Member of Technical Staff – Engineer, DevOps
Cambridge, MA - USA
Job Summary
Position Summary:
You will build and run the infrastructure that gets our software from a developers laptop onto robots in the fieldand keeps it running. Spanning build systems CI/CD cloud infrastructure and robot deployment tooling youll make shipping software fast repeatable and safe for a fast-moving robotics team. This role has a strong robot-deployment emphasis: alongside traditional cloud and CI work youll own pieces of the pipeline that package version and roll out software to physical robots and the tooling that lets the team do it with confidence.
Core Responsibilities:
- CI/CD & Build Systems: Build and maintain continuous integration and build pipelines that keep a large fast-moving codebase testable and releasable.
- Robot Deployment: Develop and improve the tooling that packages versions and deploys software to robots in the field with an emphasis on repeatability and safe rollouts.
- Cloud Infrastructure: Provision operate and improve cloud infrastructure supporting build deployment data and backend services.
- Containerization & Environments: Build and maintain Docker-based environments that keep development testing and deployment consistent.
- Observability & Reliability: Add monitoring logging and alerting across infrastructure and deployment pipelines so problems are caught early.
- Automation: Automate the manual error-prone steps in build test and release workflows to make the whole team faster.
- Collaboration: Work with robot software fleet and AI engineers to understand their deployment needs and build infrastructure that serves them.
Required Qualifications:
- DevOps Experience: Solid hands-on experience with CI/CD build systems and infrastructure automation in a production environment.
- Cloud Fluency: Working experience with a major cloud provider (AWS preferred) including compute storage and networking basics.
- Containerization: Practical experience with Docker and container-based workflows.
- Scripting & Automation: Strong scripting skills (Python Bash or similar) and comfort automating complex workflows.
- CI Tooling: Experience with a CI system (GitHub Actions or similar) and building reliable pipelines.
- Linux Proficiency: Comfort operating debugging and automating on Linux.
- Ownership & Reliability Mindset: Ability to own infrastructure end-to-end and care about the reliability of what you ship.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience deploying software to physical devices edge hardware or robots (OTA updates fleet rollout etc.).
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Exposure to build systems such as Bazel at scale.
- Experience with monitoring/observability stacks and telemetry pipelines.
- Interest in robotics and the particular challenges of shipping software to machines in the real world.
Walden Robotics offers a competitive total compensation program including salary annual cash bonus company equity company-subsidized insurance programs 401(k) with company match flexible PTO daily lunch and other benefits. The pay ranges noted on our posts are for salary only.
Walden Robotics is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process please send a request to .
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About Company
At Walden Robotics, we envision a world where general-purpose robots dramatically improve the quality of life for all people—supporting us at home, at work, in factories, on farms, and beyond. To accomplish this, we are building a team of exceptional professionals who combine world-cl ... View more