Senior Software Engineer, Robotics Platform

Chef Robotics is accelerating the deployment of intelligent machines in the physical world, starting with food production — the sector facing the largest labor shortage in the U.S., with 1.14M unfilled jobs today and 3.1M projected by 2030. These roles can't be offshored, making robotics essential to keeping production onshore and strengthening America's manufacturing base.Our AI-powered robots automate food prep and assembly in commercial kitchens and food manufacturing, and have already produced over 110 million meals in production — generating the world's largest proprietary dataset for deformable food manipulation. Backed by investors including Kleiner Perkins, Construct, Bloomberg Beta, and Promus Ventures, and built by a team from Cruise, Zoox, Google, Tesla, and Amazon Robotics, Chef is rapidly scaling with multiple multi-year contracts and a mission to put an intelligent robot in every commercial kitchen.About The RoleChef is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Robotics Platform, to help us scale our fleet of robots. You will make a large impact on a small team, ensuring our robot compute, OS, middleware, and networking provide a stable and performant platform for our autonomy software and algorithms. You'll be working on everything from low-level system software to high-bandwidth sensor data logging, debugging, and performance analysis. Ideal candidates will also be interested in overall product performance and will work closely with senior robotics and perception engineers to debug, test, and release new autonomy features.In this role, you will:Debug and fix difficult low-level systems software problems, e.g. with drivers, networking, Linux configurationLead an upgrade of our autonomy software OS and middlewareInvestigate load and networking issues and increase performance of our perception and robotics algorithmsWork with manufacturing to develop processes for provisioning robotic systems at scaleHelp integrate new robot hardware, sensors, and cameras, and monitor performanceContribute to overall software architecture design and standards and test and release processesChampion engineering excellence, ensuring high-quality, well-structured, and well-tested codeWhat You Bring:BS in computer science, robotics, or equivalent experienceStrong experience and expertise in Linux systems, with at least 4+ years experience building complex software in a Linux environmentExcellent software engineering fundamentalsExperience leading and shipping complex software projectsUnderstanding of network and time protocols, e.g. TCP, UDP, PTPKnowledge of build systems and tooling, performance optimization, and memory and network profilingNice to Have:Robotics experienceExperience with the robotics tech stack, e.g. Linux, ROS, OpenCV, CUDAExperience with full-stack web engineering and infrastructureExperience in systems engineering or product managementExperience with basic mechatronics and electronicsExperience leading projects or people in a tech lead or similar capacityChef Robotics is solving one of the hardest problems in AI and robotics — and we ship. Our robots are in production today, generating real data that trains the next generation of food AI. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Construct, Bloomberg Beta, and Promus Ventures, and built by a team from Cruise, Zoox, Google, Tesla, and Amazon Robotics, we're scaling fast with multiple multi-year enterprise contracts. If you want to build physical AI with real-world deployments and real impact, Chef is the place.We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.