Senior Embedded Robotics Platform Engineer

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

Job summary

serverobotics is seeking a senior embedded software engineer to design, build, and maintain the robotics platform powering our autonomous sidewalk delivery robots. You will work with modern C++ on embedded Linux, owning platform components end-to-end and collaborating with autonomy and systems teams on safety-critical behavior.

You will lead design reviews, mentor engineers, build instrumentation and logging, and translate system requirements into robust software.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/Robotics/CE or related field.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering, with 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, IPC, and systems-level development.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain robotics middleware and application frameworks using modern C++ on embedded Linux.
• Own platform components from design through deployment and live operation across the robot fleet.
• Collaborate with consumer software teams to improve reliability, performance, and developer experience.
• Partner with autonomy and systems teams on risk assessment, failure analysis, and safety-focused software architecture.
• Translate system-level safety requirements into software behavior, interfaces, and verification strategies.
• Build instrumentation, benchmarks, logging, tracing, and fleet-level health metrics.

Skills

Multithreaded programming

Real-time systems

Software ownership

Code reviews & mentoring

Verbal/written communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Robotics / Electrical Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Embedded Linux

NVIDIA Jetson

Profiling tools

IPC mechanisms

Serialization formats (Protobuf/Cap'n Proto)

Job description

serverobotics is seeking a senior embedded software engineer to design, build, and maintain the robotics platform powering our autonomous sidewalk delivery robots. You will work with modern C++ on embedded Linux, owning platform components end-to-end and collaborating with autonomy and systems teams on safety-critical behavior.

You will lead design reviews, mentor engineers, build instrumentation and logging, and translate system requirements into robust software.