# Senior Software Engineer, Embedded Platform at Bonsai Robotics

- Company: Bonsai Robotics
- What the company does: About Bonsai Robotics Bonsai Robotics develops affordable, vision-based autonomy that makes off-road equipment smarter, safer, and more productive. Backed by E14 Fund.
- Company website: https://bonsairobotics.ai
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Jose, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $180K to $215K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-19
- Apply: https://ats.rippling.com/bonsairoboticsmain/jobs/43021598-60a2-4222-a3f8-50d57a660cc4
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/bonsai-robotics-senior-software-engineer-embedded-platform/

## 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

Tags: Software Engineering