Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Software Engineering (or equivalent experience) with significant professional software engineering experience.
Proven experience in a senior role, owning production software projects and influencing technical decisions across teams.
Proficiency in Python and experience with at least one compiled language (e.g., C++, Go, Rust).
Strong software architecture skills, focusing on modular, testable, maintainable systems with clean interfaces.
Experience building and operating production backend systems, including APIs, cloud infrastructure, and databases.
Familiarity with engineering practices and tools such as Git/GitHub, CI/CD, Docker, and automated testing.
Hands-on experience with AI coding tools, demonstrating good judgment regarding their limitations.
Responsibilities
Build tooling and platforms for a growing number of robots and real-world deployments, including applications, APIs, and SDKs.
Lead projects from scoping and technical design through implementation and long-term ownership.
Shape technical direction and architecture decisions through design and code reviews.
Collaborate with research, robotics, and deployment teams to translate their needs into reliable platforms and tools.
Enhance engineering practices, focusing on testing, code quality, documentation, and system reliability.
Define and promote AI-assisted development practices across the company, contributing to AI development tooling.
Benefits
Competitive compensation package.
Opportunity to join a leading robotics team with exposure to groundbreaking research.
Energetic and collaborative culture with a focus on action and community events.
Enhanced pension plan and relocation support in Zurich.
Enhanced holiday and paid leave perks in Zurich.
401(k) with company contributions in San Francisco.
Health, dental, and vision coverage with flexible plan options in San Francisco.
Open PTO policy and paid company holidays in San Francisco.
Full Job Description
The role
As a Software Engineer in Flexion's experienced infrastructure team you will build the platforms, tooling and infrastructure that power Flexion's AI stack. This is a senior role with significant scope and ownership. You will work on a range of topics, taking projects from inception to completion, with collaboration and influence across the company. The infrastructure team owns Flexion's state-of-the-art platforms, spanning in-house robotics frameworks for deployment, orchestration and networking, customer-facing applications, telemetry, SDKs, ML and data infrastructure, AI productivity tooling, and more. A core responsibility of this specific opening is to enable the growing scale and scope of our deployments by expanding our internal robot deployment tooling as well as our customer-facing tools and platforms. Key responsibilities
Build out Flexion's tooling and platforms for a fast-growing number of robots and real-world deployments, including the applications, APIs and SDKs that customers use to manage, monitor, and integrate with Flexion.
Lead projects end-to-end, from scoping and technical design through implementation, rollout, and long-term ownership.
Shape technical direction and architecture decisions across teams through design reviews and code reviews.
Partner with research, robotics, and deployment teams to understand their needs and translate them into reliable platforms and tools.
Raise the bar on engineering practices, including testing, code quality, documentation, and system reliability.
Help define and spread AI-assisted development practices across the company and contribute to Flexion's AI development tooling.
Requirements
Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Software Engineering (or equivalent practical experience) plus significant professional software engineering experience.
Experience working at a senior scope: owning production software projects end-to-end and influencing technical decisions across teams. Strong track record of delivering complex projects with significant impact.
Proficiency in Python and significant experience with at least one compiled language (e.g., C++, Go, Rust).
Strong software architecture skills: designing modular, testable, maintainable systems with clean interfaces, considering performance and scalability. Solid grasp of data structures and algorithms.
Solid experience building and operating production backend systems: APIs, cloud infrastructure and databases.
Strong engineering practices and tooling: Git/GitHub, CI/CD, Docker, automated testing, code review, etc.
Substantial hands-on experience with AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, etc.) Good judgement with respect to their limitations.
One or more of the following skills are a plus
Experience developing software for sophisticated hardware systems (e.g., robotics, AR/VR, drones, vehicles)
Understanding of networking and/or distributed systems concepts (e.g. pub/sub, message queues, distributed computing, etc.).
Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and full-stack web development.
Benefits
Competitive Compensation
Joining a leading robotics team & exposure to never-done-before research
Energetic, collaborative culture with a bias for action and regular community events
Zurich
Enhanced pension plan
Relocation & permit sponsorship
Enhanced holiday & paid leave perks
Central Zürich office with top-tier robotics testing facilities and infrastructure
San Franciso
401(k) with company contributions
Health, dental & vision coverage with the flexibility to choose your own plan
