Robotics Software Engineer

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Aurelius Systems The Robotics Software Engineer at Aurelius Systems writes production C++ code for real hardware focusing on sensor ingestion, tracking, control, and autonomy. The role requires deep understanding of threading, concurrency, and performance profiling in real-time systems.

Responsibilities

We need a Robotics Software Engineer who writes fast, correct C++ that runs on real hardware. You’ll work on the Archimedes stack alongside our Lead Software Engineer, taking raw sensor data and turning it into tracking, control and autonomy that has to work in real time. Performance and accuracy matter more than anything. Your scope grows as fast as you do; our Lead went from Founding Robotics Engineer to Lead in 12 months.
What You’ll Own:
Production C++ across the stack: sensor ingestion, tracking, control and autonomy
Working directly with drivers and raw sensor data, not pre-packaged inputs
Threading, process architecture and performance on the paths you own
Timing and latency analysis, and making the fixes it points to
Python tooling for testing, analysis and the range
Debugging on hardware at weekly field tests

Qualification

Comfort below the abstraction layerYou implementEvidence you learn fastWhere you probably come fromWe want to talk ifNot a fit ifROS2 (a good signalRust or other systems languagesSensor integration and calibrationEducationHow You OperateExtreme bias for action

Required

2+ years writing production C++ that runs on real hardware or real-time systems
Comfort below the abstraction layer: threading, concurrency, memory, performance profiling
You implement, not just design. You’ve shipped code you wrote
Evidence you learn fast: you got effective in a new domain in months, not years
Where you probably come from: We’re domain agnostic. Robotics, AV, drones, aerospace, F1 or automotive, maritime, embedded systems, compilers, or low-level C++ game engine and 3D simulation work all fit. A robotics degree isn’t required; the robotics is learnable on the job.
We want to talk if: You’ve written C++ where latency or timing actually mattered and you measured it. Bonus if your projects touch motion planning, dynamics, trajectory optimization, or state estimation.
Not a fit if: You’re web, backend or full stack; your C++ is light and your real work is in Python; you’ve never had a full-time role; or you design systems but don’t implement them.

Preferred

ROS2 (a good signal, though we've moved past it)
Rust or other systems languages
Sensor integration and calibration
Education: BS, MS or PhD in CS, EE, Robotics or equivalent. Track record matters more than degree.
How You Operate:
Extreme bias for action. You'd rather build a prototype tomorrow than model it for a month
You characterize your own systems before the field does
Comfortable with ambiguity and fast iteration in a startup environment

Benefits

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Company

Aurelius Systems

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