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Rhoda AI is building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots with a full robotics stack spanning high-performance hardware, robot systems, infrastructure, and foundation world models. The company has raised over $450M and is investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up.
As a Software Engineer on the Rhoda Platform team, you will build and maintain the broad software foundation that keeps robots running. Your responsibilities span the full onboard stack, from networking and communication infrastructure to perception and control integration, data collection pipelines, and developer tooling.
Key responsibilities include:
- Building and maintaining networking and communication infrastructure connecting onboard robot systems to each other, to the cloud, and to teleoperation and monitoring systems
- Owning data collection pipelines that capture sensor, telemetry, and behavioral data from robots and reliably upload to cloud storage for model training
- Building and maintaining telemetry and observability systems providing real-time visibility into robot health, system state, and field performance
- Developing internal tooling that accelerates robot software development: deployment pipelines, logging infrastructure, debugging tools, and field testing utilities
- Productizing the Rhoda Platform to enable efficient integration with vendor robotic hardware platforms
- Supporting bring-up and field testing of new hardware revisions, debugging issues across the full onboard software stack
- Collaborating closely with ML, perception, and control engineers to ensure onboard systems meet data quality and reliability requirements
Your work serves as the connective tissue of the robot—the networking, monitoring, data, and tooling infrastructure you build directly determines how fast the team can develop, debug, deploy, and improve robots in the field. You will have high ownership in a small, fast-moving team where your contributions shape development velocity and reliability.
REQUIREMENTS:
- For experienced hires: 2+ years of experience in robotics software engineering, embedded systems, cloud software, or closely related field
- For new graduates: solid educational background in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or related fields
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in C++, Python, or Rust
- Experience with networking, IPC, and communication protocols for hardware-software systems (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 in production or research contexts
- Ability to debug across the full stack—from driver-level issues to application behavior to failures in distributed systems, on live hardware
- Excellent engineering principles and high standards on work deliverables
- Comfort working directly with physical hardware in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
NICE TO HAVE:
- Experience building telemetry and observability systems for embedded or edge platforms
- Familiarity with perception pipelines or control systems and their interaction with the broader robot stack
- Background in streaming systems or low-latency data transport for real-time robot operation
- Experience with over-the-air (OTA) software updates and deployment infrastructure for robot fleets
- Exposure to learned perception or control models and their integration into real-time robot stacks
- Prior work on early-stage hardware programs (prototype or pre-production robots)
