Staff Robotics Architect – Autonomous Underwater Fleet

Bedrock Ocean Exploration; United States; Remote; USD 190,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Bedrock Ocean Exploration seeks a Staff Robotics Engineer to own the architecture of the autonomous underwater vehicle software stack, tying together GNC, sensing, and mission autonomy to keep fleets running reliably on long campaigns.

You will lead cross‑discipline teams, set coding and testing standards, and champion safe-state behaviors and OTA deployment while expanding capabilities for continuous, around-the-clock ocean campaigns.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in robotics or autonomous-systems software.
• 5-7 years in a commercial, production robotics environment shipping at scale.
• Staff-level technical leadership across subsystems or teams.
• Robust, modular architecture for vehicle software that scales.
• Strong C++ and/or Python with ROS/ROS2 on real hardware.
• Depth in GNC, state estimation, sensor fusion, or mission autonomy.
• Track record of fault detection and recovery (FDIR) and health monitoring.
• Experience standardizing and safely deploying software across a fleet with OTA updates.
• Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of the vehicle software system and drive it toward a modular design across subsystems.
• Lead the hardest cross-disciplinary robotics problems end to end.
• Set and raise standards for how the robotics team builds, tests, and validates vehicle software.
• Drive rigorous testing across simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and field trials.
• Improve autonomy and vehicle behaviors for long, continuous missions.
• Own fault management and vehicle health end to end (FDIR, safe-state).
• Share in the on-call rotation and build runbooks, telemetry, escalation paths.
• Design for fleet scale: OTA deployment with versioning and rollback.
• Mentor engineers and drive technical alignment across teams.

Skills

Robotics leadership

Vehicle software architecture

C++ / Python

ROS/ROS2

GNC & estimation

FDIR & health monitoring

Fleet software deployment

Mentoring & alignment

On-call readiness

Communication skills

Job description

Bedrock Ocean Exploration seeks a Staff Robotics Engineer to own the architecture of the autonomous underwater vehicle software stack, tying together GNC, sensing, and mission autonomy to keep fleets running reliably on long campaigns.

You will lead cross‑discipline teams, set coding and testing standards, and champion safe-state behaviors and OTA deployment while expanding capabilities for continuous, around-the-clock ocean campaigns.