# Founding Middleware Lead at Cerulion

- Company: Cerulion (YC S24)
- What the company does: Open source operating system for robots. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.cerulion.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Mountain View, CA, US / Boston, MA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $145K to $180K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2025-02-06
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cerulion/jobs/C21ngNY-founding-middleware-lead
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/cerulion-founding-middleware-lead/

## About the role

We’re looking for a Founding Middleware Lead to join us in shaping the backend, making critical design choices along the way. Performance, developer experience when using endpoint APIs, and extensibility are some of the things you will juggle, while creating the best robot middleware out there.

## What they're looking for

- 3+ years of experience in robotics
- Proficiency in Rust, Python and C++
- Proficiency in ROS
- Familiarity with TCP/IP and UDP, communication protocols, message passing paradigms (pub/sub/query)
- Familiarity with inter-process communication and multithreading
- Strong software systems design skills

Tags: Engineering