Senior Embedded Robotics Platform Engineer

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

Job summary

Serve Robotics Inc. in the United States seeks an experienced software engineer to design, develop, test, and maintain robotics middleware and application frameworks using modern C++ on embedded Linux across our robot fleet.

You will own significant platform components from design through validation and operation, collaborating with software teams to improve reliability, performance, and developer experience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with C++ (C++17+).
• Production software experience in embedded Linux environments.
• Strong understanding of concurrency, interprocess communication, and real‑time systems.
• Experience owning complex components from design to deployment.
• Ability to troubleshoot across software and hardware boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain robotics middleware and application frameworks using modern C++ on embedded Linux.
• Own significant platform components from design through validation and operation across the robot fleet.
• Collaborate with other software teams to improve reliability, performance, and developer experience.
• Work with autonomy and systems engineering on risk assessments and safety‑related software strategies.
• Translate system requirements into software interfaces and verification strategies.

Skills

C++ development

Embedded Linux

Multithreading

Systems-level software

Latency-sensitive

Problem solving

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Robotics/Engineering

Tools

NVIDIA Jetson

Job description

Serve Robotics Inc. in the United States seeks an experienced software engineer to design, develop, test, and maintain robotics middleware and application frameworks using modern C++ on embedded Linux across our robot fleet.

You will own significant platform components from design through validation and operation, collaborating with software teams to improve reliability, performance, and developer experience.