Tech Lead, Robotics Fleet & Deployment Infra

Mind Robotics; Iowa; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mind Robotics is seeking a Tech Lead to own software for fleet deployment, CI/CD infrastructure, and observability for field-deployed robots. This IC-heavy role involves building deployment tooling and partnering with a DevOps engineer to scale reliable robotics software into production.

You will shape the fleet management platform, set engineering standards, and drive validation gates across hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop testing in real-world environments.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Python and/or Rust/C++ for building tooling and services.
• Experience building backend services and APIs for device fleets.
• Observability engineering for edge deployments: telemetry, logging, and alerting.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment gating beyond unit tests.
• Familiarity with containerization and edge orchestration for heterogeneous devices.

Responsibilities

• Architect fleet-wide deployment: OTA delivery, versioned rollouts, staged/canary releases, rollback strategies, and config management across heterogeneous hardware.
• Build observability for the fleet: diagnostics, monitoring, and alerting surfaces for deployment issues.
• Own the build system producing reproducible, versioned software packages for development and production deployments.
• Contribute to and interface with hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop test infra; build pre-deployment validation gates.
• Build and evolve fleet management to track inventory, software versions, health state, and deployment status across sites.
• Own CI/CD pipelines that gate deployment beyond unit tests from build to OTA creation and monitoring.
• Set technical standards and perform deep design/code reviews across deployment, testing, and DevOps.

Skills

Python/Rust/C++

Backend services

Observability

CI/CD

DevOps practices

Tools

Bazel

SCons

Buck2

Docker

Gazebo

Job description

Mind Robotics is seeking a Tech Lead to own software for fleet deployment, CI/CD infrastructure, and observability for field-deployed robots. This IC-heavy role involves building deployment tooling and partnering with a DevOps engineer to scale reliable robotics software into production.

You will shape the fleet management platform, set engineering standards, and drive validation gates across hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop testing in real-world environments.