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Collaborative Robots
Staff Embedded Software Engineer (Robotics)
Skills
LinuxProcess Improvement
2 months ago
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Important information
Contract type:
Permanent
Salary:
$205,000 – $235,000 / year
Location:
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Work mode:
Onsite
Published on:
18 August 2026
What they need
- Collaborative Robotics is seeking a Staff Embedded Software Engineer to build the production embedded software that powers our robots
- In this role, you will work closely with hardware, developing firmware, device drivers, time-critical embedded software, diagnostics, and fault-handling systems
- You will play a key part in shaping robot behavior, reliability, performance, and safety
- This is a hands-on technical leadership position
- You will continue to write and review production-grade C++, drive key technical decisions, mentor fellow engineers, and collaborate closely with our Hardware, Systems, Controls, Safety and Test teams
- Prior functional safety expertise is a plus, but not required
- Join us to reimagine the future of human-robot interaction
- Collaborative Robotics is a team of innovators dedicated to redefining the future of human-robot interaction
- We are building a world where robots act as a trusted extension of your surroundings—robots that adapt and react to you, not the other way around
- This position is based onsite at our Santa Clara, CA headquarters. We offer a relocation stipend for candidates living more than 50 miles away
- Design & Development: Design, implement, test, and maintain production embedded software using C++
- System Ownership: Develop firmware, device drivers, hardware interfaces, diagnostics, and fault-handling mechanisms
- Full Lifecycle Ownership: Own software from requirements through integration, verification, release, and field support
- System Reliability: Build reliable, time-critical systems that account for timing constraints, concurrency, resource limitations, edge cases, and hardware failures
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with engineering teams to define and validate safe and trustworthy robot behavior
- Technical Leadership: Lead root-cause investigations and drive improvements in architecture, testing, code quality, documentation, and release practices
- Mentorship: Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the embedded software team- 8+ years of experience developing embedded or firmware software for complex hardware systems
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a highly collaborative, team-oriented mindset
- U.S. work authorization required
- Proven experience delivering software across the full development lifecycle
- Demonstrated technical leadership via design ownership, mentorship, or engineering process improvements
- Strong knowledge of interrupts, memory management, communication protocols, timing, concurrency, and embedded debugging
- Experience with microcontrollers or systems-on-chip, RTOS or embedded operating systems, device drivers, peripherals, and hardware bring-up
- Enthusiasm for working in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment
- Strong, recent hands-on experience programming in C++
- Willingness to travel occasionally
- Experience delivering software across the full development lifecycle
- Background in robotics, autonomous systems, automotive, aerospace, medical devices, industrial automation, or other high-reliability systems
- Familiarity with functional safety standards or methods such as IEC 61508, ISO 26262, ISO 13849, FMEA, FTA, HARA, or STPA
- Experience with embedded Linux, QNX, AUTOSAR, FreeRTOS, Zephyr, or similar environments
- Experience integrating sensors, actuators, motor controls, or distributed compute systems
- Experience with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing, CI/CD, diagnostics, field reliability, or incident investigation
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