# Senior Software Engineer at Gradient Robotics

- Company: Gradient Robotics
- What the company does: Gradient Robotics is building autonomous robots for AI infrastructure buildout. Backed by South Park Commons.
- Company website: https://gradientrobotics.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-07-22
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/gradientrobotics/af37dc54-f478-4c8b-984a-3b0faf5e69ca
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/gradient-robotics-senior-software-engineer/

## About the role

We're looking for a Founding Software Engineer to own how Gradient Robotics moves data from AI models to actuators. You'll work close to the hardware, from kernel and firmware up through the controls and perception layers, owning real-time pipelines that move hundreds of megabytes at single-digit millisecond latency. Vision inference, control loops, and actuation all live on the same clock, and it's your job to keep them there.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of software engineering experience building production systems close to hardware (drivers, kernels, embedded, robotics, or similar)
- Software: Rust, Python, C++, operating systems, and multithreading
- Infrastructure: Bazel, Nix, HIL testing, and CI/CD
- Firmware and platform: Linux kernel hacking and embedded systems
- Debugged timing and concurrency issues in the wild
- Owned messy, ambiguous problems and turned them into robust software

Tags: Engineering