Founding Middleware Lead
Hybrid (Mountain View, CA / Boston, MA)$145k - $180kFull-timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
Founding middleware engineering role focused on backend design for open source robot middleware, emphasizing performance, developer experience, and extensibility. Founding team member with ownership mentality and mentorship responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- Work on messaging standards for zero-shot, deterministic robot visualization and development
- Develop an open source robot middleware to implement this standard
- Ensure 100% backwards compatibility with several different versions of ROS/ROS2 (dropping robustness guarantees as necessary)
- Publish and help maintain GitHub repositories, documentation and blogs for the standards and middleware
- Work closely with the visualization and hardware testing teams to ensure the final product is tightly integrated
- Make key architecture and product decisions to ensure extensibility
- Mentor and lead teams of future hires
Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in robotics
- Proficiency in Rust, Python and C++
- Proficiency in ROS
- Familiarity with TCP/IP and UDP, communication protocols, message passing paradigms (pub/sub/query)
- Familiarity with inter-process communication and multithreading
- Strong software systems design skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related engineering field
Skills
Required:RustPythonC++ROSTCP/IP and UDPInter-process communication
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Cerulion
Open source operating system for robots
Cerulion is an open source operating system for robots built by 2 MIT robotics PhDs. Companies like Amazon Robotics and Boston Dynamics AI Institute are using us to develop faster and ship more reliable robots than with ROS. With up to 1000x improvements in communications performance over state of the art, Cerulion is enabling the next generation of embodied AI.