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Droyd

Lead Software Engineer

Droyd, San Francisco, California, United States

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About the team Droyd builds autonomous robotic systems that take on repetitive manual work in real environments. Our robots operate under tight latency, reliability, and hardware constraints. Software sits at the center of everything we ship.

Our software team builds the systems that connect models to motors, sensors to decisions, and fleets to operators. This code runs on real robots, in production.

About the role As a Backend Software Engineer at Droyd, you’ll own core parts of the software stack that power our six-degree-of-freedom robotic arms. You’ll build systems that support learning, inference, control, and fleet operations.

You’ll work in person with a small, senior team across robotics, AI, and hardware. Your work will ship directly to deployed robots.

This role is based in Burlingame, CA. We’re an in-person company. We build faster that way.

In this role, you’ll

Architect, design, implement, and test backend systems for AI models running on edge devices and GPUs

Build and maintain tooling for observability, fleet management, calibration, and system reliability

Develop and optimize low-latency streaming and video processing pipelines

Own integrations with external robotic systems, including ROS2 nodes, SDKs, and hardware control interfaces

Support deployment to real hardware and debug production issues in the field

We’re looking for someone who

Has experience working with hardware interfaces like UART, I2C, CAN, EtherCAT, or similar protocols

Has strong knowledge of Linux systems, networking, and process management

Is comfortable working in large codebases and performance-sensitive environments

Can take ownership of complex systems end to end

Nice to have

Rust experience, including embedded HALs such as Embassy

Experience with RTOS or modern C++ for embedded or real-time systemsFamiliarity with GStreamer or DeepStream for multithreaded video pipelines

Experience with WebRTC or other real-time transport technologies

About Droyd Droyd builds autonomous robotic systems to automate manual work for enterprises. We design the hardware, write the control and software stack, and deploy fleets of robots that operate in real production environments.

If we do this right, robots stop being demos and start being infrastructure.

Join us and help build systems that ship.

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