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Sr. Embedded Software Engineer, Robotics Platform

Serve Robotics· Software
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Remote$167.8k - $204kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior embedded software engineer focused on robotics platform middleware and frameworks for a fleet of sidewalk delivery robots, contributing to design, implementation, testing, and deployment of production software in embedded Linux environments.

Responsibilities

  • 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 across Serve’s robot fleet.
  • Partner with software teams using the robot platform to identify reliability, performance, and developer experience problems and deliver reusable solutions.
  • Collaborate with Autonomy and Systems Engineering on risk assessments, failure analysis, fault-handling strategies, and software architecture.
  • Translate system-level safety and reliability requirements into software behavior, interfaces, and verification strategies.
  • Develop instrumentation, benchmarks, logging, tracing, and fleet-level metrics to measure and improve software performance, reliability, and system health.
  • Diagnose and resolve complex system-level issues involving concurrency, scheduling, interprocess communication, networking, and constrained compute resources.
  • Evaluate technical tradeoffs and contribute to architectural decisions that improve scalability, maintainability, and reliability of the robotics platform.
  • Lead technical design and code reviews and contribute to engineering standards, development practices, and technical documentation.
  • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers through design discussions, problem solving, and knowledge sharing.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field, 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 with ability to diagnose complex issues across software and hardware boundaries.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across software, systems, and hardware engineering teams.

Skills

Required:Modern C++ (C++17+)Embedded LinuxMultithreading and ConcurrencySystem-level softwareSafety-critical / Real-time systemsTroubleshootingCommunication & Collaboration

Benefits

  • Compensation: $167.8K – $204K (salary range varies by location and level).
Last updated Oct 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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