Build and maintain software foundations for industrial robots, including shared interfaces, on-robot runtimes, fleet services, developer tools, deployment workflows, and reliability systems. Own substantial workstreams from design through deployment and improvement, collaborate across software and hardware teams, and at Staff level lead cross-team architecture and adoption.
Why RoboForce
RoboForce is an AI robotics company developing Physical AI–powered Robo-Labor for dull, dirty, and dangerous work. The company’s robots are engineered for demanding industrial environments, with a focus on real-world deployment and scalability.
We are hiring Senior / Staff Software Engineers to build the foundations that make our robots useful, reliable and maintainable. The work spans software interfaces, on-robot systems, fleet services and engineering tools, connecting capabilities on the robot with the people and systems that use them.
We welcome depth in one or more of these areas. Your initial ownership will reflect your strengths and the team's priorities, with opportunities to contribute across adjacent areas as our systems evolve. You will stay close to implementation, work with engineers across software and hardware, and see your decisions operate on real robots.
Responsibilities
Depending on your experience and agreed ownership, your work may include:
- Software Architecture & Interfaces: Design and implement shared libraries and clear contracts for commands, state, execution and compatibility across robot capabilities, along with reference clients, examples and documentation that let other engineers use them.
- Robot Systems & Runtime: Build reliable computing and runtime foundations, including target builds, configuration, startup, readiness, hardware integration and recovery.
- Fleet & Data Services: Develop services for robot health, telemetry, incident evidence, recording access and software delivery visibility across unreliable networks.
- Developer Workflows: Create tools and infrastructure that make integration, deployment, diagnosis and validation more repeatable and efficient.
- End-to-End Engineering: Take a substantial workstream from design and implementation through integration, deployment, investigation and improvement.
- Verification & Reliability: Use tests, traces and operational evidence to understand behavior and validate changes, including AI-assisted implementation.
- Technical Collaboration: Work across component boundaries, communicate trade-offs and help other engineers build on your work. At Staff level, lead cross-team architecture, migration and adoption.
Requirements
- Education: BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Software Engineering: Strong production programming, design and debugging skills in languages relevant to your area, such as C++, Python, Go or comparable languages.
- Relevant Depth: Substantial experience in at least one of shared software interfaces, Linux/embedded systems, backend/distributed services, connected-device platforms or developer infrastructure.
- Delivered Systems: Experience shipping and maintaining software used by other engineers or users, with clear ownership of implementation and results.
- Systems Reasoning: Ability to reason about state, asynchronous execution, failures, interfaces and meaningful verification.
- Collaboration & Adaptability: Ability to work across disciplines, clarify unfamiliar assumptions and learn new systems through practical engineering.
- Level of Ownership: Senior candidates should demonstrate independent ownership of substantial workstreams. Staff candidates should also demonstrate architectural impact across components and owners, hands-on delivery and successful adoption.
- Requires 5 days/week in-office collaboration with the teams.
Bonus Qualifications
Experience in any of the following is valuable; no candidate is expected to cover every area:
- Robotics, autonomy or other hardware-integrated products, including ROS 2 or comparable middleware.
- Embedded computing, target toolchains, runtime lifecycle or on-device deployment and recovery.
- Stateful APIs, reusable client libraries, software compatibility or interface migration.
- Device telemetry, reliable data delivery, observability, recording pipelines or fleet operations.
- CI, hardware automation, developer tools or reproducible release workflows.
Benefits
- Competitive stock options/equity programs.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) plan.
- Visa sponsorship and green card support for qualified candidates.
- Lunches and dinners, a fully stocked kitchen, and regular team-building events.
Compensation: Salary $165,000–$265,000 USD + Bonus + Equity
The base salary range above represents the expected compensation for this full-time U.S. position. Final compensation will be determined based on role scope, level, location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training, and may fall outside the listed range in exceptional cases.
RoboForce Milpitas, California, USA Office
Milpitas, California , United States, 95035
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