Robotics Platform Software Engineer, DeepMind

What you'll do

• Develop real-time robotic software, including RTOS tuning and memory management.
• Build CI/CD infrastructure and hardware-in-the-loop testbenches; establish logging and data-visualization tools and processes.
• Ensure low-latency communication and system stability across the robot stack, following software development best practices.

What they ask for

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages and 5 years developing and debugging robotic software systems and supporting toolchains.
• 3 years testing, maintaining, or launching core robotics software stack components, plus 1 year in robotics software stack design and architecture.
• 3 years of processor and memory optimization, RTOS, and communication protocols (e.g., CAN, SPI, I2C, UART).

Nice to have

• GPU/TPU optimization for model inference and sensor fusion; experience with Mujoco, NVIDIA Isaac Sim, or Gazebo.
• Knowledge of robotic system design, including kinematics, dynamics, control algorithms, perception systems, and safety across physical and software layers.

Pay

$174000 - $252000 (USD) base salary

Tools

RTOS, CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, GPU/TPU, Mujoco, NVIDIA Isaac Sim

AI focus

Builds software platforms for embodied AI robotics; preferred work includes GPU/TPU optimization for model inference and sensor fusion.