about 5 hours ago
Santa Clara, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$205k - $235k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, and maintain production embedded software in C++.
- Develop firmware, device drivers, hardware interfaces, diagnostics, and fault-handling mechanisms.
- Own software from requirements through integration, verification, release, and field support.
- Build reliable time-critical systems that address timing constraints, concurrency, resource limitations, edge cases, and hardware failures.
- Collaborate with Hardware, Systems, Controls, Safety, and Test teams to define and validate safe robot behavior.
- Lead root-cause investigations and improve architecture, testing, code quality, documentation, and release practices.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the embedded software team.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience developing embedded or firmware software for complex hardware systems.
- Strong recent hands-on experience programming in C++.
- Experience with microcontrollers or systems-on-chip, RTOS or embedded operating systems, device drivers, peripherals, and hardware bring-up.
- Strong knowledge of interrupts, memory management, communication protocols, timing, concurrency, and embedded debugging.
- Experience delivering software across the full development lifecycle.
- Demonstrated technical leadership through design ownership, mentorship, or engineering process improvements.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and a collaborative, team-oriented mindset.
- Preferred background in robotics, autonomous systems, automotive, aerospace, medical devices, industrial automation, or other high-reliability systems.
- Preferred familiarity with functional safety standards or methods including IEC 61508, ISO 26262, ISO 13849, FMEA, FTA, HARA, or STPA.
- Preferred experience with embedded Linux, QNX, AUTOSAR, FreeRTOS, Zephyr, or similar environments.
- Preferred experience integrating sensors, actuators, motor controls, or distributed compute systems.
- Preferred experience with hardware-in-the-loop testing, CI/CD, diagnostics, field reliability, or incident investigation.
- U.S. work authorization is required, and occasional travel is expected.
Benefits
- Equity and comprehensive benefits.
- Onsite work at the Santa Clara, California headquarters.
- Relocation stipend for candidates living more than 50 miles away.
- Occasional travel is required.
About Cobot
We're building a new kind of robotics company. One without egos. Driven by empathy. With collaboration at its core. Our mission is to build a new robotic future. A future where robots are a trusted extension of your surroundings. They work, adapt, and react around you. Not the other way around.