Senior Software Engineer - Robotics (F/M/D)

The Opportunity

As a founding member of the Platform Team, you will architect and build the software backbone of the company. The platform must operate across two domains: high-performance distributed computing for AI research (training, large-scale data ingestion, RL simulation) and real-time, resource-constrained execution on physical robot hardware.

This is a greenfield opportunity where you will make foundational architectural decisions that define how the system scales from prototype to production. You will bridge research and hardware, enabling state-of-the-art models to be trained efficiently and deployed reliably in the real world.

Your Responsibilities

• Architect and build a scalable software platform unifying research workflows (training, simulation) and production systems (real-time inference, data collection)
• Bridge research and hardware by building tooling that enables seamless transition from Python-based research environments to performant C++/Rust runtimes on robots
• Optimize critical system paths, including inference latency, distributed training throughput, and resource utilization
• Establish engineering foundations including CI/CD pipelines, build systems (Bazel), and containerization (Docker)
• Design and implement fault-tolerant systems for long-running experiments and safety-critical robotic operations

Technologies

• Python
• C++ (or Rust)
• Distributed systems and microservices
• gRPC / REST APIs
• Docker
• Bazel
• CI/CD systems
• AWS / GCP / Azure
• Kubernetes (nice to have)
• Slurm (nice to have)
• ROS2 / DDS (nice to have)
• Terraform / Ansible (nice to have)
• Simulation tools (Isaac Sim, MuJoCo) (nice to have)