Senior DevOps Engineer

Department: Software

Location: Mountain View

Compensation: $175K – $250K • Offers Equity

Employment Type: FullTime

At Rhoda AI, we’re building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $450M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality.

Responsibility:

• Maintain and improve our CI/CD pipeline: instrument and monitor our CI jobs, and iteratively improve on it.

• Manage and maintain infrastructure around build artifacts and dependencies storage.

• Build and improve on our cloud and GPU cluster, and create essential devops infrastructure to support our daily research and software development effort.

• Improve our MLOps training and deployment path: checkpoint registry/DB, model artifact promotion, and rollout to inference/robot endpoints.

• Improve our infrastructure observability.

• Harden security & multi-tenancy

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps / SRE / platform / infra, with ownership of production systems.

• Proficient in a programming language such as Python, C++, Rust, Go

• Strong knowledge of software engineering best practices and design patterns

• Experience with docker and containerized environments

• Experience with software build systems for cloud infrastructure and embedded systems.

• Experience with procedural CI and CD, and build artifact delivery (OTA update) system.

• Comfortable with operating in Linux environment

• Self-starter mentality — comfortable with ambiguity, able to prioritize independently, and willing to jump in wherever needed

• Effective communication skills; able to work cross-functionally in a fast-moving team

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of industrial communication protocols (EtherCAT, Modbus, gRPC, etc.)

• Experience with ML Ops

• Understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls) and security best practices for embedded IoT devices

• Knowledge with kubernetes and cloud system orchestration