Principal Software Engineer – Robot Applications, Voice AI

🕒 July 28

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $165.6k - $264.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🤖 Robotics

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Cerence Inc.

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2019

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

💰 Grant on 2020-12

Consulting • Logistics • Manufacturing

Cerence Inc. is a global company focused on providing AI-powered solutions, particularly in the automotive industry. They specialize in conversational and generative AI technologies that create intelligent, natural, and personalized interactions between humans and vehicles. With innovations like their proprietary automotive large language models, Cerence enhances user experiences across various forms of transport including cars, two-wheelers, and trucks. The company has over 500 million vehicles shipped with its AI technology, serving more than 80 OEMs and Tier 1 customers worldwide. Cerence is dedicated to continuous advancements in AI, aiming to revolutionize in-car user experiences through fast delivery and seamless integration of their solutions.

📋 Description

• Implement high-level application software, interaction workflows, and robotic behavioral state machines • Build the core logic that translates human speech, gestures, environmental cues, and contextual information into deterministic robotic tasks • Integrate vision pipelines, object detection, scene understanding, spatial tracking, and voice interactions to provide contextual awareness • Develop robust voice applications managing STT, NLU, dialog management, wake-word detection, and TTS interfaces • Build orchestration workflows combining LLMs, VLMs, memory systems, tool calling, reasoning engines, and robotic capabilities • Consume and orchestrate navigation, manipulation, perception, and device-control services exposed by the robotics platform • Optimize applications to balance low-latency local execution with cloud-based AI services • Integrate robots with mobile devices, smart home ecosystems, enterprise applications, and cloud APIs • Build telemetry, logging, and evaluation mechanisms supporting continuous model improvement • Contribute to testing, observability, CI/CD, and production deployment practices

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience using Python and/or C++ • Strong proficiency in BehaviorTree.CPP, state machines, workflow orchestration engines, or task-planning architectures • Hands-on experience building applications using LLMs, VLMs, tool-calling architectures, agent frameworks, RAG systems, or semantic memory platforms • Experience designing scalable application-layer software, API-driven systems, distributed services, and event-driven architectures • Experience optimizing software on resource-constrained edge hardware under intermittent connectivity conditions • Experience integrating cloud AI services, model serving platforms, and containerized deployments • Automated testing, debugging, monitoring, observability, and CI/CD practices • Experience designing natural, context-aware human-machine experiences.

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual bonus opportunity • Insurance coverage (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability) • Paid time off • Paid holidays • Company contribution to the RRSP (Registered Retirement Savings Plan) • Equity awards for certain positions and levels • Remote and/or hybrid work available depending on the position