About the Role
Destro AI is seeking a senior engineer to unify disparate services into a production-grade platform. This role will shape the company's software architecture and establish version control, release, and deployment processes. The ideal candidate will have experience in robotics software development and a proven ability to refactor live code and lead a team.
Responsibilities
- Bring separate services into one coherent platform with clear service boundaries, shared data contracts, and consistent interfaces.
- Design for scale: multi-site, multi-tenant, and multi-vendor robot fleets.
- Eliminate duplicated logic, one-off scripts, and per-site special cases.
- Own the technical roadmap for incremental architecture evolution without downtime.
- Establish real version control discipline: branching strategy, code review standards, semantic versioning, release branches, and change tracking.
- Build a repeatable, automated path from commit to running on customer hardware.
- Implement over-the-air update push across cloud and on-site edge compute.
- Guarantee accurate tracking of deployed software versions.
- Stand up CI and meaningful automated test coverage, including simulation and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
- Build structured logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting across the deployed fleet.
- Harden the integration surface with customer WMS, WES, and ERP systems.
- Establish on-call, incident response, runbooks, and postmortem practice.
- Own uptime, performance, and stability of the platform in production.
- Define and implement engineering best practices across the software organization.
- Lead cross-functionally with robotics, computer vision, deployment, and product to sequence work and resolve technical tradeoffs.
- Mentor engineers and raise the bar on hiring.
- Grow into leading the software team as headcount scales.
Requirements
- 8+ years building software, with a substantial portion of it at robotics companies (AMR/AGV, warehouse automation, manipulation, autonomous vehicles, drones, or comparable fielded robotic systems).
- Shipped software that ran on real robots, in real customer environments, at real scale.
- Personally taken a system from pilot-grade to multi-site production.
- Consolidated fragmented services into a unified platform on a live system without stopping delivery.
- Introduced engineering process to a team that didn't have any, and gotten people to adopt it.
- Pragmatic about technical debt, sequencing fixes by risk.
- Comfortable owning production, including on-call and live incidents.
- Able to operate independently in ambiguous, fast-moving startup environments.
- Strong communicator who can align engineers, deployment teams, and customers on the same technical plan.
- Desire to build and lead a team while staying close to the code.
- High ownership mindset with a strong bias for execution.
Skills
- Deep Python
- Strong systems fundamentals
- C++, Go, or Rust (a plus)
- ROS/ROS2
- Direct experience with multi-vendor or heterogeneous robot fleets
- Fleet management, teleoperation, or robot observability tooling
- Distributed systems
- Message-based architectures
- Failure modes of intermittently connected edge devices
- Git at scale (branching models, monorepo or multi-repo tradeoffs, release management)
- Containerization
- Infrastructure-as-code
- Modern CI/CD
- OTA update systems
- Fleet device management
- Linux/server environments
- Networking
- Cloud systems
- Edge deployments
- Prior integration work against WMS/WES platforms (Manhattan, Blue Yonder, Körber, SAP EWM) or with 3PL operators (a plus)
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 8+ years
About the Company
- Destro AI is building the intelligence layer for robotics — the system that tells robots and humans what to do across complex real-world operations.
- Founded by former leaders from HAI Robotics, Dexterity, and Matic.
- Destro's core is MothershipOS — a centralized brain that coordinates robots, humans, and workflows in real time, bringing global intelligence across the entire operation.
- Recently closed Seed round at one of the highest valuations for a robotics company at this stage.
- Already working with large enterprise operators to deploy real systems in production environments.
