Lead Robotics Platform Engineer

The role

The Lead Robotics Platform Engineer will own the cell platform product, including firmware, electronic hardware, and fleet infrastructure. You will act as a player-coach, defining the roadmap and hiring engineers while being hands-on with the platform.

What you will do

• Own the cell platform roadmap, releases, and relationships with dependent teams
• Act as a player-coach with hands-on-keyboard work
• Define the roadmap and hire engineers to form the team
• Manage the layer between firmware and application software
• Oversee sensors, computes, networking, OS, BSP layer, middleware, and fleet infrastructure

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of industry experience at AV, humanoid, AMR, or drone companies, owning the layer between BSP and autonomy
• Experience building and shipping platforms on fleets of robots deployed into production for real customers
• Embedded Linux/BSP depth: kernel, drivers, device trees, boot, and BSP management
• Platform bring-up on NVIDIA Jetson and x86 targets
• Sensor integration and evaluation including GMSL2 and PoE cameras
• Configuration and validation of real-time Linux kernels, CPU isolation, IRQ affinity, and RT scheduling policies
• Middleware fluency in ROS 2 and DDS/RMW internals, QoS, node composition, and zero-copy transport
• Data transport architecture reasoning on single-compute and distributed-compute architectures
• Hardware evaluation and qualification including sourcing and owning a BOM
• Containerization and image engineering
• Release engineering including CI/CD pipelines and artifact/registry management
• Fleet/device management including OTA and provisioning at fleet scale

Benefits

• Base salary
• Equity
• Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
• Generous PTO

About the company

Foundry Robotics is building an AI-native robotics manufacturing company focused on deploying advanced assembly and production capability. They are building robots that build robots.