Staff Embedded Robotics Software Engineer

Cobot; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 205,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation stipend

Equity

Job summary

Cobot, based in Santa Clara, CA, is seeking a Staff Embedded Software Engineer to build production embedded software powering our robots. You will develop firmware, device drivers, and time-critical systems in C++ and collaborate with hardware, controls, safety and test teams.

This hands-on leadership role involves mentoring engineers, owning software across the lifecycle, and contributing to reliability and safety. Relocation stipend offered for candidates outside 50 miles.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in embedded or firmware for complex hardware systems.
• Strong C++ programming experience.
• Experience with microcontrollers or systems-on-chip, RTOS, device drivers, peripherals, and hardware bring-up.
• Knowledge of interrupts, memory management, timing, concurrency, and embedded debugging.
• Experience delivering software across the full development lifecycle.
• Demonstrated technical leadership via design ownership, mentorship, or engineering process improvements.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and maintain production embedded software using C++.
• Develop firmware, device drivers, hardware interfaces, diagnostics, and fault-handling mechanisms.
• Own software from requirements through integration, verification, release, and field support.
• Build reliable, time-critical systems that account for timing constraints, concurrency, resource limitations, edge cases, and hardware failures.
• Partner with engineering teams to define and validate safe and trustworthy robot behavior.
• Lead root-cause investigations and drive improvements in architecture, testing, code quality, documentation, and release practices.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the embedded software team.

Skills

C++

Embedded systems

Firmware

Leadership

Communication

Travel flexibility

Tools

RTOS

embedded Linux

QNX

AUTOSAR

FreeRTOS

Zephyr

Job description

Cobot, based in Santa Clara, CA, is seeking a Staff Embedded Software Engineer to build production embedded software powering our robots. You will develop firmware, device drivers, and time-critical systems in C++ and collaborate with hardware, controls, safety and test teams.

This hands-on leadership role involves mentoring engineers, owning software across the lifecycle, and contributing to reliability and safety. Relocation stipend offered for candidates outside 50 miles.