Lead Robotics Software Systems Engineer
Fresh Consulting1 day ago
Bellevue, WA, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Act as the technical point of contact for clients, provide project updates, address technical concerns, and interface between clients and delivery teams.
- Lead software architecture across embedded firmware, edge compute, robotics middleware, connectivity, cloud services, autonomy, application logic, device management, and data services.
- Define system decomposition, subsystem interfaces, requirements, specifications, performance metrics, and fleet and data architecture.
- Establish OTA update, telemetry, remote diagnostics, observability, CI/CD, simulation-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, versioning, and staged rollout strategies.
- Plan and oversee system-level testing, validation, troubleshooting, integration, and performance verification across hardware and software boundaries.
- Partner with project managers to develop schedules, resource plans, budgets, estimates, and risk mitigation plans.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and mentor engineers while collaborating with hardware, electrical, mechanical, design, strategy, and delivery teams.
- Advise on conventional, model-based, and learned approaches for robotics systems, including considerations for safety certification and field reliability.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience developing software for products that ship, including significant individual-contributor and subject-matter-expert experience.
- 3+ years of leadership experience in software architecture or system design for connected hardware, robotics, or embedded products.
- Demonstrated depth across embedded or edge software, robotics middleware, and cloud or backend services.
- Strong proficiency in C++ and Python, with the ability to evaluate team designs and code.
- Experience with ROS or ROS 2 and autonomy-stack architecture, including perception, planning, and control interactions.
- Experience with connected-device and fleet architecture, OTA updates, telemetry pipelines, and remote diagnostics.
- Proficiency with Git workflows, containerization, CI/CD, automated testing, system architecture, integration, and validation.
- Experience delivering multiple large-scale industrial, enterprise, or consumer-facing products on schedule and budget.
- Strong client-facing communication, leadership, problem-solving, and technical tradeoff communication skills.
- Proficiency with industry-standard project management tools and methodologies.
- Preferred qualifications include consulting or agency experience, Product Management or Product Ownership experience, applied AI in robotics, simulation and sim-to-real workflows, real-time or deterministic systems, functional safety and regulatory frameworks, cloud and IoT services, NVIDIA Jetson, and long-term system serviceability.
About Fresh Consulting
Fresh Consulting is a strategy, design, software, and hardware engineering consultancy that builds digital products, robotics, and connected systems for businesses. It delivers end-to-end services—UX/UI, brand identity, web/mobile and embedded development, and systems engineering—via integrated project teams. The company is privately held and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, supporting initiatives that link humans, software, and devices from early strategy through delivery.