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Senior Robotics Software Engineer

San Francisco
Salary
$185,000 - $235,000 annually
Level
Senior
Work type
On-site · San Francisco
Visa
Not offered

Open. First seen 21 October 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join a defense technology team developing autonomous robotic systems. You will build and debug production C++ software on physical hardware, working across sensor data, tracking, control, and autonomy.

What You'll Do

  • Own production C++ features end to end across sensor data, tracking, control, or autonomy.
  • Profile and improve software you own, including threading, process structure, latency, and timing.
  • Write tests alongside features and maintain CI/CD and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
  • Debug issues that arise on physical hardware, including during field testing.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 4 years of hands-on robotics software engineering experience.
  • Experience writing production C++ that ran on a physical robotic system and was used repeatedly in the field or in operation.
  • Experience owning hardware-facing features and working with sensor data, tracking, control, or autonomy.
  • Fluency with real-time systems, including threading, latency, and timing analysis.
  • Experience building or maintaining CI/CD or hardware-in-the-loop testing for robotics software.
  • Familiarity with sensor synchronization, coordinate-frame transforms, sensor fusion, Kalman filtering, or target tracking is helpful.
  • ROS or ROS2, cameras, IMUs, encoders, gimbal or turret systems, and defense, aerospace, or safety-critical software experience are useful.
  • Must meet US Person requirements for export control purposes.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $185,000 to $235,000 annually, plus equity. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California, five days per week, with field test days included.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

CI/CD · ROS

Rare in Clera's other 299 open postings.

Standard for embedded / hardware roles

C++

Common in embedded / hardware postings at any company.

Compared with Clera's other open jobs.

The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 385 open in Engineering. 319 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

LLM (162 of 385), Python (160 of 385), TypeScript (151 of 385), React (122 of 385), Machine Learning (92 of 385), PostgreSQL (70 of 385), JavaScript (66 of 385)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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Salary context

8 other open postings titled Senior Robotics Software Engineer state a salary: median USD 187,350 to USD 251,500 a year.

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