Tech Lead, Software Infrastructure and Fleet Management

Department: Software Engineering

Location: Palo Alto

Employment Type: FullTime

About Mind:

Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.

The Role:

At Mind Robotics, we're building generalized physical AI — robotic systems capable of dexterous, adaptive, and reasoning-intensive work in real-world industrial environments. Deploying robots in real factories, reliably and safely, depends on the infrastructure that ships software to them, validates it before it goes live, and tells us when something's wrong once it's out there.

We're looking for a Tech Lead to own fleet deployment, testing infrastructure, and observability for our field-deployed robots. This is an IC-heavy role: you're building and hardening these systems yourself, not just defining processes for others.

This is a role for someone who wants to own the hardest problems in getting robotics software safely and reliably into production at scale, and ship them personally.

Responsibilities:

• Architect fleet-wide deployment: OTA updates, versioned rollouts, staged/canary release, rollback strategies, and configuration management across heterogeneous robot hardware in the field

• Design and build testing infrastructure — hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test reporting, simulation-based regression testing, and pre-deployment validation gates that catch failures before they reach a live site

• Build and evolve the fleet management platform — the tooling, dashboards, and APIs used to track robot inventory, software/config versions, health state, and deployment status across every unit and site

• Own CI/CD pipelines that gate deployment on more than unit tests, and the full path from build artifact to a running process on a physical robot at a remote site

• Set technical standards and do deep design/code review across deployment, testing, and dev ops

• Work directly with engineering and research teams to build tools and systems that increase team velocity

• Design logging infrastructure & visualization tooling

Requirements:

• Strong software engineering in Python and/or Rust/C++, with experience building tooling and services

• Experience with fleet/device management systems: OTA update mechanisms, versioning schemes, staged rollout and rollback design, and remote configuration management across many physical devices

• Hands-on experience with integration and systems testing for hardware-attached software — hardware-in-the-loop testing, simulation-based regression suites (Isaac Sim, Gazebo, MuJoCo, or similar), and CI/CD pipelines that gate on more than unit tests

• Observability engineering for edge/field deployments: telemetry pipelines, structured logging, and alerting

• Containerization and edge orchestration (Docker, and edge-appropriate orchestration/agent frameworks) for packaging and deploying software onto heterogeneous robot compute

• Track record of taking deployment/testing systems from ad hoc to reliable, repeatable process as the number of deployed units and sites grows

Nice to Have:

• Exposure to functional safety concepts relevant to physical systems

• Background in electric vehicle OTA, industrial IoT, or other domains with similar field-reliability and fleet-management constraints

• Experience scaling deployment/testing infrastructure