Senior Software Engineer – Robot Applications, Voice AI

🕒 July 28

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $107k - $172k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🤖 Robotics

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Cerence Inc.

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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 core logic translating human speech, gestures, environmental cues, and contextual information into deterministic robotic tasks • Integrate vision pipelines, object detection, scene understanding, spatial tracking, and voice interactions • Develop 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 across low-latency local execution and 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 • Collaborate with experts in robotics, conversational AI, embedded systems, and cloud computing • Build software powering the next generation of intelligent humanoid robots and see it deployed in real-world robotic environments

🎯 Requirements

• 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 • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience using Python and/or C++ • 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 • Experience with voice and speech stacks such as Cerence, Whisper, Deepgram, Azure Speech, ElevenLabs, AWS Speech Services, or STT/TTS/NLU platforms • Experience with ROS2 application nodes, services, actions, topics, navigation, and manipulation APIs • Experience with object detection, scene understanding, visual grounding, and spatial reasoning systems • Experience with beamforming, Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC), microphone arrays, and noise suppression • Experience building software for humanoids, service robots, warehouse automation, or embodied AI systems • Experience with telemetry, analytics, evaluation systems, retraining pipelines, and AI feedback loops • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, OTA updates, and edge deployment environments • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Software Engineering, AI, or a related discipline

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual bonus opportunity • Insurance coverage (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability) • Paid time off • Paid holidays • Company contribution to the 401(k) plan • Equity awards for certain positions and levels • Remote and/or hybrid work available depending on the position

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