Senior Robotics Systems Engineer: Field Deployments & Autonomy

Cssmerge; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 176,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Annual bonus

Medical, Dental, Vision

Job summary

Pronto AI in San Francisco is seeking a Robotics Engineer to drive system-level debugging and end-to-end feature delivery for autonomous trucks. You will develop, test, and deploy autonomy features, and act as a technical lead during deployments, owning bring-up, triage, and cross-team coordination in mission-critical environments.

The role requires 7+ years of software development, strong skills in Python/C++/C#, and hands-on robotics deployments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong programming skills in at least one modern language (Python, C++, Java, or C#).
• Proven robotics engineering experience with system-level ownership.
• Ability to design and debug software systems with diagnostics that scale.

Responsibilities

• Develop, integrate, and validate autonomy features for real-world autonomous vehicle operation.
• Own system-level debugging across sensors, compute, networking, and software stacks.
• Lead deployments: Bring-up plans, interface definitions, risk identification, and fixes coordination.
• Support field deployments at customer sites with hands-on on-vehicle debugging.
• Bring up and integrate new truck platforms with hardware teams.
• Collaborate across hardware, operations, safety, and product to ensure safe autonomy.

Skills

Software development

Python

C++/C#

System-level debugging

Diagnostics & logging

Tools

Linux

Git

CI/CD

Simulation/test harnesses

Job description

Pronto AI in San Francisco is seeking a Robotics Engineer to drive system-level debugging and end-to-end feature delivery for autonomous trucks. You will develop, test, and deploy autonomy features, and act as a technical lead during deployments, owning bring-up, triage, and cross-team coordination in mission-critical environments.

The role requires 7+ years of software development, strong skills in Python/C++/C#, and hands-on robotics deployments.