Tech Lead, Software Infrastructure and Fleet Management
Mind Robotics2 months ago
Palo Alto, CA, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Architect fleet-wide OTA deployment, versioned rollouts, staged/canary releases, rollback strategies, and configuration management across heterogeneous robot hardware.
- Design and build hardware-in-the-loop test reporting, simulation-based regression testing, and pre-deployment validation gates.
- Build and evolve fleet management tooling, dashboards, and APIs for robot inventory, software and configuration versions, health state, and deployment status.
- Own the full deployment path from build artifact to a running process on a remote physical robot, including pipelines that gate on more than unit tests.
- Set technical standards and conduct deep design and code reviews across deployment, testing, and DevOps.
- Partner with engineering and research teams to build tools that increase team velocity.
- Design logging infrastructure and visualization tooling.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering skills in Python and/or Rust/C++, with experience building tooling and services.
- Experience building fleet or device management systems, including OTA updates, versioning, staged rollout, rollback, and remote configuration management.
- Hands-on experience with integration and systems testing for hardware-attached software, hardware-in-the-loop testing, simulation-based regression suites, and deployment pipelines with validation beyond unit tests.
- Experience with observability for edge or field deployments, including telemetry pipelines, structured logging, and alerting.
- Experience with containerization and edge orchestration or agent frameworks for deploying software to heterogeneous robot compute.
- A track record of making deployment and testing systems reliable and repeatable as deployed units and sites scale.
- Preferred exposure to functional safety concepts, electric vehicle OTA, industrial IoT, or similar field-reliability and fleet-management domains.
About Mind Robotics
Mind Robotics builds generalizable industrial robots and the software runtime that lets them perceive, decide, and act under hard real-time constraints. It sells robotic systems and AI-driven middleware for factory-floor tasks, working directly with manufacturers; it has publicly cited a deployment partnership with Rivian. Founded in 2025 and headquartered in Palo Alto, the privately held company focuses on dexterous, adaptive automation for complex production environments.