Clera

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 7 November 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join a defense technology team building autonomous systems that combine robotics, perception, and directed energy. You will develop and validate software on physical hardware, supporting reliable sensing, tracking, control, and autonomy in field environments.

What You'll Do

  • Own production C++ features across sensor data processing, tracking, control, or autonomy.
  • Profile and resolve threading, process structure, latency, and timing issues in the software you own.
  • Develop tests alongside features and build or maintain CI/CD and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
  • Debug issues that occur on physical systems, including failures identified through recorded or replayed sensor data.
  • Take part in regular field testing.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 4 years of hands-on robotics software engineering experience.
  • Production C++ experience on a physical robotic system, with software that reached repeated use in the field or by operators, customers, or fleets.
  • End-to-end ownership of features involving sensor data, tracking, control, or autonomy.
  • Fluency with real-time systems, including threading, latency, and timing analysis.
  • Experience with sensor timestamps, time synchronization, coordinate-frame transforms, sensor fusion, Kalman filtering, or target tracking is valuable.
  • Familiarity with ROS or ROS2, cameras, IMUs, encoders, gimbal or turret systems, and robotics HIL testing is a plus.
  • Defense, aerospace, or safety-critical software experience and an active security clearance are valued. US Person status is required due to export controls.

Compensation & Benefits

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

Location

On-site five days per week in San Francisco, California, United States. The role includes field test days.

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 349 open in Engineering. 217 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 (169 of 349), TypeScript (163 of 349), React (137 of 349), Python (134 of 349), Supabase (69 of 349), PostgreSQL (68 of 349), Machine Learning (64 of 349)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on Clera's own job board.

Posting history

Reposted 2 times since 21 October 2026: a posting for this role in San Francisco was taken down and the role was posted again.

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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