About Bonsai Robotics Bonsai Robotics develops affordable, vision-based autonomy that makes off-road equipment smarter, safer, and more productive. Backed by E14 Fund.
About the role
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Embedded Platform to own the embedded Linux platform that keeps our fleet running in the field. Our machines operate in orchards and row crops far from the office, on intermittent connectivity, and they need to be updated, configured, monitored, and debugged remotely.
What they're looking for
- Own fleet management infrastructure — device identity and provisioning, hierarchical configuration and secrets management, remote access, and an accurate live picture of what software every machine is running
- Build the observability stack for a distributed fleet — on-robot telemetry, metrics, logs, and health signals flowing to the cloud, with dashboards and alerting that surface failures before a customer calls
- Own the OS layer — Yocto-based BSP maintenance, kernel and device tree configuration, system services, boot and recovery paths, and reproducible image builds across multiple compute platforms
- Design and maintain build and release infrastructure for embedded targets — cross-compilation, CI/CD, artifact management, and release pipelines that make deploying to a live machine routine rather than an event
- Partner with the firmware, autonomy, and field operations teams to define integration and release requirements across multiple robot form factors
- As an early platform engineer at a growing team, expect to work outside this scope regularly — bringing up new hardware, unblocking a field deployment, or building whatever tooling the team needs next
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About the role
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Embedded Platform to own the embedded Linux platform that keeps our fleet running in the field. Our machines operate in orchards and row crops far from the office, on intermittent connectivity, and they need to be updated, configured, monitored, and debugged remotely. This role owns that end to end: the Yocto-based operating system image, the over-the-air update path, fleet configuration and provisioning, and the observability infrastructure that tells us what every machine is doing. The ideal candidate is a Linux systems engineer who is comfortable from the bootloader up to a cloud dashboard, and who treats "we had to drive out to the field to fix it" as a bug.
What you'll do
- Own over-the-air (OTA) updates end to end across the fleet — image build and signing, staged rollout, rollback and failure recovery, and update delivery to both Linux compute modules and CAN-connected embedded controllers.
- Own fleet management infrastructure — device identity and provisioning, hierarchical configuration and secrets management, remote access, and an accurate live picture of what software every machine is running.
- Build the...
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