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Founding Software Engineer, Robotics Infrastructure
Lambda RoboticsPosted Jul 31, 2026, 6:11 AM UTC
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Lambda Robotics builds autonomous systems for physical infrastructure. We’re looking for a founding software engineer to build the platform that turns individual robots into a secure, reliable fleet deployable across many customers and sites.
What you’ll own
Build the infrastructure for managing and operating fleets of robots
Design robot registration, identity, authentication, and access-control systems
Build secure multi-tenant architecture that isolates each customer’s robots and data
Develop remote deployment, configuration, software updates, and rollback systems
Build logging, monitoring, alerting, and incident-recovery infrastructure
Develop APIs and customer interfaces for commanding robots and viewing their status
Build reliable pipelines for robot telemetry, video, logs, and operational data
Work closely with robotics engineers to productionize teleoperation, autonomy, and data collection
Define the architecture needed to scale from a few robots to thousands
What we’re looking for
Deep experience building backend, distributed, cloud, or device-management systems
Comfortable working across Linux, networking, APIs, databases, and deployment infrastructure
Ability to design reliable systems that interact with real physical hardware
Strong ownership and comfort working in a fast-moving, early-stage environment
Nice to have
Experience with robotics, ROS 2, IoT, edge computing, or autonomous systems
Experience with Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, observability, or over-the-air updates
Experience building secure multi-tenant SaaS or fleet-management platforms
Familiarity with real-time video streaming and unreliable network environments
Visa: US citizen/visa only.