularly deploy and validate software stacks at customer sites, coordinate with IT and engineering teams, and own production issues end-to-end, including off-hours incidents.

Qualifications

• 2 to 6 years of experience in systems engineering, robotics software, backend engineering, or field engineering.
• Comfortable being paged off-hours and traveling on short notice.
• Able to operate independently in ambiguous, high-pressure environments without a fully specified solution.

Responsibilities

• Write, test, and maintain the software services that run MothershipOS at customer sites, including deployment tooling and diagnostic utilities.
• Deploy and validate Destro's software stack in live warehouses, working directly with customer operations, IT, and engineering teams.
• Own production issues end-to-end during launch and stabilization, including off-hours incidents.
• Build and maintain containerized services (Docker Compose) running on Destro-managed servers and edge devices.
• Configure and troubleshoot networking, including VLANs, DHCP, internal DNS, and certificate-based service security.
• Debug across the full stack: robot state faults, sensor issues, API failures, container networking, database queries, and monitoring dashboards.

Skills

Python

C++

Docker

Docker Compose

Linux

Networking

APIs

Git

Tools

Docker

Docker Compose

Git

Job description

Destro AI is seeking a Robotics Software Engineer, Field Deployment and Support, to own the software that runs MothershipOS in live customer warehouses. This role writes and maintains production code and will serve as the on-site engineering presence to bring systems up, stabilized, or restored to full function.

You will regularly deploy and validate software stacks at customer sites, coordinate with IT and engineering teams, and own production issues end-to-end, including off-hours incidents.