Tech Lead, Fleet Deployment & Robotics Infra

Mind Robotics; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Mind Robotics is seeking a Tech Lead to own fleet deployment, testing infrastructure, and observability for field-deployed robots. You will build and harden systems that scale across many units, guiding OTA updates, versioning, and rollout strategies.

This IC-heavy role requires hands-on engineering in Python and/or Rust/C++, experience with fleet/device management, HIL testing, and CI/CD pipelines that gate deployments beyond unit tests. Join us to push reliable production robotics forward.

Qualifications

• Strong Python and/or Rust/C++ software engineering.
• Experience with fleet/device management systems and OTA updates.
• Hands-on integration and systems testing for hardware-attached software (HIL).
• Observability engineering for edge/field deployments.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines for remote robots.

Responsibilities

• Architect fleet-wide deployment: OTA updates, versioned rollouts, staged/canary release, rollback strategies, and configuration management across heterogeneous robot hardware in the field
• Design and build testing infrastructure — hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test reporting, simulation-based regression testing, and pre-deployment validation gates that catch failures before they reach a live site
• Build and evolve the fleet management platform — the tooling, dashboards, and APIs used to track robot inventory, software/config versions, health state, and deployment status across every unit and site
• Own CI/CD pipelines that gate deployment on more than unit tests, and the full path from build artifact to a running process on a physical robot at a remote site
• Set technical standards and do deep design/code review across deployment, testing, and dev ops
• Work directly with engineering and research teams to build tools and systems that increase team velocity
• Design logging infrastructure & visualization tooling

Skills

Python

Rust

C++

CI/CD

Observability

Fleet management

HIL testing

Docker

Edge orchestration

Deployment automation

Telemetry pipelines

Tools

Isaac Sim

Gazebo

MuJoCo

Job description

Mind Robotics is seeking a Tech Lead to own fleet deployment, testing infrastructure, and observability for field-deployed robots. You will build and harden systems that scale across many units, guiding OTA updates, versioning, and rollout strategies.

This IC-heavy role requires hands-on engineering in Python and/or Rust/C++, experience with fleet/device management, HIL testing, and CI/CD pipelines that gate deployments beyond unit tests. Join us to push reliable production robotics forward.