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About the Role
We need a Senior Robotics Software Engineer to write production code across perception, control, and autonomy on the Archimedes robotics stack. You will contribute meaningfully to the stack, champion QA and CI/CD practices, and ensure fielded software reliability.
Responsibilities
- Hands-on development across the robotics software stack from perception, control, and autonomy
- Championing QA practices and test coverage, embedding quality into team processes
- CI/CD infrastructure and deployment hygiene for robotics and hardware-in-the-loop
- Writing and maintaining automated tests and tooling to catch failures
- Code review and raising the quality bar across the robotics SWE team
- Cross-functional work across perception, controls, embedded, and EE
Requirements
- 5+ years of robotics software engineering with shipped systems
- Strong hands-on development skills, writing production code for real hardware
- ROS2 experience and the judgment to know when not to use it
- Experience building or operating CI/CD for robotics or hardware-in-the-loop systems
- Genuine ownership mentality toward quality and test discipline
- Experience taking software from 'works on my machine' to 'works in the field'
- Must be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, legal permanent resident, or certain protected classes of asylees and refugees)
Skills
- Robotics software engineering
- Perception
- Control
- Autonomy
- QA practices
- CI/CD
- ROS2
- Hardware-in-the-loop systems
- Test discipline
- Real-time systems
- Sensor fusion
- Perception background
- Defense software release
- Safety-critical software release
- Test automation frameworks
Location
- San Francisco
- Detroit
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- BS, MS, or PhD in CS, Robotics, EE, or equivalent
Benefits
- Competitive salary + equity
- United Health Care medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible 18 days PTO + 5 sick days
- Travel to field test events and range days
- Covered daily lunches and office snacks + drinks
- E-bike / scooter stipend (Up to $500)
- Direct access to leadership
- Real ownership over your work
About the Company
- Aurelius Systems is a VC backed defense tech startup building autonomous, edge deployed directed energy systems for counter-UAS.
- We build laser weapons to shoot down drones.
- We are a small team of engineers, former US military operators, and subject matter experts scaling America's directed energy dominance.
- We aim to build the first cost effective, reliable and robust laser weapon system.
- We operate with an extreme bias for action, focusing on doing the work without excuses.
- We have a San Francisco lab, a Detroit manufacturing hub, and field test weekly on our own 400-acre private range.