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About the Role
Join a defense technology team developing autonomous robotic systems for countering unmanned aircraft. As the most senior individual contributor on the robotics team, you will write critical production code and help ensure the system performs reliably on real hardware.
Responsibilities
- Write and own production C++ across the robotics software stack.
- Establish timing and safety contracts across perception, tracking, control, and autonomy.
- Turn prototype software into repeatable field releases through packaging, deployment, CI/CD, quality assurance, and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
- Mentor and grow the robotics team while remaining hands-on with code.
- Debug hardware and field issues, including during regular range tests.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of hands-on robotics software engineering experience, with shipped systems and recent coding experience.
- Production C++ experience on physical robotic systems, with breadth across sensors, perception, tracking, control, middleware, and deployment.
- Experience taking a robotics stack from prototype to repeatable use in field, operator, fleet, or customer settings.
- Experience owning system-wide timing, threading, and latency, and building release, CI/CD, quality assurance, or hardware-in-the-loop processes.
- Experience mentoring or growing a team while continuing to code as an individual contributor.
- Familiarity with ROS or ROS2, cameras, IMUs, encoders, or gimbal systems is useful.
- Defense, aerospace, or safety-critical software experience and an active security clearance are also valued.
- Must be a U.S. Person due to export control requirements.
Skills
- C++
- Robotics software stack
- Perception
- Tracking
- Control
- Autonomy
- Packaging
- Deployment
- CI/CD
- Quality assurance
- Hardware-in-the-loop testing
- Debugging
- ROS
- ROS2
- Cameras
- IMUs
- Encoders
- Gimbal systems
Location
- San Francisco, California
Work Type
- On-site
- Range days included
Experience Level
- Senior individual contributor
- At least 10 years of hands-on robotics software engineering experience
Salary/Compensations
- $235,000 to $305,000
About the Company
- Defense technology team developing autonomous robotic systems for countering unmanned aircraft.