Senior Embedded Robotics Platform Engineer

Hidden Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Hidden Jobs seeks a senior embedded software engineer to build and maintain the robotics platform powering a fleet of autonomous sidewalk delivery robots. You will use modern C++ on embedded Linux with end-to-end ownership of platform components and collaborate with autonomy and systems teams on safety-critical behavior.

You will design, test, and maintain middleware and application frameworks, own major platform components, and partner with consumer software teams to close reliability gaps

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant production work in modern C++ (C++17 or newer).
• Experience developing and debugging systems software in embedded Linux environments.
• Strong grasp of multithreaded programming, concurrency, synchronization, interprocess communication, and systems-level development.
• Background designing software for latency-sensitive, safety-related, real-time, or high-reliability systems.
• Experience profiling and optimizing embedded software for performance, reliability, and resource utilization.
• Demonstrated ability to independently own complex software components from design through deployment.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across software and hardware boundaries and clear written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain robotics middleware and application frameworks using modern C++ on embedded Linux.
• Own significant platform components from design through deployment across the robot fleet.
• Partner with consumer software teams to identify reliability, performance, and developer-experience gaps and ship reusable solutions.
• Collaborate with autonomy and systems engineering on risk assessments, failure analysis, fault-handling strategies, and software architecture.
• Translate system-level safety and reliability requirements into software behavior, interfaces, and verification strategies.
• Build instrumentation, benchmarks, logging, tracing, and fleet-level metrics that surface software health and reliability.
• Diagnose complex system-level issues spanning concurrency, scheduling, interprocess communication, networking, and constrained compute resources.
• Lead technical design and code reviews, contribute to engineering standards, and mentor other engineers.

Skills

C++17+

Embedded Linux

Multithreading

Systems-level dev

Troubleshooting

Code reviews

Mentoring

Software architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Robotics/CE

Tools

NVIDIA Jetson

IPC mechanisms

Profiling/Optimization

Protobuf/FlatBuffers/Cap'n Proto

RPC frameworks

Job description

Hidden Jobs seeks a senior embedded software engineer to build and maintain the robotics platform powering a fleet of autonomous sidewalk delivery robots. You will use modern C++ on embedded Linux with end-to-end ownership of platform components and collaborate with autonomy and systems teams on safety-critical behavior.

You will design, test, and maintain middleware and application frameworks, own major platform components, and partner with consumer software teams to close reliability gaps