Staff Robotics Architect — Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

InvestedintheMission; 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 autonomy and vehicle software across a growing fleet of AUVs. You will tie together onboard software, GNC, sensing, and mission autonomy, maintaining robustness as the fleet scales.

You will mentor engineers and drive safe, reliable operations in demanding ocean campaigns. The role spans cross-cutting disciplines, hands-on work with real vehicles, and leadership in architectural calls that shape a

Qualifications

• 8+ years building robotics or autonomous-systems software in production environments.
• Staff-level technical leadership across subsystems or teams.
• Deep experience architecting robust, modular vehicle software.
• Strong C++ and/or Python fundamentals with ROS experience.
• Experience with fault detection, health monitoring, and safe-state behaviors.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of the vehicle software system and drive it toward a modular design across onboard software, GNC/state estimation, sensing, and mission autonomy.
• Lead cross-disciplinary robotics problems end to end, anticipating future missions and reducing cost of change.
• Set and raise standards for how the 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.
• Maintain fault management and health end-to-end (FDIR) and safe-state behaviors.
• Share in the on-call rotation and build runbooks, telemetry, and escalation paths.
• Design for fleet-scale: OTA updates, versioning, and rollback.
• Ensure data quality with reliable on-board capture and sensor time-synchronization.
• Mentor engineers and align robotics, hardware, and software teams.
• Champion AI adoption within the robotics workflow.

Skills

Robotics software architecture

C++

Python

GNC/state estimation

Sensor fusion

Autonomy systems

Mentoring/leadership

Excellent communication

Tools

ROS/ROS 2

Job description

Bedrock Ocean Exploration seeks a Staff Robotics Engineer to own the architecture of autonomy and vehicle software across a growing fleet of AUVs. You will tie together onboard software, GNC, sensing, and mission autonomy, maintaining robustness as the fleet scales.

You will mentor engineers and drive safe, reliable operations in demanding ocean campaigns. The role spans cross-cutting disciplines, hands-on work with real vehicles, and leadership in architectural calls that shape a