Software Engineer, Rhoda Platform

About the role

At Rhoda AI, we’re building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $450M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality.

We're looking for a Software Engineer to help build and maintain the broad software foundation that keeps our robots running. You'll work across the full onboard stack — from networking and communication infrastructure to perception and control integration, data collection pipelines, and the tooling that lets us continue to develop and improve our robots in the field.

What You'll Do

- Build and maintain the networking and communication infrastructure that connects onboard robot systems to each other, to the cloud, and to teleoperation and monitoring systems

- Own data collection pipelines that capture sensor, telemetry, and behavioral data from the robot and reliably upload it to cloud storage for model training

- Build and maintain telemetry and observability systems — giving the team real-time visibility into robot health, system state, and field performance

- Develop internal tooling that accelerates robot software development: deployment pipelines, logging infrastructure, debugging tools, and field testing utilities

- Productize the Rhoda Platform to enable efficient integration with vendor robotic hardware platforms

- Support bring-up and field testing of new hardware revisions, debugging issues across the full onboard software stack

- Collaborate closely with ML, perception, and control engineers to ensure onboard systems meet the data quality and reliability requirements of model training and deployment

What We're Looking For

- For experienced hires: 2+ years of experience in robotics software engineering, embedded systems, cloud software, or a closely related field; For new graduates: solid educational background in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or related fields

- Passion about a fast-moving & collaborate working environment

- Strong software engineering fundamentals in C++, Python, or Rust

- Experience with networking, IPC, and communication protocols for hardware-software systems (e.g., gRPC, DDS, MQTT, WebSockets)

- Familiarity with cloud storage and data upload pipelines (e.g., AWS, GCP, S3, GCS)

- Experience with ROS/ROS2 or similar robotics middleware in production or research contexts

- Ability to debug across the full stack — from driver-level issues to application behavior to failures in a distributed system, on live hardware