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Senior Software Engineer, Robotics Platform in San Francisco

Energy Jobline ZR, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199

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Job DescriptionJob Description About Our Team Chef Robotics is on a mission to accelerate the advent of intelligent machines in the physical world. As the rise of LLMs like ChatGPT has shown, AI has the potential to drive immense change. However, we believe AI’s biggest impact will be in the physical world, given industries like manufacturing, food, and transportation represent 90% of global GDP. We're starting with food, with a goal to put an intelligent robot in every commercial kitchen in the world. We have signed multiple multi-year contracts with various large food companies and we are growing fast. We're backed by investors like Kleiner Perkins, Construct, Bloomberg BETA and Promus Ventures. We have a great team, where you will be surrounded by talented engineers and tech leaders from companies like Cruise, Zoox, Google, Verb Surgical, Tesla, Nuro, Vicarious, Amazon Robotics, Strateos, Built Robotics, Facebook, Plenty, Yelp, and Microsoft. About the Role Chef is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Robotics Platform, to help us scale our fleet of robots. You will make a large impact on a small team, ensuring our robot compute, OS, middleware, and networking provide a stable and performant platform for our autonomy software and algorithms. You'll be working on everything from low-level system software to high-bandwidth sensor data logging, debugging, and performance analysis. Ideal candidates will also be interested in overall product performance and will work closely with senior robotics and perception engineers to debug, test, and release new autonomy features.In this role, you will:

Debug and fix difficult low-level systems software problems, e.g. with drivers, networking, Linux configuration.

Lead an upgrade of our autonomy software OS and middleware.

Investigate load and networking issues and increase performance of our perception and robotics algorithms.

Work with manufacturing to develop processes for provisioning robotic systems at scale.

Help integrate new robot hardware, sensors, and cameras, and monitor performance.

Contribute to overall software architecture design and standards and test and release processes.

Champion engineering excellence, ensuring high-quality, well-structured, and well-tested code.

What You Bring:

BS in computer science, robotics, or equivalent experience.

Strong experience and expertise in Linux systems, with at least 4+ years experience building complex software in a Linux environment.

Excellent software engineering fundamentals.

Experience leading and shipping complex software projects.

Understanding of network and time protocols, e.g. TCP, UDP, PTP.

Knowledge of build systems and tooling, performance optimization, and memory and network profiling.

Nice to Have:

Robotics experience.

Experience with the robotics tech stack, e.g. Linux, ROS, OpenCV, CUDA.

Experience with full-stack web engineering and infrastructure.

Experience in systems engineering or product management.

Experience with basic mechatronics and electronics.

Experience leading projects or people in a tech lead or similar capacity.

Chef is an early-stage startup where equity is a major part of the compensation package. As the company secures more capital, we will gradually increase salary and cash compensation. The starting salary will depend on seniority. In addition to salary and early-stage equity, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, commuter benefits, flexible paid time off (PTO), catered lunch, and 401(k) matching. Equal Opportunity Employer We are an equal opportunity employer and value at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of , , , , and expression, , , ancestry, status, uniform service member and veteran status, marital status, , status, protected medical condition, genetic information, , or any other protected status. Multiple studies have found that a higher percentage of women and BIPOC candidates won't apply if they don't meet every listed qualification. Chef values candidates of all backgrounds. If you find yourself excited by our mission but you don't check every box in the description, we encourage you to apply anyway!

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

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