Robotics Software Engineer III - Infrastructure

Job Description

The Robotics Software Engineer III - Infrastructure is responsible for designing and enabling the foundational infrastructure that supports the full lifecycle of autonomous robotic systems, from source code to deployment and field observability. This position provides high leverage across perception, planning, controls, simulation, and safety teams by delivering durable platforms, shared workflows, and guardrails that allow product teams to move quickly without compromising reliability, traceability, or compliance. The Robotics Software Engineer III - Infrastructure sits at the intersection of robotics software, DevOps, simulation, and MLOps. This position focuses on building scalable systems and standards rather than acting as a first responder for day-to-day operational issues. Success is measured by reduced friction for autonomy engineers, improved release confidence, and infrastructure becoming a competitive advantage rather than a bottleneck.

Responsibilities

• Enable traceability for safety-critical systems, including the ability to identify what software, model, and configuration ran on a specific vehicle at a given time.
• Provide infrastructure and tooling to improve correlation between simulation results and real-world vehicle behavior in collaboration with simulation and vehicle integration teams.
• Mentor engineers on platform usage, infrastructure best practices, and scalable system design.
• Build and maintain reliable pipelines for deploying software and models to development vehicles, test fleets, and production systems.
• Enable large-scale Software-in-the-Loop (SIL), Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL), and regression simulation workflows.
• Collaborate closely with Functional Safety Engineering to ensure infrastructure aligns with compliance and certification needs.
• Enable dataset versioning, lineage tracking, training reproducibility, and model promotion workflows.
• Standardize build systems and CI/CD pipelines across robotics software, embedded systems, and simulation environments.
• Support rapid diagnosis of field issues and feedback loops into development, testing, and simulation environments.
• Support scenario-based testing, coverage tracking, and regression analysis.
• Make pragmatic trade-offs between development velocity, system reliability, and safety requirements.
• Partner with perception and autonomy teams to enable safe and performant model deployment, while domain teams retain ownership of model design and performance outcomes.
• Establish platform standards, reference architectures, and best practices used across multiple product teams.
• Support functional safety requirements by enabling reproducible builds, preserving validation evidence, and supporting audits and certification activities (e.g., ISO 3691-4, ISO 13849).
• Design and evolve shared infrastructure supporting the lifecycle of machine learning models used in autonomy systems.
• Design and enable shared infrastructure supporting the end-to-end robotics software lifecycle: Source, Build, Test, Simulate, Deploy, Monitor.
• Influence technical direction across teams without direct people management responsibility.
• Enable vehicle-level observability through logging, metrics, and distributed tracing.
• Integrate simulation results into CI pipelines with clear pass/fail criteria and reporting.
• Act as a force multiplier for autonomy engineers by reducing duplicated tooling and infrastructure maintenance overhead.
• Define standards for model packaging, deployment to vehicles, runtime monitoring, and rollback mechanisms.
• Define and manage artifact versioning strategies for software binaries, firmware, configuration, calibration data, maps, and vehicle-specific parameters.
• Other duties and projects, as assigned.
  
  

Requirements

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field, required
• Master's Degree or equivalent industry experience in robotics, autonomous systems, or distributed systems, preferred
  
  

Experience

• 5 years of experience in software infrastructure, platform engineering, or DevOps position(s).
  
  

Computer Skills

• Hands-on experience with Linux-based systems and containerized environments, required
• Experience working with CI/CD systems, build tooling, and artifact management solutions, required
• Familiar with Bitbucket and Jira automation, preferred
• Practical experience with MLOps, including dataset and model versioning and deployment pipelines, preferred
• Familiar with robotics middleware such as ROS or ROS2, preferred
• Experience supporting complex, distributed, real-time, or hardware-integrated systems, required
• Proven ability to design and maintain systems used by multiple teams and products, preferred
  
  

Additional Requirements

• Exposure to simulation-heavy environments or systems that integrate tightly with physical hardware.
• Experience in robotics, autonomous systems, or embedded software development, preferred
• Experience with SIL and HIL testing methodologies, preferred
• Experience working in safety-critical or regulated environments, preferred
• Understanding of vehicle systems, sensors, and real-world deployment constraints, preferred
  
  

Other Details

Work Hours

• Generally, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm with occasional irregular hours depending on workload.
  
  

Travel Requirements

• Occasional (25%-50%) Travel may be required to support field testing and collaboration.
  
  

Compensation

• This is a salary position paid biweekly.
  
  

About Us

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