Robot Software Engineer

About the Company

Rhoda AI is building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain networking and communication infrastructure connecting onboard systems to cloud, teleoperation, and monitoring systems
• Own data collection pipelines for sensor, telemetry, and behavioral data
• Build and maintain telemetry and observability systems for real-time visibility into robot health
• Develop internal tooling including deployment pipelines, logging infrastructure, and debugging tools
• Contribute to perception and control integration to connect sensor pipelines and onboard models
• Support bring-up and field testing of new hardware revisions
• Collaborate with ML, perception, and control engineers to ensure data quality and reliability

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in robotics software engineering, embedded systems, or a related field
• Strong software engineering fundamentals in C++, Python, or Rust
• Experience with networking, IPC, and communication protocols (e.g., gRPC, DDS, MQTT, WebSockets)
• Familiarity with cloud storage and data upload pipelines (e.g., AWS, GCP, S3, GCS)
• Experience with ROS/ROS2 or similar robotics middleware
• Ability to debug across the full stack from driver-level to application behavior
• Comfort working directly with physical hardware in fast-moving environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building telemetry and observability systems for embedded or edge platforms
• Familiarity with perception pipelines or control systems
• Background in streaming systems or low-latency data transport
• Experience with over-the-air (OTA) software updates and deployment infrastructure
• Exposure to learned perception or control models
• Prior work on early-stage hardware programs