Senior Software Engineer, Robotics Platform
Senior Software Engineer, Robotics Platform
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26-06-2025
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Job Description
About Our Team
Chef Robotics is on a mission to accelerate the advent of intelligent machines in the physical world. As the rise of LLMs like ChatGPT has shown AI has the potential to drive immense change. However we believe AIs biggest impact will be in the physical world given industries like manufacturing food and transportation represent 90% of global GDP. Were starting with food with a goal to put an intelligent robot in every commercial kitchen in the world. We have signed multiple multi-year contracts with various large food companies and we are growing fast. Were backed by investors like Kleiner Perkins Construct Bloomberg BETA and Promus Ventures. We have a great team where you will be surrounded by talented engineers and tech leaders from companies like Cruise Zoox Google Verb Surgical Tesla Nuro Vicarious Amazon Robotics Strateos Built Robotics Facebook Plenty Yelp and Microsoft.
About the Role
Chef is looking for a Senior Software Engineer Robotics Platform to help us scale our fleet of robots. You will make a large impact on a small team ensuring our robot compute OS middleware and networking provide a stable and performant platform for our autonomy software and algorithms. Youll be working on everything from low-level system software to high-bandwidth sensor data logging debugging and performance analysis. Ideal candidates will also be interested in overall product performance and will work closely with senior robotics and perception engineers to debug test and release new autonomy features.
In this role you will:
- Debug and fix difficult low-level systems software problems e.g. with drivers networking Linux configuration.
- Lead an upgrade of our autonomy software OS and middleware.
- Investigate load and networking issues and increase performance of our perception and robotics algorithms.
- Work with manufacturing to develop processes for provisioning robotic systems at scale.
- Help integrate new robot hardware sensors and cameras and monitor performance.
- Contribute to overall software architecture design and standards and test and release processes.
- Champion engineering excellence ensuring high-quality well-structured and well-tested code.
What You Bring:
- BS in computer science robotics or equivalent experience.
- Strong experience and expertise in Linux systems with at least 4 years experience building complex software in a Linux environment.
- Excellent software engineering fundamentals.
- Experience leading and shipping complex software projects.
- Understanding of network and time protocols e.g. TCP UDP PTP.
- Knowledge of build systems and tooling performance optimization and memory and network profiling.
Nice to Have:
- Robotics experience.
- Experience with the robotics tech stack e.g. Linux ROS OpenCV CUDA.
- Experience with full-stack web engineering and infrastructure.
- Experience in systems engineering or product management.
- Experience with basic mechatronics and electronics.
- Experience leading projects or people in a tech lead or similar capacity.
$150000 - $250000 a year
Chef is an early-stage startup where equity is a major part of the compensation package. As the company secures more capital we will gradually increase salary and cash compensation. The starting salary will depend on seniority.
In addition to salary and early-stage equity we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical dental and vision insurance commuter benefits flexible paid time off (PTO) catered lunch and 401(k) matching.
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color sex gender identity and expression sexual orientation national origin ancestry citizen status uniform service member and veteran status marital status age pregnancy status protected medical condition genetic information disability or any other protected status.
Multiple studies have found that a higher percentage of women and BIPOC candidates wont apply if they dont meet every listed qualification. Chef values candidates of all backgrounds. If you find yourself excited by our mission but you dont check every box in the description we encourage you to apply anyway!
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
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