Staff Robotics Software Engineer – Real-Time Firmware & Control

Mytra; Brisbane (CA); On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation & equity

Fully subsidized health coverage

401(k) with employer matching

Lunch & snacks at HQ

Generous PTO & holidays

Pet insurance

Tax advisory for equity

Commuter benefits up to $150

Onsite gym & showers

Job summary

Mytra’s robotics team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to advance motion control, task execution and safety across our robotic fleet. You will own firmware development through the product lifecycle and collaborate with hardware and software teams to deliver reliable real-time embedded systems.

This on-site Brisbane, AU role emphasizes leadership, architecture, and hands-on development across the stack, with a focus on performance, reliability, and maintainability in a fast-moving robotics

Qualifications

• BS in Mechatronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
• Experience with C/C++/Rust and system level environments.
• Strong experience with Python, particularly focused on application and process level development.
• Demonstrated ability to break down complex problems into actionable incremental progress in a continuous integration development environment.
• Experience coding in concurrent and multithreaded environments.
• Understanding of electromechanical systems, kinematics, and robotics control.
• Experience with network communication technologies, including CAN, Ethernet, TCP/IP, UDP, and pub/sub frameworks like NATS.
• Understanding of how hardware changes affect robotics software and vice-versa.
• Understanding of Git and software version management.
• Strong knowledge of software design and maintainability patterns.
• Preferred experience in embedded software and/or firmware development.
• Ability to fluently interpret system data to root cause logged faults and build robust diagnostic tools.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality code across many layers of the robotics software stack.
• Implement highly performant and real time code for critical control and safety functions.
• Identify performance, maintainability, and reliability of code changes.
• Contribute to the complete life cycle of software features including feature definition, implementation, test plan, and roll out strategy.
• Assess and contribute to long-term architectural decisions as software evolves.
• Lead and manage integration of initial prototype systems including bring-up, debug, and engineering test of alpha and beta phase prototype robots.

Skills

C/C++/Rust

Python

Multithreading / Concurrency

Git

Robotics control & real-time systems

CI/CD / continuous integration

Diagnostics & root-cause analysis

System-level understanding of electome

Education

BS in Mechatronics/Electrical/Computer Engineering or equivalent

Tools

CAN

Ethernet

TCP/IP

UDP

NATS

Job description

Mytra’s robotics team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to advance motion control, task execution and safety across our robotic fleet. You will own firmware development through the product lifecycle and collaborate with hardware and software teams to deliver reliable real-time embedded systems.

This on-site Brisbane, AU role emphasizes leadership, architecture, and hands-on development across the stack, with a focus on performance, reliability, and maintainability in a fast-moving robotics