Senior Software Engineer
Gradient RoboticsVisit Gradient Robotics website
Gradient Robotics builds robots for AI-infrastructure and data-center construction.
San Francisco, United States
About Gradient Robotics
San Francisco robotics company developing full-stack autonomous robotic systems for the data-center buildout, spanning hardware, controls, perception, software, and deployment.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build performance-critical software for robots and own data flow from camera frames through perception and planning to actuator feedback. You will maintain deterministic real-time control, reduce latency, build low-loss perception pipelines, and create tooling that makes controls and vision behavior observable and debuggable.
Requirements
- 5+ years building production software close to hardware
- Rust, Python, C++, operating-system, and multithreading knowledge
- Bazel, Nix, HIL testing, and CI/CD knowledge
- Linux kernel and embedded-systems experience
- Experience debugging timing and concurrency issues
- Ability to work on-site in San Francisco five days per week, with six days during crunch time if needed
Responsibilities
- Ship performance-critical code to robots
- Own end-to-end data flow across perception, planning, controls, and actuator feedback
- Maintain deterministic real-time control alongside vision inference
- Build low-latency perception data pipelines
- Reduce latency and improve reliability
- Build real-time observability and debugging tooling