Principal Software Engineer, Robot Software

The role

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Technical Strategy & Vision: Partner with leadership to define a 12-24 month technical roadmap. Chart a course to align, upgrade, and enhance existing systems to meet customer demands and improve internal efficiency. Identify emerging technologies that will keep the company ahead of the curve. Balance the organization’s technical debt against new feature velocity.
• System Architecture: Lead the design of complex, cross-functional systems. You will ensure that the "Robot" layer integrates seamlessly with the broader Embodied AI algorithms (e.g. driving) while maintaining safety and performance constraints.
• Engineering Excellence: Set the bar for code quality, testing rigor, and observability. You’ll lead design reviews for critical components of the stack and "unblock" teams facing deep-seated architectural debt. You will observe common challenges across disparate workstreams (e.g., latency spikes or data serialization bottlenecks) and champion centralized, reusable solutions that benefit the entire Robot Software organization.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Act as the technical bridge between Robot Software and neighboring departments like Hardware, Production Software, Simulation, Application Software, Data Platform, and DevOps to ensure hardware-software parity and efficient data flywheels. Identify dependencies and risks that live in the "seams" between projects ensuring, e.g. that the impacts from a change in the sensor drivers is proactively understood and cascaded by joint analysis with the behaviors and simulation teams.