Senior Software Engineer, Autonomy Core

About The Role

Join the Autonomy team as a Senior Software Engineer where you will architect and contribute to the core robot software platform by driving the development of critical software modules and their interfaces. You will establish a data-driven approach to system performance by building scalable telemetry and metrics infrastructure, alongside rigorous regression testing plans, to track KPIs and monitor long-term reliability. This high-impact role is essential for enabling the next phase of commercial scaling by ensuring the robot can reliably perceive, plan, and execute complex tasks within dynamic environments.

About The Work

• Drive the implementation of selected middleware solutions to optimize communication and scalability across the core software platform.
• Define, document, review, and enforce process boundaries and API contracts, driving organization-wide alignment.
• Collaborate closely across the robot software and architecture teams to solve complex, cross-functional problems and ensure robust performance on physical robot hardware.
• Own and maintain the large-scale regression pipelines to automatically measure critical autonomous behavior metrics and track key performance indicators (KPIs) across motion planning, navigation, and localization.

About You

• Demonstrated expertise in designing and implementing multi-process robot architectures and distributed systems. Proficiency with different robotics middleware solutions (e.g., ROS, DDS, custom messaging) and experience with inter-process/inter-machine communication.
• Strong experience developing and maintaining telemetry/metrics pipelines (e.g., using OpenTelemetry/Otel). Proficiency in querying and analyzing large datasets using SQL-like big data tools (e.g., Amazon Athena, Spark SQL) and time-series databases (e.g., Prometheus, InfluxDB).
• Demonstrated expertise in simulation at scale, including techniques like domain randomization and procedural content generation. Hands-on experience transitioning models/behaviors from simulation (e.g., Gazebo, MuJoCo, Isaac Sim) to real-world physical robot hardware.
• Proficiency in programming languages commonly used in robotics/testing (Python, C++).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) for scaling simulation and deployment environments.
• Deep understanding of robotics fundamentals, including kinematics, dynamics, controls, and perception.
• MS or Ph.D. in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.

Bonus Qualifications

• Familiari