Senior Software Engineer, Robotics Platform
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
2 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Chef Robotics is accelerating the deployment of intelligent machines in the physical world starting with food productiona sector facing the largest labor shortage in the U.S. with 1.14M unfilled jobs today and 3.1M projected by 2030. These roles cannot be offshored making robotics essential to keeping production onshore and strengthening Americas manufacturing base. Backed by investors like Kleiner Perkins Construct Bloomberg Beta and Promus Ventures and supported by a world-class team from companies such as Cruise Zoox Google Tesla and Amazon Robotics Chef is rapidly scaling with multiple multi-year contracts and a mission to put an intelligent robot in every commercial kitchen.
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.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- AWS
- Data Structures
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
