Software Engineer, Rhoda Platform

The role

You will build and maintain the software foundation for robots. This includes networking infrastructure, data collection pipelines, telemetry systems, and internal development tooling.

What you will do

• Build and maintain networking and communication infrastructure
• Own data collection pipelines for sensor, telemetry, and behavioral data
• Build and maintain telemetry and observability systems
• Develop internal tooling for deployment, logging, debugging, and field testing
• Productize the Rhoda Platform for vendor robotic hardware integration
• Support bring-up and field testing of new hardware revisions
• Collaborate with ML, perception, and control engineers

Required qualifications

• For experienced hires: 2+ years of experience in robotics software engineering, embedded systems, cloud software, or a closely related field
• For new graduates: solid educational background in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or related fields
• Strong software engineering fundamentals in C++, Python, or Rust
• Experience with networking, IPC, and communication protocols for hardware-software systems (e.g., gRPC, DDS, MQTT, WebSockets)
• Familiarity with cloud storage and data upload pipelines (e.g., AWS, GCP, S3, GCS)
• Experience with ROS/ROS2 or similar robotics middleware in production or research contexts
• Ability to debug across the full stack on live hardware
• Excellent engineering principles and high standard on work deliverables
• Comfort working directly with physical hardware in fast-moving, ambiguous environments

Nice to have

• Experience building telemetry and observability systems for embedded or edge platforms
• Familiarity with perception pipelines or control systems and how they interact with the broader robot stack
• Background in streaming systems or low-latency data transport for real-time robot operation
• Experience with over-the-air (OTA) software updates and deployment infrastructure for robot fleets
• Exposure to learned perception or control models and their integration into real-time robot stacks
• Prior work on early-stage hardware programs (prototype or pre-production robots)

About the company

Rhoda AI is building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. They own the full robotics stack from hardware to foundation world models.