Atoms
Senior Robotics Systems Engineer
$176K–$242K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 7, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 3+ years of professional (non-internship) software development experience.
About the job
Develop and deploy autonomy features for autonomous trucks, lead field deployments, and debug and integrate vehicle systems for reliable operation.
What you'll do
- Develop, integrate, test, and validate autonomy features for real-world vehicle operation.
- Diagnose system-level issues across sensors, compute, networking, controls, and software; bring up and integrate truck platforms.
- Lead deployment execution and coordinate engineering and operations teams, including customer-site support and on-vehicle debugging.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of professional (non-internship) software development experience.
- Strong programming skills in at least one of Python, C++, Java, or C#, with object-oriented design and maintainable systems experience.
- Robotics engineering experience with system-level ownership, plus working knowledge of robotics concepts such as state estimation, localization, planning, or controls.
- Experience deploying autonomy/robotics systems in the field and ability to design and debug software systems with strong diagnostics.
Nice to have
- Experience with sensor fusion, safety systems, camera pipelines, ML for perception, vehicle interfaces (CAN), or calibration workflows.
- Familiarity with Linux, Git, CI/CD, and simulation/test harnesses.
Pay
$176,000 - $242,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, C++, Java, C#, Linux, Git, CI/CD, CAN
AI focus
Develop and deploy autonomy capabilities for autonomous trucks; listed ML for perception as one area of experience.
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