Robotics Systems Software Engineer - Real-Time Linux & IPC

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Weave is seeking a Systems Software Engineer focused on the OS to own the kernel, IPC layer, and real-time behavior for our robotics platform. You’ll manage boot, OTA updates with rollback, service supervision, crash capture, and health monitoring, bringing up new hardware alongside engineers from electrical, controls, and robotics teams.

You will design the core systems used by all robotics applications, optimize performance, and ensure reliability across the full stack, from kernel to

Qualifications

• 3+ years working at the OS level, including schedulers, memory, filesystems, and kernel/userspace boundary.
• Production-quality C++ software for embedded or real-time systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement core systems including on-device and remote networking, IPC, scheduling, synchronization, and resource management.
• Profile, optimize CPU utilization, latency, throughput, memory usage, and scheduling across the robotics software stack.
• Build diagnostics, health monitoring, and fault-handling to improve robot robustness and serviceability.
• Debug across hardware, firmware, and robotics software Stack.

Skills

Deep Linux internals

Modern C++

Systems programming

Hardware/software debugging

Tools

U-Boot

Device trees

Buildroot/Yocto

GDB/strace/ltrace

Job description

Weave is seeking a Systems Software Engineer focused on the OS to own the kernel, IPC layer, and real-time behavior for our robotics platform. You’ll manage boot, OTA updates with rollback, service supervision, crash capture, and health monitoring, bringing up new hardware alongside engineers from electrical, controls, and robotics teams.

You will design the core systems used by all robotics applications, optimize performance, and ensure reliability across the full stack, from kernel to