Senior Staff Software Engineer

Job Summary

A company is looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Robot Platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the architecture for the robot software stack, including component boundaries and communication protocols
• Take ownership of core frameworks and services essential for robot features, such as behavior coordination and state machine frameworks
• Drive performance and reliability improvements across the on-robot software stack and lead internal developer tooling strategies

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in high-performance, real-time, or embedded software engineering, preferably in robotics
• Expertise in defining large-scale software architectures and ownership of mission-critical frameworks
• Mastery of modern C++ and proficiency in systems programming on Linux
• Experience in designing low-latency, reliable distributed systems with strict timing requirements
• Proven ability to mentor and provide architectural guidance to senior engineers