Senior Embedded Safety-Critical Systems Engineer

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

Job summary

Bedrock Robotics Inc. is hiring Senior and Staff Software Engineers to architect, build, and own major areas of the embedded safety controller that drives our autonomous machines.

This role spans drivers, RTOS bring-up, and system integration for a mixed-criticality controller interfacing Bedrock autonomy with heavy machinery. You will work across hardware, autonomy, and platform teams to extend the platform into field devices, ensuring safe operation in harsh environments and with lossy

Qualifications

• Experience building and shipping embedded systems in robotics, automotive, drones, or other safety-critical embedded contexts.
• Strong embedded programming skills in a systems language such as 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

C++

Rust

Python

Real-time systems

Hardware/software interface

Project leadership

Education

Safety-critical embedded context

Tools

CAN

Ethernet

J1939

Job description

Bedrock Robotics Inc. is hiring Senior and Staff Software Engineers to architect, build, and own major areas of the embedded safety controller that drives our autonomous machines.

This role spans drivers, RTOS bring-up, and system integration for a mixed-criticality controller interfacing Bedrock autonomy with heavy machinery. You will work across hardware, autonomy, and platform teams to extend the platform into field devices, ensuring safe operation in harsh environments and with lossy