Sr. Embedded Software Engineer, Robotics Platform

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

Role overview

A senior embedded software role focused on building and maintaining the robotics platform that powers a fleet of autonomous sidewalk delivery robots. The work spans modern C++ on embedded Linux, with end-to-end ownership of platform components and close collaboration with autonomy and systems teams on safety-critical behavior.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain robotics middleware and application frameworks using modern C++ on embedded Linux.
• Own significant platform components from technical design and implementation through validation, deployment, and live operation across the robot fleet.
• Partner with consumer software teams to identify reliability, performance, and developer-experience gaps and ship reusable solutions.
• Collaborate with autonomy and systems engineering on risk assessments, failure analysis, fault-handling strategies, and software architecture.
• Translate system-level safety and reliability requirements into software behavior, interfaces, and verification strategies.
• Build instrumentation, benchmarks, logging, tracing, and fleet-level metrics that surface software health and reliability.
• Diagnose complex system-level issues spanning concurrency, scheduling, interprocess communication, networking, and constrained compute resources.
• Lead technical design and code reviews, contribute to engineering standards, and mentor other engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant 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, interprocess communication, and systems-level development.
• Background designing software for latency-sensitive, safety-related, real-time, or high-reliability systems.
• Experience profiling and optimizing embedded software for performance, reliability, and resource utilization.
• Demonstrated ability to independently own complex software components from design through deployment.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across software and hardware boundaries and clear written and verbal communication.

Nice to have

• Middleware experience for robotics, autonomous vehicles, or similarly complex systems.
• Production software deployment on NVIDIA Jetson or comparable embedded compute platforms.
• Linux internals knowledge covering scheduling, resource management, device interfaces, and IPC mechanisms.
• Exposure to fault-tolerant architecture, failure-mode analysis, or functional safety.
• Experience with distributed systems, RPC frameworks, and serialization formats such as Protocol Buffers, FlatBuffers, or Cap'n Proto.
• Telemetry, observability, or health-monitoring work for robotics or device fleets.Integrating software with sensors, embedded hardware, or other robotic system components.