Hardware Engineer, Autonomy Platforms

At Bedrock were moving AI out of the lab and onto real job sites. Our team includes veterans who helped launch Waymo scaled Segment to a $3.2B acquisition and grew Uber Freight to $5B in revenue. We retrofit the heavy equipment contractors already own starting with excavators so experienced crews can safely take on more projects and deliver more of the critical infrastructure our society needs.

In August 2026 Bedrock-equipped excavators began doing fully autonomous paid work on live commercial job sites. Weve more than doubled our customer base since 2025 and our machines now work with contractors across the South Midwest and Mid-Atlantic

In October 2026 we raised a $600M Series C co-led by CapitalG and Emergence Capital bringing our total funding to nearly $1B. Were using it to put more autonomous machines to work build the field and operations teams behind every deployment and expand into new machine types and job-site tasks.

This is where algorithms meet steel-toed boots. Youll work alongside construction veterans and world-class engineers to solve physical-world problems that simulations cant touch. If youre ready to do meaningful work on hard problems wed love to have you join us.

As a Hardware Engineer on the Autonomy Platforms team you will architect source build and bring to life the key hardware systems that enable autonomy on our machines. You will work with a wide range of engineering teams within Bedrock (product commercial perception behavior controls platform integration supply chain and more) to drive consensus on critical HW system functionality and decomposition. You will work alongside other HW engineers to bring about these components ensuring the platform meets our high performance bars and works reliably in the harsh environments that we deploy into.

The candidate will be responsible for designing characterizing integrating and validating bedrock autonomy hardware.

• Help define system and component level HW architecture for autonomous machines

• Establish and lead relationships and programs with external vendors to deliver critical components and systems for our autonomous HW platforms

• Work with other HW platform engineers to bring together a cohesive and high performance system that is flexible and modular

• Work with safety team to establish requirements and performance metrics for components and systems

• Write reusable high quality data analysis and test automation software (Python and/or C/C/Rust)

Required:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Electrical Engineering Mechatronics or related field

• Hands on experience with design and testing of autonomy HW such as sensing compute HMI connectivity and machine control interfaces

• Strong foundational knowledge in traditional HW engineering subjects such as electrical design high and low speed communication protocols power electronics bring-up and testing and deployment of hardware systems in rugged outdoor environments

• Experience leading large HW development programs from ideation through proto EVT DVT and production stages

• Experience with some of the following:

  • High performance/power edge compute including multi-CPU platforms (x86 ARM) with significant GPU resources including experience around power and cooling (air/liquid)

  • Common autonomous sensing technologies including lidar (spinning flash) camera (visible SWIR NIR etc) radar RTK GNSS and IMU

  • Remote operator stations including ergonomic human interfaces low latency information display and safety critical design

  • HMI deployment in rugged (high shock/vibe and temp) environments including screens and/or tablets

  • Packaging and integration strategies for high performance HW systems in rugged environments including high shock/vibe wide temp ranges IP and solar loading

  • High speed signaling including GSML multi gigabit ethernet RF

• Proficiency in compiled (C/C/Rust) shell (linux bash) or runtime (Python) languages with ability to prototype and debug software components of HW systems as well as run tests data collection analysis and reporting

Preferred:

• 6 years of relevant industry experience preferred

• Heavy machinery hydraulic systems including electronic control

• High performance embedded compute in particular Nvidia Jetson lineup

• High and low speed communication protocols (GMSL FPDlink PCIe multi GigE A2B CAN UART SPI RS232/422/485 etc)

• Experience with system engineering requirements definition and V&V

• High power LED lighting for scene illumination

• Experience with common standards for HW deployment in construction

  • ISO26262 ISO16750 SAE J1455 etc

• Familiarity with large commercial construction equipment basic machine electrical and mechanical HW and interface

Bedrock Robotics is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Were committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin ancestry age disability veteran status genetic information or any other protected characteristic.

Reasonable Accommodations

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