Sr. Robotic Software Engineer

The role

You will write production C++ across tracking, control, and autonomy for the Archimedes robotics stack. You will own features end to end and champion QA and CI/CD practices for fielded software.

What you will do

• Hands-on C++ development across the stack
• Threading, process structure, performance and timing analysis
• QA practices and test coverage
• CI/CD and deployment hygiene for robotics and hardware-in-the-loop
• Automated tests and tooling
• Code review
• Cross-functional work with controls, embedded and EE

Required qualifications

• 4+ years writing production software with real shipped systems
• Strong production C++
• Real-time and performance chops: concurrency, profiling, latency and timing analysis
• Experience building or operating CI/CD for robotics, hardware-in-the-loop or other hardware-facing systems
• A genuine ownership mentality toward quality

Nice to have

• ROS2
• Rust or other systems languages
• Motion planning, trajectory optimization, state estimation or sensor fusion
• Defense or safety-critical software release experience
• Built test automation frameworks for robotics or hardware-in-the-loop

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 and real ownership over your work

Before you apply

• Requires access to export-controlled information or items that require U.S. Person status (U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents, or certain protected classes of asylees and refugees)

About the company

Aurelius Systems is a VC backed defense tech startup building autonomous, edge deployed directed energy systems for counter-UAS. They build laser weapons to shoot down drones.