Member of Technical Staff: DevOps

Location: Cambridge, MA

Department: Robot Software

Position Summary:

You will build and run the infrastructure that gets our software from a developer's laptop onto robots in the field—and keeps it running. Spanning build systems, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and robot deployment tooling, you'll make shipping software fast, repeatable, and safe for a fast-moving robotics team. This role has a strong robot-deployment emphasis: alongside traditional cloud and CI work, you'll own pieces of the pipeline that package, version, and roll out software to physical robots, and the tooling that lets the team do it with confidence.

Core Responsibilities:

• CI/CD & Build Systems: Build and maintain continuous integration and build pipelines that keep a large, fast-moving codebase testable and releasable.
• Robot Deployment: Develop and improve the tooling that packages, versions, and deploys software to robots in the field, with an emphasis on repeatability and safe rollouts.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Provision, operate, and improve cloud infrastructure supporting build, deployment, data, and backend services.
• Containerization & Environments: Build and maintain Docker-based environments that keep development, testing, and deployment consistent.
• Observability & Reliability: Add monitoring, logging, and alerting across infrastructure and deployment pipelines so problems are caught early.
• Automation: Automate the manual, error-prone steps in build, test, and release workflows to make the whole team faster.
• Collaboration: Work with robot software, fleet, and AI engineers to understand their deployment needs and build infrastructure that serves them.

Required Qualifications:

• DevOps Experience: Solid hands-on experience with CI/CD, build systems, and infrastructure automation in a production environment.
• Cloud Fluency: Working experience with a major cloud provider (AWS preferred), including compute, storage, and networking basics.
• Containerization: Practical experience with Docker and container-based workflows.
• Scripting & Automation: Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, or similar) and comfort automating complex workflows.
• CI Tooling: Experience with a CI system (GitHub Actions or similar) and building reliable pipelines.
• Linux Proficiency: Comfort operating, debugging, and automating on Linux.
• Ownership & Reliability Mindset: Ability to own infrastructure end-to-end and care about the reliability of what you ship.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience deploying software to physical devices, edge hardware, or robots (OTA updates, fleet rollout, etc.).
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• Exposure to build systems such as Bazel at scale.
• Experience with monitoring/observability stacks and telemetry pipelines.
• Interest in robotics and the particular challenges of shipping software to machines in the real world.

Walden Robotics offers a competitive total compensation program, including salary, annual cash bonus, company equity, company-subsidized insurance programs, 401(k) with company match, flexible PTO, daily lunch, and other benefits. The pay ranges noted on our posts are for salary only.

Walden Robotics is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to hello@waldenrobotics.com.

Walden Robotics participates in E-Verify. If you receive an offer of employment from Walden, you will need to go through the E-Verify process of digital verification of your employment authorization documents as provided on the Form I-9. Participation in E-Verify does not limit your right to work and verification will only be completed after you become

About the Company

At Walden Robotics, we envision a world where general-purpose robots dramatically improve the quality of life for all people—supporting us at home, at work, in factories, on farms, and beyond. To accomplish this, we are building a team of exceptional professionals who combine world-class technical skills with creative vision, grounded in humility and collaboration.