Robotics Software Engineer I – Automation & Diagnostics

Ampcus Inc; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Ampcus Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Software Development Engineer I to help improve reliability and testability of robotic systems.

You will build tools and infrastructure to diagnose failures, automate workflows, reproduce software environments, and track assets across robot tests. You will collaborate across hardware, firmware, simulation, and ML teams to turn fragmented knowledge into dependable software and enable engineers to work more effectively.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in a technical field.
• Proficiency in Python and C++.
• Experience designing, implementing, testing, and operating production-quality software.
• Experience with Linux and debugging distributed systems.
• Experience building automation and internal developer tools.
• Familiarity with APIs, databases, and event-driven/workflow-based systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop tools for diagnosing, maintaining, and upgrading robotic systems.
• Convert operational knowledge into structured, searchable, context-aware support systems.
• Build automation for operational workflows including triage, ownership, notifications, approvals, remediation, and escalation.
• Design systems to safely automate actions on production or lab infrastructure with human review and auditability.
• Maintain a registry of robots, test runs, software artifacts, ML models, firmware versions, configurations, and assets.
• Establish traceability between test inputs and results for reproducibility and auditing.
• Identify configuration and asset drift across development, simulation, and physical systems.
• Create automated verification and regression-testing workflows for robotics software and infrastructure changes.
• Reproduce robot software stacks in development or lab environments for debugging and testing.
• Assist with separating software workloads from robot hardware and validating changes across compute environments.
• Support testing and performance evaluation of optimized ML inference paths.
• Improve observability through logging, metrics, dashboards, alerts, and diagnostics.

Skills

Python

C++

Object-oriented programming

Linux

APIs

Databases

Event-driven systems

Workflow-based systems

Automation

Distributed systems debugging

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/Robotics or related field

Job description

Ampcus Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Software Development Engineer I to help improve reliability and testability of robotic systems.

You will build tools and infrastructure to diagnose failures, automate workflows, reproduce software environments, and track assets across robot tests. You will collaborate across hardware, firmware, simulation, and ML teams to turn fragmented knowledge into dependable software and enable engineers to work more effectively.