Senior Software Engineer

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Spot team at Boston Dynamics, you will be part of a highly collaborative group passionate about innovation and cutting-edge robotic technology. You will define and create key software infrastructure components to allow our robots to operate in a performant, reliable, secure, and scalable fashion.

Day to Day Activities

• Create toolchains for building, verifying, and deploying system images across multiple architectures.
• Address system performance issues by debugging, building instrumentation and diagnostic tools, and architecting high-performance infrastructure components.
• Enable hardware innovations by derisking designs, creating system architecture, and developing device drivers or kernel support.
• Ensure product security using techniques like Secure Boot, Disk Encryption, Process Sandboxing, and Access Controls.
• Communicate designs and best practices across the organization and mentor junior engineers.

Required Skills

• Linux expertise in both kernel and user spaces.
• Deep understanding of processes, threads, interrupt handling, file systems, IPC mechanisms, memory management, systemd, etc.
• 8+ years of experience in C/C++ development along with shell scripting or Python.
• Excellent debugging skills and performance optimization experience.

Desired Skills

• Experience with Embedded Linux and Real Time Linux.
• Working knowledge of hardware-accelerated compute pipelines including GPUs, ML accelerators, and DSPs.
• Familiarity with hardware protocols such as PCIe, Ethernet, I2C, SPI, etc.
• Hardware bring-up and debugging, including reading schematics and datasheets.

Key skills/competency

• Linux
• C/C++
• Debugging
• System Performance
• Security
• Embedded Systems
• Kernel Development
• Toolchain
• Hardware Protocols
• Mentorship