Ixian Robotics
Robotics Software Engineer
$150K–$200K
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
About the job
Build and maintain the software connecting sensors, robots, and machine-learning systems, from robot runtime and infrastructure to engineering and operator tools.
What you'll do
- Develop sensor and actuator interfaces, robot runtime, and data pipelines.
- Improve performance across Linux, networking, storage, camera pipelines, and compute; build deployment and test workflows.
- Bring up systems with hardware, ML, and operations teams, and diagnose and address failures on real equipment.
What they ask for
- Experience building and maintaining software that interacts with hardware, sensors, or timing-sensitive systems.
- Strong Python and proficiency in C++ or Rust for performance-sensitive work.
- Practical Linux experience and systematic profiling, testing, and debugging skills.
- Ability to take a loosely defined problem through implementation and validation on real equipment.
Nice to have
- Robotics middleware, camera calibration, or sensor synchronization.
- Serving ML models under latency constraints, or building data infrastructure and tools for technicians and operators.
Pay
$150,000–$200,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, C++, Rust, Linux
AI focus
Develop robot runtime capabilities for model inference and work with ML systems; useful experience includes serving ML models under latency constraints.
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