Senior Embedded Robotics Platform Engineer

Serve Robotics Inc; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Serve Robotics Inc is hiring a senior software engineer to design, develop, test, and maintain robotics middleware and applications on embedded Linux. You will own significant platform components through design, validation, deployment, and fleet-wide operation.

You will collaborate with autonomy, systems, and hardware teams to improve reliability, performance, and safety, translating system requirements into software behavior and tests.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering with production C++ (C++17+).
• Experience in embedded Linux systems software development.
• Strong multithreading, concurrency, IPC and systems-level programming.
• Experience designing software for latency-sensitive, real-time or high-reliability systems.
• Experience profiling and optimizing embedded software for performance and resource use.
• Independent ownership of complex software components end-to-end.
• Strong troubleshooting and cross-disciplinary collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain robotics middleware and application frameworks using modern C++ on embedded Linux.
• Own key platform components from design through deployment and operation across Serve's robot fleet.
• Collaborate with software teams to improve reliability, performance, and developer experience.
• Work with Autonomy and Systems Engineering on risk assessment, fault-handling and software architecture.
• Translate safety and reliability requirements into software behavior, interfaces, and tests.
• Develop instrumentation, benchmarks, logging, tracing, and fleet-level metrics.

Skills

C++17

Embedded Linux

Multithreading

IPC

System design

Mentorship

Communication

Safety-critical

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Robotics/CE

Job description

Serve Robotics Inc is hiring a senior software engineer to design, develop, test, and maintain robotics middleware and applications on embedded Linux. You will own significant platform components through design, validation, deployment, and fleet-wide operation.

You will collaborate with autonomy, systems, and hardware teams to improve reliability, performance, and safety, translating system requirements into software behavior and tests.