Founding Middleware Lead

Overview

We’re looking for a Founding Middleware Lead to join us in shaping the backend, making critical design choices along the way. Performance, developer experience when using endpoint APIs, and extensibility are some of the things you will juggle, while creating the best robot middleware out there.

Everyone on board is an owner of the product we make. We all take responsibility, keep learning from each other, and work together to take on some pretty hard stuff. If this sounds like your cup of tea, rest assured we’ll have a lot of fun together!

Responsibilities

Work on messaging standards for zero-shot, deterministic robot visualization and development

Develop an open source robot middleware to implement this standard

Ensure 100% backwards compatibility with several different versions of ROS/ROS2 (dropping robustness guarantees as necessary)

Publish and help maintain GitHub repositories, documentation and blogs for the standards and middleware

Work closely with the visualization and hardware testing teams to ensure the final product is tightly integrated

Make key architecture and product decisions to ensure extensibility

Mentor and lead teams of future hires

Requirements

3+ years of experience in robotics

Proficiency in Rust, Python and C++

Proficiency in ROS

Familiarity with TCP/IP and UDP, communication protocols, message passing paradigms (pub/sub/query)

Familiarity with inter-process communication and multithreading

Strong software systems design skills

Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related engineering field

Preferred Skills

Experience with publishing and/or maintaining GitHub libraries for the community

Experience deploying robot software on hardware

Master’s degree in Robotics (official name for field of study may be different)

Familiarity with real time computing

Proficiency in Godot