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Destro AI is building the intelligence layer for robotics—a coordinated system that manages robots, humans, and workflows across complex real-world operations. Founded by former leaders from HAI Robotics, Dexterity, and Matic, the company has raised a seed round at one of the highest valuations for a robotics company at this stage and is already deploying in production with large enterprise operators.
You will own the software that runs MothershipOS in live customer warehouses. This is a field deployment role combining hands-on software development with on-site customer presence. You'll write and maintain production code—not just troubleshoot it—and serve as the engineering presence when systems need to be brought up, stabilized, or restored to full function.
Key responsibilities include:
**Software Development:** Write, test, and maintain the software services running MothershipOS at customer sites, including deployment tooling and diagnostic utilities. Design and build internal tools that make field deployments faster and more repeatable. Translate field learnings into production-hardening fixes and improvements in the core codebase. Maintain clear technical documentation and runbooks for consistent issue diagnosis across sites.
**Field Deployment:** Deploy and validate Destro's software stack in live warehouses, working directly with customer operations, IT, and engineering teams. Own production issues end-to-end during launch and stabilization, including off-hours incidents. Improve uptime, throughput, and reliability of deployed systems through both code and infrastructure changes.
**Systems & Infrastructure:** Build and maintain containerized services (Docker Compose) running on Destro-managed servers and edge devices. Work with cloud infrastructure (GCP) for image management, versioning, and deployment tooling. Configure and troubleshoot networking, including VLANs, DHCP, internal DNS, and certificate-based service security. Debug across the full stack: robot state faults, sensor issues, API failures, container networking, database queries, and monitoring dashboards.
**Schedule Expectations:** This is not a standard 9-to-5 role. Warehouse operations run multiple shifts; go-lives, incidents, and integrations occur outside business hours. Regular work outside standard business hours should be expected, including nights and weekends. You may be paged for production issues (robot faults, network outages, server failures) outside normal hours and are expected to respond promptly, either remotely or on-site. Extensive travel to customer sites is required, sometimes on short notice.
**Requirements:**
- 2 to 6 years of experience in systems engineering, robotics software, backend engineering, infrastructure, or field engineering, with genuine software development experience (not field support alone)
- Comfortable being paged off-hours and traveling on short notice
- Able to operate independently in ambiguous, high-pressure environments without fully specified solutions
- Calm under pressure, direct with customers, demonstrates strong ownership
**Technical Skills - Required:**
- Strong Python or C++, with ability to write maintainable, production-grade code
- Hands-on Docker/Docker Compose experience: building, deploying, debugging, versioning images
- Linux/server administration: command line, logs, processes, systemd, firewalls
- Networking fundamentals: DHCP, DNS, VLANs, static IP reservations, TLS/certificates
- Experience with APIs and communication protocols (REST, WebSockets, MQTT)
- Proficiency with Git and standard software development workflows
**Technical Skills - Strongly Preferred:**
- Experience with AMRs, warehouse automation, or fleet management
- Cloud deployment experience, ideally GCP
- Familiarity with observability tooling (Grafana, Prometheus, time-series databases)
- WMS/WES/ERP integration experience
**Technical Skills - Nice to Have:**
- Experience with robot task allocation, scheduling, or routing
- Experience with wearables, scanners, or other warehouse hardware
