Senior Embedded Robotics Platform Engineer

Serve Robotics; United States; Remote; CAD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Serve Robotics is building a next-generation robotic delivery platform. The role focuses on designing and implementing robotics middleware and high‑reliability software for embedded Linux on our fleet of sidewalk delivery robots.

You will own major platform components, collaborate with cross‑functional teams, and help drive safety‑critical software architectures, performance instrumentation, and scalable system health metrics.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including production software in modern C++ (C++17+).
• Experience developing and debugging systems software in embedded Linux environments.
• Strong understanding of multithreaded programming, concurrency, synchronization, and IPC.
• Experience designing software for latency-sensitive, real-time, or high-reliability systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain robotics middleware and application frameworks using modern C++ on embedded Linux.
• Own significant platform components from design to deployment across Serve’s robot fleet.
• Collaborate with Autonomy and Systems Engineering on risk assessments, fault-handling strategies, and software architecture.
• Translate system-level safety and reliability requirements into software behavior and interfaces.
• Develop instrumentation, logging, and fleet-level metrics to measure software performance.

Skills

C++17+

Embedded Linux

Multithreading

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Robotics/Engineering

Tools

NVIDIA Jetson

Linux internals

Job description

Serve Robotics is building a next-generation robotic delivery platform. The role focuses on designing and implementing robotics middleware and high‑reliability software for embedded Linux on our fleet of sidewalk delivery robots.

You will own major platform components, collaborate with cross‑functional teams, and help drive safety‑critical software architectures, performance instrumentation, and scalable system health metrics.