Robotics Software Engineer – Fault Detection, Recovery

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November 26

🏄 California – Remote

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💵 $140k - $165k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🤖 Robotics

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Serve Robotics

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Transport • Artificial Intelligence

Serve Robotics is an innovative company focused on revolutionizing the delivery industry with its autonomous delivery robots. The company aims to make delivery services more affordable, sustainable, and convenient by using self-driving robots instead of traditional two-ton vehicles for small deliveries like burritos. Through a commercial deal with Uber, Serve Robotics plans to deploy up to 2,000 robots, marking a significant advancement in the autonomous delivery sector.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

🚗 Transport

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $30M Venture Round on 2023-08

📋 Description

• Design and implement fault detection and recovery frameworks across autonomy and control components. • Lead Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) activities and translate findings into actionable software mechanisms. • Develop health monitoring and diagnostics systems to assess real-time component and subsystem performance. • Implement state management and recovery logic for scenarios like sensor degradation, controller faults, and odometry resets. • Define and execute degradation-aware behaviors to ensure safe operation under partial system failures. • Establish end-to-end performance and latency monitoring to support fault-tolerant autonomy. • Contribute to ODD (Operational Design Domain) detection and management, ensuring appropriate system response to environmental changes.

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in robotics or autonomous systems software development. • Strong proficiency in C++ and Python, with experience in real-time and distributed systems. • Solid understanding of autonomy architectures, including perception, planning, localization and control pipelines. • Hands-on experience with ROS/ROS2 or similar robotic middleware. • Familiarity with fault-tolerant design, FMEA, diagnostics, or reliability engineering. • Proven ability to collaborate across software and hardware teams to deliver resilient robotic systems.

🏖️ Benefits

• Offers Equity