Staff Software Engineer, Embedded Linux

Bedrock Robotics Inc; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Bedrock Robotics Inc is building autonomous machinery for real-world construction. We are seeking Senior and Staff Software Engineers to architect, build, and own major areas of our onboard platform, from OS and drivers to runtime frameworks and observability.

You will bring up compute and sensors, ship reliable system services, and scale the fleet across multiple machine types. You will optimize performance, expand diagnostics, and work across hardware, autonomy, and platform teams to push

Qualifications

• Experience building and shipping embedded systems in robotics, automotive, drones, or other high-performance embedded contexts.
• Strong programming skills in a systems language such as C++ or Rust, plus fluency in Python for scripting and analysis.
• Solid foundation building software on Linux-based systems, with the versatility to work up and down the stack, from services and applications to performance tuning and system internals.
• Comfortable developing, automating, and debugging across the hardware/software boundary.
• Track record of leading projects, driving design decisions, and working effectively across hardware, autonomy, and platform teams.

Responsibilities

• Bring up next-generation compute and sensors as we expand to new machine types.
• Develop the core system services that keep a fleet running reliably: software updates, lifecycle management, data logging, health monitoring, and connectivity.
• Architect and develop the onboard runtime and middleware for execution, communication, configuration, and observability that let autonomy teams move fast and ship to multiple machine types.
• Optimize and benchmark onboard system performance across CPU, GPU, and memory for mixed-criticality, real-time workloads.
• Expand diagnostics and observability across the onboard stack, enabling a small team to keep a growing fleet healthy.
• Build internal tools, frameworks, and test infrastructure that accelerate development and validation across engineering.
• Lean into AI and agents, from automating development workflows to fleet analysis, triage, troubleshooting, and more.

Skills

Embedded systems

C++ or Rust

Python scripting

Linux fundamentals

Cross-team leadership

Tools

NVIDIA Jetson

CUDA

TensorRT

OTA tooling

Job description

Join the team bringing advanced autonomy to the built world

At Bedrock, we're moving AI out of the lab and into the real world. Our team includes veterans who helped launch Waymo, scaled Segment to a $3.2B acquisition, and grew Uber Freight to $5B in revenue. Today, we\'re deploying autonomous systems on heavy construction equipment across the country, improving safety on job sites and accelerating schedules on critical infrastructure projects.

We\'re not here debating the future of AI. We\'re deploying it in the real world. In just two years, we\'ve raised $350M and achieved the first fully autonomous excavator deployments in construction.

This is where algorithms meet steel-toed boots. You\'ll work alongside construction veterans and world-class engineers to solve physical-world problems that simulations can\'t touch. If you\'re ready to do meaningful work on hard problems, we\'d love to have you join us.

The Role

The Onboard Infrastructure team builds the software foundation Bedrock's autonomous machines run on, the layer giving Bedrock the ability to scale across multiple machines, variations, models and environments. Our software keeps every machine working reliably hours from the nearest engineer, in harsh environments and on lossy connectivity, doing real work on billion-dollar projects.

We\'re looking for Senior and Staff Software Engineers to architect, build, and own major areas of our onboard platform, from the OS, drivers, and system services up through the runtime frameworks our autonomy stack is built on. You\'ll take these systems from first bring-up through reliable operation in the field, keeping the platform fast, secure, and dependable at fleet scale.

In this role, you will:

• Bring up next-generation compute and sensors as we expand to new machine types
• Develop the core system services that keep a fleet running reliably: software updates, lifecycle management, data logging, health monitoring, and connectivity
• Architect and develop the onboard runtime and middleware for execution, communication, configuration, and observability that let autonomy teams move fast and ship to multiple machine types
• Optimize and benchmark onboard system performance across CPU, GPU, and memory for mixed-criticality, real-time workloads
• Expand diagnostics and observability across the onboard stack, enabling a small team to keep a growing fleet healthy
• Build internal tools, frameworks, and test infrastructure that accelerate development and validation across engineering
• Lean into AI and agents, from automating development workflows to fleet analysis, triage, troubleshooting, and more.

Required Qualifications

• Experience building and shipping embedded systems in robotics, automotive, drones, or other high-performance embedded contexts
• Strong programming skills in a systems language such as C++ or Rust, plus fluency in Python for scripting and analysis
• Solid foundation building software on Linux-based systems, with the versatility to work up and down the stack, from services and applications to performance tuning and system internals
• Comfortable developing, automating, and debugging across the hardware/software boundary
• Track record of leading projects, driving design decisions, and working effectively across hardware, autonomy, and platform teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on work with real-world sensing systems, including cameras, lidar, GPS/GNSS, IMUs, radar, or other fielded sensors
• Background in OTA, security, connectivity, telemetry, diagnostics, or other production-hardening areas for connected fleets
• Familiarity with the NVIDIA Jetson ecosystem, including optimizing ML inference and other GPU workloads on embedded compute (e.g., CUDA, TensorRT)
• Experience with Rust in production or performance-critical systems
• Prior work on safety-critical systems

Bedrock Robotics is an Equal Opportunity Employer

We\'re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic.

Reasonable Accommodations

We want our hiring process to be accessible to everyone. If you need an accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, please let your recruiter know so we can support you.