Sr. Embedded Software Engineer, Robotics Platform

Team: IT

Location: Canada

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities:

• Design, develop, test, and maintain robotics middleware and application frameworks using modern C++ on embedded Linux, with a focus on reliability, maintainability, and production readiness.
• Own significant platform components throughout their full lifecycle, from technical design and implementation to validation, deployment, monitoring, and operation across a fleet of robots.
• Partner with software teams using the robotics platform to identify reliability, performance, and developer-experience challenges, then build reusable solutions that improve the overall platform.
• Collaborate with autonomy and systems engineering teams on risk assessments, failure analysis, fault-handling strategies, system architecture, and the translation of safety and reliability requirements into software behavior and verification approaches.
• Develop instrumentation, benchmarks, logging, tracing, telemetry, and fleet-level metrics to monitor software performance, reliability, resource utilization, and overall system health.
• Diagnose and resolve complex system-level problems involving concurrency, scheduling, synchronization, interprocess communication, networking, and constrained compute environments.
• Evaluate technical tradeoffs and contribute to architectural decisions that improve platform scalability, reliability, performance, and long-term maintainability.
• Lead technical design and code reviews while contributing to engineering standards, development practices, technical documentation, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers through design discussions, problem solving, code reviews, and collaborative technical work.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial experience developing production-grade software using modern C++17 or newer.
• Strong experience developing and debugging systems software in embedded Linux environments, with a solid understanding of multithreading, concurrency, synchronization, interprocess communication, and systems-level programming.
• Experience designing software for latency-sensitive, safety-related, real-time, or high-reliability systems, along with practical experience profiling and optimizing embedded software for performance and resource utilization.
• Demonstrated ability to independently own complex software components across technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing operation.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities, including the capacity to diagnose complex issues that span software, hardware, networking, and system-level boundaries.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across software, systems, hardware, autonomy, and other engineering disciplines.
• Experience with robotics middleware, autonomous vehicles, or other complex robotic systems is highly valued, as is experience deploying production software on NVIDIA Jetson or similar embedded computing platforms.
• Additional experience with Linux internals, scheduling, resource management, device interfaces, fault-tolerant architecture, functional safety, distributed systems, networking, RPC frameworks, serialization technologies, telemetry, observability, or robotic sensors and hardware integration is advantageous.

Benefits:

• Competitive Compensation: Salary range of $167,800–$204,000, with actual compensation determined by geographic location, experience, level, domain knowledge, and interview performance.
• Remote Flexibility: Remote position available across Canada, including British Columbia, Calgary, Toronto, and Vancouver.
• Full-Time Opportunity: A full-time engineering role with significant ownership over production robotics software and platform components.
• Technical Impact: Work on complex real-world robotics systems spanning embedded software, autonomy, hardware, safety, reliability, and fleet operations.
• Cross-Functional Environment: Collaborate closely with experienced engineers across software, systems, hardware, and autonomy disciplines.
• Professional Growth: Opportunities to lead technical design, influence architecture, mentor engineers, and contribute to engineering standards and development practices.
• Hands-On Robotics Exposure: The role may occasionally involve access to robotics hardware or onsite participation in integration, testing, troubleshooting, and validation activities.