Senior Embedded Safety-Critical Systems Engineer

Bedrock Robotics; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Bedrock Robotics is hiring senior-level engineers to architect and own embedded safety software for autonomous machines on heavy construction equipment. You will shape the foundation that lets Bedrock scale across machines, models, and environments, working with hardware, autonomy, and platform teams.

As a Senior/Staff Software Engineer, you will build deterministic, safety-critical code from drivers and RTOS up through applications, ensuring reliability in harsh field conditions and with

Qualifications

• Experience building and shipping embedded systems in robotics, automotive, drones, or other safety-critical embedded contexts.
• Strong embedded programming skills in C++ or Rust, plus fluency in Python for scripting and analysis.
• Solid foundation building software for resource constrained systems with real-time requirements.
• Comfortable developing, automating, and debugging across the hardware/software boundary.
• Track record of leading projects, driving design decisions, and working effectively across hardware, autonomy, and platform teams.

Responsibilities

• Build safety-critical software that controls the base machine and monitors the health of the Bedrock system, with strict isolation and deterministic real-time execution.
• Develop across the full embedded software stack, spanning drivers, RTOS, communication, middleware, and applications.
• Interface with and control a broad range of heavy machinery across machine types and manufacturers, and design the abstractions that keep our system flexible and portable.
• Extend the platform to the embedded devices that keep machines running in the field, like power management, sensor cleaning, and lighting, so the system can keep working through long stretches in harsh conditions.

Skills

Embedded systems

Robotics

C++

Rust

Python

Real-time systems

Leadership

Tools

CAN

Ethernet

J1939

Job description

Bedrock Robotics is hiring senior-level engineers to architect and own embedded safety software for autonomous machines on heavy construction equipment. You will shape the foundation that lets Bedrock scale across machines, models, and environments, working with hardware, autonomy, and platform teams.

As a Senior/Staff Software Engineer, you will build deterministic, safety-critical code from drivers and RTOS up through applications, ensuring reliability in harsh field conditions and with