Senior Embedded Linux Software Engineer

Role Summary

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Spot team, you will be part of a highly collaborative group that is passionate about innovation and robots. In this role, you will define and create key software infrastructure components that enable our robots to operate in a performant, reliable, secure, and scalable fashion. You will work closely with other software developers, hardware developers, and product managers to deliver great robots to our customers.

• Create tool chains for building, verifying, and deploying system images across a variety of computer architectures.
• Address systems performance issues: debug field issues, build instrumentation and diagnostic tools, and design high‑performance infrastructure components such as IPC systems or process/thread scheduling approaches.
• Enable new hardware innovations: derisk designs during early phases, create overall software system architecture, and develop device drivers or kernel support where needed.
• Ensure the security of our products using techniques such as Secure Boot, Disk Encryption, Process Sandboxing, and Access Controls.
• Communicate designs and best practices across the broader organization.
• Mentor junior engineers and share your expertise.

• Linux expertise – both kernel and user spaces, with deep understanding of processes, threads, interrupt handling, file systems, IPC mechanisms, memory management, systemd, and other components.
• 8+ years of software development experience in C/C++, along with shell scripting or Python.
• Excellent debugging skills – overall methodology and proficiency with available tools.
• Performance optimization of systems.

• Embedded Linux and Real‑Time Linux experience.
• Working knowledge of hardware‑accelerated compute pipelines (GPUs, ML accelerators, DSPs, etc.).
• Experience with common hardware protocols such as PCIe, Ethernet, I2C, SPI, etc.
• Hardware bring‑up and debugging, including the ability to read schematics/datasheets and use common tools.

We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States; however, we are not able to sponsor visas for this position.

The base pay range for this position is between $ to $192,887 annually, depending on multiple individualized factors such as internal equity, job‑related knowledge, skills and experience.

Boston Dynamics offers a generous benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), paid time off and an annual bonus structure. Additional details regarding these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer for employment.