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Senior Software Engineer, Robotics Platform

Chef Robotics· Engineering – Platform
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San Francisco, CA$160k - $240kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer, Robotics Platform responsible for designing and building the next-generation robotics platform, spanning compute, OS, middleware, and networking, and enabling forward-deployed models across robot fleets. On-site in San Francisco, full-time, joining a greenfield, high-ownership team.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build our next-generation robotics platform — the foundation layer our robotics stack and forward-deployed models run on, spanning compute, OS, middleware, and networking — taking the lessons from the platform in production today into a clean-sheet design.
  • Build the infrastructure and frameworks that carry a robot across its whole software lifecycle — provisioning a new instance so it joins the fleet, then keeping its software updated from there on — working with manufacturing to do this at scale.
  • Lead an upgrade of our autonomy software OS and middleware.
  • Help integrate new robot hardware, sensors, and cameras, and monitor performance.
  • Investigate, debug and fix difficult low-level systems software problems and performance, e.g. with drivers, networking, Linux configuration.

Qualifications

  • Strong experience and expertise in Linux systems — building complex software in a Linux environment.
  • Strong systems programming in C, C++, or Rust (Python a plus).
  • Excellent software engineering fundamentals.
  • Experience leading and shipping complex software projects.
  • Experience deploying and managing software across networked edge devices (robot fleets, embedded systems) and/or with ROS 2 middleware — the DDS-based publish/subscribe (topics) layer that connects a robot's software components.

Skills

Required:Linux systemsSystems programmingSoftware engineering fundamentalsLeadership / project shipping

Benefits

  • medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • commuter benefits
  • flexible paid time off (PTO)
  • catered lunch
  • 401(k) matching
  • early-stage equity as part of compensation
Last updated Jul 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Chef Robotics

AI-enabled robots for the food industry

Chef Robotics provides the industry’s first flexible labor equivalent, helping food manufacturers increase throughput, reduce food giveaway, and improve consistency.

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