Eka Robotics Developer Productivity Engineer at Eka Robotics owning and improving build systems and developer tooling to enhance development velocity and reliability. Responsible for Bazel build system and internal tooling.
Responsibilities
We're looking for an engineer to own and improve that development experience. You'll design, implement, and maintain our build system and developer tooling, working directly with the people who use them. Your impact will show up in faster feedback, reliable builds, easier onboarding, and fewer interruptions across the team.
Own & Evolve Build Infrastructure: Own and evolve our Bazel build system, including build rules, toolchains, dependency management, and remote caching.
Optimize Velocity & Reliability: Make builds and tests faster and more reliable across local development and CI.
Streamline Engineering Workflows: Improve everyday workflows, from setting up a development environment to debugging a failed test or packaging a training job.
Build Internal Tooling as a Product: Build tools that make common tasks straightforward and failures easy to understand.
Collaborate & Measure Impact: Work with researchers and robotics engineers to identify recurring friction, prioritize improvements, and measure whether they help.
Ensure Multi-Platform Reproducibility: Keep development environments and build outputs reproducible across Linux, macOS, and GPU-enabled containers.
Qualification
Build Systems & DevEx ExperienceProduct Mindset for Internal ToolsSystems & Build Theory ExpertisePolyglot & Systems ToolingAutonomy & OwnershipHands-on experience with BazelExperience managing C++ toolchainsBuild & CI/CDLanguagesInfrastructure & ContainerizationCompute & ML FrameworksNote
Required
Build Systems & DevEx Experience: Track record of building and maintaining build systems, developer tools, or CI infrastructure used by other engineers.
Product Mindset for Internal Tools: Ability to write clear, maintainable software and treat internal tools as products with users.
Systems & Build Theory Expertise: Deep understanding of dependency graphs, caching, reproducibility, and the tradeoffs involved in speeding up builds and tests.
Polyglot & Systems Tooling: Proficiency with Python, Linux, shell tooling, and debugging problems across language and system boundaries.
Autonomy & Ownership: Ability to take an ambiguous problem, work with its users, and carry a solution through implementation and adoption..
Preferred
Hands-on experience with Bazel
Experience managing C++ toolchains, Python packaging, GPU software dependencies, or machine learning training infrastructure.
Prior robotics or reinforcement learning experience