Clera

Principal Robotics Software Engineer

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Base Salary

$235k - $305k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Write and own critical production C++ across the robotics stack.
  • Define and maintain system-wide timing and safety contracts from perception through control.
  • Take robotics software from prototype to field releases, including packaging, deployment, quality assurance, and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
  • Mentor and grow the robotics team while continuing to contribute code as an individual contributor.
  • Debug hardware and field issues, including during regular range tests.

Requirements

  • 10 or more years of hands-on robotics software engineering experience and a record of shipping systems.
  • Recent hands-on production C++ experience on physical robotic systems.
  • Experience taking robotics software from prototype to repeatable use in field, operator, fleet, or customer settings.
  • System-level experience with timing, threading, latency, reliability, release processes, deployment, quality assurance, or hardware-in-the-loop testing.
  • Broad robotics experience across sensors, perception, tracking, control, middleware, and deployment.
  • Experience mentoring or growing a team while remaining an individual contributor.
  • Must meet applicable U.S. person requirements for export-controlled work.
  • Familiarity with sensor timestamps, time synchronization, coordinate transforms, ROS or ROS2, cameras, IMUs, encoders, or gimbal systems is valuable.
  • Defense, aerospace, safety-critical software, systems languages beyond C++, sensor fusion, or an active security clearance is valuable.

Benefits

  • Base salary is $235,000 to $305,000 annually.
  • On-site five days per week in San Francisco, California, with range days included.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.

Tech Stack

Categories

Robotics
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