Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Robotics Platform

Milpitas, CAfull timeOn Site

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$165k–$265k

H1B: yes

Roboforce The Senior / Staff Software Engineer at RoboForce develops software foundations for AI-powered robotics, spanning interfaces, runtime systems, fleet services, and developer tools. The role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining software that connects robot capabilities with users and systems.

Responsibilities

Depending on your experience and agreed ownership, your work may include:
Software Architecture & Interfaces: Design and implement shared libraries and clear contracts for commands, state, execution and compatibility across robot capabilities, along with reference clients, examples and documentation that let other engineers use them.
Robot Systems & Runtime: Build reliable computing and runtime foundations, including target builds, configuration, startup, readiness, hardware integration and recovery.
Fleet & Data Services: Develop services for robot health, telemetry, incident evidence, recording access and software delivery visibility across unreliable networks.
Developer Workflows: Create tools and infrastructure that make integration, deployment, diagnosis and validation more repeatable and efficient.
End-to-End Engineering: Take a substantial workstream from design and implementation through integration, deployment, investigation and improvement.
Verification & Reliability: Use tests, traces and operational evidence to understand behavior and validate changes, including AI-assisted implementation.
Technical Collaboration: Work across component boundaries, communicate trade-offs and help other engineers build on your work. At Staff level, lead cross-team architecture, migration and adoption.

Qualification

EducationSoftware EngineeringRelevant DepthDelivered SystemsSystems ReasoningCollaboration & AdaptabilityLevel of OwnershipBonus QualificationsRoboticsEmbedded computing

Required

Education: BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Software Engineering: Strong production programming, design and debugging skills in languages relevant to your area, such as C++, Python, Go or comparable languages.
Relevant Depth: Substantial experience in at least one of shared software interfaces, Linux/embedded systems, backend/distributed services, connected-device platforms or developer infrastructure.
Delivered Systems: Experience shipping and maintaining software used by other engineers or users, with clear ownership of implementation and results.
Systems Reasoning: Ability to reason about state, asynchronous execution, failures, interfaces and meaningful verification.
Collaboration & Adaptability: Ability to work across disciplines, clarify unfamiliar assumptions and learn new systems through practical engineering.
Level of Ownership: Senior candidates should demonstrate independent ownership of substantial workstreams. Staff candidates should also demonstrate architectural impact across components and owners, hands-on delivery and successful adoption.
Requires 5 days/week in-office collaboration with the teams.
Bonus Qualifications
Experience in any of the following is valuable; no candidate is expected to cover every area:
Robotics, autonomy or other hardware-integrated products, including ROS 2 or comparable middleware.
Embedded computing, target toolchains, runtime lifecycle or on-device deployment and recovery.

Benefits

Dental
Vision
401(k)
Equity/RSU

Company

Roboforce

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