Top Robotics Software Engineer Jobs in San Francisco, CA

The Senior Technical Program Manager will lead software programs for autonomous systems, managing timelines, cross-functional teams, and driving successful software delivery.

Build internal production software for research and operations teams, starting with annotation tooling and expanding into researcher planning workflows, dataset browsing, evaluation dashboards, and operational tracking. Own requirements, prioritization, specifications, implementation, deployment, adoption, and iteration. Develop reliable frontend interfaces, backend APIs, data models, dashboards, and cloud services supporting workflows involving people, AI models, and physical operations.

Develop and optimize AI training pipelines, collaborate with researchers, ensure reliability and performance of training systems, and integrate advanced algorithms.

Designs, develops, tests, and maintains complex, scalable software systems. Contributes to architecture, distributed systems, cloud-based solutions, technical projects, troubleshooting, automated testing, and continuous integration. Collaborates with product, design, architecture, and cross-functional teams while mentoring junior engineers and supporting technical decision-making. Evaluates new technologies and drives improvements in software quality, reliability, performance, and development efficiency.

Lead and scale a multidisciplinary software organization spanning autonomous robotic vehicles, web-based solar plant tools, and AI agents. Own software architecture, roadmap, product delivery, hiring, and engineering leadership. Guide robotics fleet software, telemetry and data infrastructure, AI systems, cloud and edge platforms, and design, build, and operations products. Partner with hardware, commercial, and project operations teams to deliver reliable software supporting rapid growth.

Build and maintain the software that moves embodied AI models from training to production, including data infrastructure, services, pipelines, APIs, deployment systems, and internal platforms. Work across team boundaries on the highest-priority technical problems and deliver software to production robots within days or weeks. The role requires exceptional software engineering, strong judgment, clear communication, resilience, and comfort with ambiguity. Robotics experience is welcome but not required.

Build and maintain the software engineering backbone of Genesis-World, an open-source multi-physics robotics simulation platform. Responsibilities include scalable testing for JIT-compiled systems, deterministic simulation replay, autodiff integration, scene editing, plugin architecture, actuation, local time stepping, event systems, serialization, telemetry, performance improvements, and legacy refactoring. The role also involves code reviews, issue triage, contributor support, and collaboration with compiler and physics teams across GPU and operating-system platforms.

Build polished, high-performance React/TypeScript web applications and end-to-end features using FastAPI and Postgres. Lead frontend architecture, state management, and UX for data-dense scientific workflows. Collaborate with scientists, robotics, and AI teams, leverage LLMs to accelerate prototyping, ensure testable, secure code, and mentor junior engineers while shipping production-ready tooling for laboratory automation and imagery workflows.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll lead the development of motion planning services, mentor other engineers, and drive impactful technical projects in robotics.

Build end-to-end full-stack features for cloud and factory-floor edge applications. Implement offline-capable, low-latency UIs and backend services, design APIs, write tests, troubleshoot production issues, and collaborate on shared libraries and developer tooling to support factory operators and supervisors.