Robotics Software Engineer

What You’ll Get To Do

• Develop and maintain the core software framework that composes perception, planning, locomotion, and manipulation into a deployable system on humanoid platforms.
• Own sensor calibration, perception pipelines and validation workflows for new sensor/platform revisions and configurations.
• Define and enforce subsystem interfaces, communication patterns, and data contracts for reliable, independent module development.
• Partner with research engineers to take algorithms from prototype to production-quality, tested, maintainable code.
• Identify and close reliability gaps with fault handling, performance budgets, integration/regression tests, and hardware validation.
• Build repeatable "graduation" pipelines so new capabilities land without breaking existing functionality.
• Design and run end-to-end integration tests across hardware and simulation.
• Coordinate integration milestones across teams, flag risks early, and keep the system continuously shippable.
• Profile and optimize latency, throughput, and memory on embedded platforms under real-time constraints.
• Harden the stack against real-world failure modes (sensor dropouts, comms loss, thermal throttling, degraded modes).
• Implement runtime monitoring and health checks so the robot can detect, log, and recover from faults autonomously.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent industry experience).
• Hands-on experience developing and integrating robotics software, including work on physical hardware.
• Strong C++ and Python proficiency with modern best practices; able to work in large, multi-language codebases.
• Experience training and deploying models for perception onto real-world robotics platforms.
• Strong understanding of ROS/ROS2 and experience designing, building, and deploying nodes in complex robotic systems.
• Solid understanding of real-time systems, inter-process communication, and resource-constrained embedded compute environments.
• Experience working with embedded platforms.
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work independently while managing multiple priorities.

What Will Set You Apart

• Experience with humanoid robots, legged locomotion platforms, or complex dexterous manipulation systems.
• Familiarity with motion planning, state estimation, whole-body control, or contact-rich manipulation pipelines.
• Experience working with computationally constrained platforms and designing efficient, real-time software with low overhead.
• Background in CI/CD, automated testing, and release engineering for robotics software.
• Contributions to open-source robotics frameworks or tools.
• Experience deploying robots in unstructured, real-world environments (construction, logistics, manufacturing, mining, defense).

Be Part of the Next Robotics Revolution

Solving problems at this scale takes a team as unique as the mission. We are looking for people who push beyond conventional approaches, enjoy tackling tough and ambiguous questions, and bring interdisciplinary perspective. Our success depends on exceptional AI researchers and engineers, as well as strong software developers, product designers, field deployment experts, and communicators who can turn breakthroughs into real capability.

We are headquartered in Irvine, Southern California, with teammates across the US and around the world. Join us to shape the future of embodied intelligence as part of a fun, close-knit team building systems that work in the real world.