Senior Robotics Middleware Engineer — ROS 2, Zenoh & Jetson

ALTEN Technology USA; Woburn (MA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

ALTEN Technology USA is seeking a Senior Robotics Middleware Engineer to evaluate, prototype, and optimize next-generation communication middleware for advanced robotic systems. The role focuses on ROS 2 middleware, DDS internals, and zero-copy messaging on NVIDIA Jetson-class platforms, with benchmarking-driven decisions.

The ideal candidate will lead build-versus-adopt analyses for Zenoh, integrate as an ROS 2 RMW layer, and collaborate across robotics and software teams to deploy scalable

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Deep hands-on experience with ROS 2 middleware architecture, RMW implementations, DDS internals and transport mechanisms.
• Experience with Zenoh or comparable publish/subscribe frameworks such as eCAL, iceoryx, Cyclone DDS, Fast DDS.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and prototype Zenoh integration as an ROS 2 RMW layer with quantitative benchmarking.
• Design zero-copy and shared-memory messaging on NVIDIA Jetson-based platforms to maximize throughput.
• Analyze and optimize messaging pipelines through memory layout and resource utilization improvements.
• Develop benchmarking frameworks to measure throughput and overall system performance.
• Collaborate with robotics, software, and systems teams; document findings and best practices.

Skills

ROS 2 middleware architecture

RMW implementations

DDS internals

Zenoh

C++ development

Shared-memory IPC

Zero-copy messaging

Profiling and benchmarking

Embedded Linux

Jetson platforms

Real-time OS

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/Robotics/EE

Tools

eCAL

iceoryx

Cyclone DDS

Fast DDS

Job description

ALTEN Technology USA is seeking a Senior Robotics Middleware Engineer to evaluate, prototype, and optimize next-generation communication middleware for advanced robotic systems. The role focuses on ROS 2 middleware, DDS internals, and zero-copy messaging on NVIDIA Jetson-class platforms, with benchmarking-driven decisions.

The ideal candidate will lead build-versus-adopt analyses for Zenoh, integrate as an ROS 2 RMW layer, and collaborate across robotics and software teams to deploy scalable