Eka Robotics
Developer Productivity Engineer
Boston Area · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
About the job
Owns and improves Eka Robotics’ build system and developer tools to help engineers build, test, and deploy experiments more quickly and reliably.
What you'll do
- Evolve Bazel build infrastructure, including build rules, toolchains, dependency management, and remote caching.
- Improve build and test speed, reliability, reproducibility, and everyday engineering workflows across local development and CI.
- Develop internal tools and collaborate with researchers and robotics engineers to identify friction and measure improvements.
What they ask for
- Experience building or maintaining build systems, developer tools, or CI infrastructure used by other engineers.
- Deep understanding of dependency graphs, caching, reproducibility, and build and test performance tradeoffs.
- Proficiency with Python, Linux, and shell tooling; ability to debug across language and system boundaries.
- Ability to own ambiguous problems and carry solutions through implementation and adoption.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with Bazel.
- Experience managing C++ toolchains, Python packaging, GPU software dependencies, machine learning training infrastructure, robotics, or reinforcement learning.
Tools
Bazel, Bzlmod, Gazelle, GitHub Actions, Python, C++, Docker, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
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