Sr. Embedded Software Engineer, Robotics Platform

The role

This person will design, develop, test, and maintain robotics middleware and application frameworks using modern C++ on embedded Linux. They will own platform components from design through deployment across the robot fleet.

What you will do

• Design, develop, test, and maintain robotics middleware and application frameworks using modern C++ on embedded Linux.
• Own significant platform components from technical design and implementation through validation, deployment, and operation.
• Partner with software teams to identify reliability, performance, and developer experience problems.
• Collaborate with Autonomy and Systems Engineering on risk assessments, failure analysis, and software architecture.
• Translate system-level safety and reliability requirements into software behavior and verification strategies.
• Develop instrumentation, benchmarks, logging, tracing, and fleet-level metrics.
• Diagnose and resolve complex system-level issues involving concurrency, scheduling, and networking.
• Evaluate technical tradeoffs and contribute to architectural decisions.
• Lead technical design and code reviews and contribute to engineering standards.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience developing production software in modern C++ (C++17 and newer).
• Experience developing and debugging systems software in embedded Linux environments.
• Strong understanding of multithreaded programming, concurrency, synchronization, interprocess communication, and systems-level software development.
• Experience designing software for latency-sensitive, safety-related, real-time, or high-reliability systems.
• Experience profiling and optimizing embedded software for performance, reliability, and resource utilization.
• Experience independently owning complex software components through design, implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills to diagnose complex issues across software and hardware boundaries.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.

Nice to have

• Experience developing middleware for robotics, autonomous vehicles, or similar complex systems.
• Experience developing and deploying production software on NVIDIA Jetson or similar embedded computing platforms.
• Knowledge of Linux internals, scheduling, resource management, device interfaces, and interprocess communication mechanisms.
• Experience with fault-tolerant architecture, failure-mode analysis, functional safety, or safety-related software development.
• Experience with distributed systems, networking, RPC frameworks, or serialization technologies such as Protocol Buffers, FlatBuffers, or Cap’n Proto.
• Experience developing telemetry, observability, health monitoring, or diagnostic capabilities for robotics or distributed device fleets.
• Experience integrating software with sensors, embedded hardware, or other robotic system components.

About the company

Serve Robotics is reimagining how things move in cities with a personable sidewalk robot. The team consists of tech industry veterans in software, hardware, and design.