Position Summary:You will build and own major pieces of the on-robot software stack that powers our humanoid robots in real-world industrial deployments. Working primarily in modern C++ and Python, you'll develop the systems that tie perception, control, teleoperation, and autonomy together into a robust, performant whole-from onboard services and inter-process communication to the tooling, logging, and deployment infrastructure that keeps robots healthy in the field. You'll move fluidly across the stack, equally comfortable profiling a latency-sensitive onboard service as extending the tools operators and engineers use every day.
Core Responsibilities:- On-Robot Software Development: Design, implement, and maintain core onboard services and libraries in C++ and Python, with attention to performance, reliability, and clean interfaces.
- Systems Integration: Connect perception, control, teleoperation, and autonomy components into cohesive, well-instrumented robot behaviors; own cross-cutting concerns like message transport (gRPC, WebRTC), process lifecycle, and configuration.
- Deployment & Release: Build and improve the pipelines that package, version, and deploy software to robots in the field, including Docker-based environments and CI/CD workflows.
- Observability & Data: Extend onboard logging, diagnostics, and telemetry, and the pipelines that move robot data to the cloud (AWS S3 and downstream analytics) for debugging and fleet insight.
- Developer Tooling: Improve the build system, test infrastructure, and developer workflows that keep a fast-moving robotics codebase productive and safe to change.
- Field Support: Debug issues on real robots in real deployments, and harden the stack against the messiness of production environments.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with controls, AI, teleoperation, and hardware engineers to define interfaces and land features end-to-end.
Required Qualifications:- Software Engineering Depth: Proven experience building production software systems, with strong fluency in modern C++ and Python.
- Robotics or Real-Time Systems Experience: Hands-on experience developing software for robots or other latency-sensitive, safety-conscious physical systems.
- Linux Systems Proficiency: Deep comfort developing, debugging, and profiling on Linux, including networking, processes, and system performance.
- Distributed Communication: Experience with inter-process and networked communication frameworks such as gRPC, WebRTC, DDS, or similar middleware.
- Infrastructure Fluency: Working knowledge of Docker, CI/CD systems, and cloud services (AWS preferred) as they apply to robot software delivery.
- Software Craftsmanship: Track record of writing well-tested, maintainable code and improving codebases through good architecture, code review, and tooling.
- End-to-End Ownership: Demonstrated ability to take features from design through deployment and field validation with minimal supervision.
Preferred Qualifications:- Experience with humanoid or mobile manipulation platforms.
- Familiarity with teleoperation systems, VR interfaces, or low-latency media streaming.
- Experience with robot fleet management, remote deployment, or over-the-air update systems.
- Exposure to build systems such as Bazel or CMake at scale.
- Experience with data pipelines and analytics tooling (Athena, OpenSearch, or similar).
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.
The pay range for this role is:
180,250 - 240,250 USD per year (BOS)
