# Software Engineer, Robotics

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** Austin, TX, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Embedded Engineering
**Salary:** $269k – $317k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** ROS, C++, Python, Go, slam, gazebo, isaac sim
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Build and ship production software for data center robotics including task planning, fleet coordination, autonomy behaviors, and operational tooling with remote monitoring and diagnostics. Requires experience shipping robot/autonomous systems software with ROS on real hardware, plus strong integration and remote failure engineering skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build the software behind data center robotics: task planning, fleet coordination, and integration with company systems.
- Ship the autonomy glue: perception outputs, navigation stacks, and task logic composed into reliable behavior.
- Own the operational tooling: monitoring, teleoperation fallback, and diagnostics for robots at remote sites.
- Integrate robotics data into the platform: missions, exceptions, and outcomes queryable like everything else.

## Requirements
- Shipped software for robots or autonomous systems in production.
- Worked with ROS or equivalent middleware on real hardware.
- Engineer for remote failure: recovery, fallback, and observability built in.
- Integrated robot systems with enterprise or facility software.
- Debug hardware-software boundaries without a lab bench.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Navigation and SLAM.
- Fleet orchestration.
- C++, Python, or Go.
- Simulation (Gazebo, Isaac).

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