About the Role
The role involves developing and maintaining scalable routing software that enables autonomous robots to navigate complex city environments safely and efficiently while adapting to dynamic conditions.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement routing algorithms for autonomous mobile robots
- Optimize pathfinding logic for real-time performance in urban settings
- Collaborate with robotics and infrastructure teams to integrate routing solutions
- Enhance system reliability under variable environmental conditions
- Develop software to handle traffic rules, pedestrian interactions, and obstacles
- Maintain and improve existing routing codebase
- Support deployment of routing updates across robot fleet
- Work with geospatial data to refine navigation accuracy
- Troubleshoot and resolve routing-related incidents
- Ensure compliance with safety and operational standards
- Contribute to testing frameworks for routing logic validation
- Monitor system performance and identify optimization opportunities
- Participate in code reviews and architectural discussions
- Document technical designs and implementation details
- Assist in defining routing requirements for new service areas
- Integrate third-party mapping and traffic data sources
- Improve robot behavior at intersections and complex road layouts
- Support simulation environments for routing algorithm testing
- Collaborate on incident post-mortems involving navigation failures
- Implement fail-safe mechanisms for unexpected routing scenarios
- Work with machine learning models to predict route efficiency
- Ensure low-latency decision-making in routing calculations
- Scale routing infrastructure to support growing robot fleet
- Contribute to on-call rotations for production issues
- Stay current with advancements in autonomous navigation technologies
Nice to Have
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field
- Experience with autonomous vehicles or drones
- Knowledge of ROS or similar robotics frameworks
- Experience with machine learning applications in routing
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure for robotics
- Contributions to open-source robotics projects
- Experience deploying software in safety-regulated environments
- Background in operations research or optimization
- Published work in robotics or AI conferences
- Experience with edge computing in mobile systems
Compensation
Competitive salary with equity and benefits
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Team
Engineering team focused on autonomous delivery robotics
Our Impact
Our technology powers last-mile delivery robots that operate in real cities, reducing emissions and improving service efficiency.
What We Value
We prioritize technical excellence, ownership, and collaboration. We value engineers who are curious, proactive, and committed to building systems that work reliably in the real world.
Available for qualified candidates
