Software Engineer, Onboard Platform

At Bedrock were moving AI out of the lab and into the real world. Our team includes veterans who helped launch Waymo scaled Segment to a $3.2B acquisition and grew Uber Freight to $5B in revenue. Today were deploying autonomous systems on heavy construction equipment across the country improving safety on job sites and accelerating schedules on critical infrastructure projects.

Were not here debating the future of AI. Were deploying it in the real just two years weve raised $350M and achieved the first fully autonomous excavator deployments in construction.

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.

The Onboard Infrastructure team builds the software foundation Bedrocks autonomous machines run on the layer giving Bedrock the ability to scale across multiple machines variations models and environments. Our software keeps every machine working reliably hours from the nearest engineer in harsh environments and on lossy connectivity doing real work on billion-dollar projects.

Were looking for Senior and Staff Software Engineers to architect build and own major areas of our onboard platform from the OS drivers and system services up through the runtime frameworks our autonomy stack is built on. Youll take these systems from first bring-up through reliable operation in the field keeping the platform fast secure and dependable at fleet scale.

In this role you will:

• Bring up next-generation compute and sensors as we expand to new machine types

• Develop the core system services that keep a fleet running reliably: software updates lifecycle management data logging health monitoring and connectivity

• Architect and develop the onboard runtime and middleware for execution communication configuration and observability that let autonomy teams move fast and ship to multiple machine types

• Optimize and benchmark onboard system performance across CPU GPU and memory for mixed-criticality real-time workloads

• Expand diagnostics and observability across the onboard stack enabling a small team to keep a growing fleet healthy

• Build internal tools frameworks and test infrastructure that accelerate development and validation across engineering

• Lean into AI and agents from automating development workflows to fleet analysis triage troubleshooting and more.

• Experience building and shipping embedded systems in robotics automotive drones or other high-performance embedded contexts

• Strong programming skills in a systems language such as C or Rust plus fluency in Python for scripting and analysis

• Solid foundation building software on Linux-based systems with the versatility to work up and down the stack from services and applications to performance tuning and system internals

• Comfortable developing automating and debugging across the hardware/software boundary

• Track record of leading projects driving design decisions and working effectively across hardware autonomy and platform teams

• Hands-on work with real-world sensing systems including cameras lidar GPS/GNSS IMUs radar or other fielded sensors

• Background in OTA security connectivity telemetry diagnostics or other production-hardening areas for connected fleets

• Familiarity with the NVIDIA Jetson ecosystem including optimizing ML inference and other GPU workloads on embedded compute (e.g. CUDA TensorRT)

• Experience with Rust in production or performance-critical systems

• Prior work on safety-critical systems

Our roles are often flexible. If you dont fit all the criteria or are in another location (especially one where we have an office like SF or NY) please apply anyway! Wed love to consider you.

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.

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