Software Engineer, Onboard Platform

Software Engineer, Onboard Platform LocationSan Francisco, CAEmployment TypeFull timeLocation TypeHybridDepartmentEngineeringJoin the team bringing advanced autonomy to the built worldAt Bedrock, we’re moving AI out of the lab and into the real world. Our team is composed of industry veterans who helped launch Waymo, scaled Segment to a $3.2B acquisition, and grew Uber Freight to $5B in revenue. Today, we’re deploying autonomous systems on heavy construction machinery across the country, accelerating project schedules of billion-dollar infrastructure projects and improving safety on job sites. Backed by $350M in funding, we’re working quickly to close the gap between America's surging demand for housing, data centers, manufacturing hubs, and the construction industry's growing labor shortage.This is where algorithms meet steel-toed boots. You’ll collaborate with construction veterans and world-class engineers to solve physical-world problems that simulations can’t touch. If you're ready to apply cutting-edge technology to solve meaningful problems alongside a talented team—we'd love to have you join us.The RoleThe Onboard Infrastructure team builds the software foundation Bedrock's autonomous machines run on, the layer giving Bedrock the ability to scale across multiple machines, variations, models and environments. Our software keeps every machine working reliably hours from the nearest engineer, in harsh environments and on lossy connectivity, doing real work on billion-dollar projects.We're looking for Senior and Staff Software Engineers to architect, build, and own major areas of our onboard platform, from the OS, drivers, and system services up through the runtime frameworks our autonomy stack is built on. You'll take these systems from first bring-up through reliable operation in the field, keeping the platform fast, secure, and dependable at fleet scale.In this role, you will:Bring up next-generation compute and sensors as we expand to new machine typesDevelop the core system services that keep a fleet running reliably: software updates, lifecycle management, data logging, health monitoring, and connectivityArchitect and develop the onboard runtime and middleware for execution, communication, configuration, and observability that let autonomy teams move fast and ship to multiple machine typesOptimize and benchmark onboard system performance across CPU, GPU, and memory for mixed-criticality, real-time workloadsExpand diagnostics and observability across the onboard stack, enabling a small team to keep a growing fleet healthyBuild internal tools, frameworks, and test infrastructure that accelerate development and validation across engineeringLean into AI and agents, from automating development workflows to fleet analysis, triage, troubleshooting, and more.Required QualificationsExperience building and shipping embedded systems in robotics, automotive, drones, or other high-performance embedded contextsStrong programming skills in a systems language such as C++ or Rust, plus fluency in Python for scripting and analysisSolid foundation building software on Linux-based systems, with the versatility to work up and down the stack, from services and applications to performance tuning and system internalsComfortable developing, automating, and debugging across the hardware/software boundaryTrack record of leading projects, driving design decisions, and working effectively across hardware, autonomy, and platform teamsPreferred QualificationsHands-on work with real-world sensing systems, including cameras, lidar, GPS/GNSS, IMUs, radar, or other fielded sensorsBackground in OTA, security, connectivity, telemetry, diagnostics, or other production-hardening areas for connected fleetsFamiliarity with the NVIDIA Jetson ecosystem, including optimizing ML inference and other GPU workloads on embedded compute (e.g., CUDA, TensorRT)Experience with Rust in production or performance-critical systemsPrior work on safety-critical systemsOur...