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Software Engineer, Systems

Kovari · San Francisco · On-site

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About Kovari

Technology for physical businesses. Backed by Bain Capital Ventures.

About the role

Build and maintain the onboard runtime, middleware, and real-time control loops Write drivers and integrations for sensors, motor controllers, and compute Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Strong C++ or Rust, plus Python
  • Experience with real-time or embedded Linux systems
  • Familiarity with ROS 2 or similar robotics middleware
  • Experience with comms buses and protocols (CAN, EtherCAT, Ethernet, USB)
  • Comfort with networking, containers, and fleet deployment tooling
  • Bonus: robotics, autonomous vehicles, or drones in production
More about this role

About Kovari

Kovari develops frontier technology to transform physical businesses. We partner with established operators to change how they run, and we build and operate businesses of our own through our subsidiaries.

We are a small team of builders, operators, and researchers. We deploy on site, alongside the businesses we serve, and iterate in the field. We have raised over $6M from leading investors.

We are based in San Francisco and work in person.

The Role

You will own the software foundation our robots run on, from the onboard runtime and drivers to networking, updates, and fleet reliability. When a robot is in the field, your code keeps it alive, fast, and recoverable.

Build and maintain the onboard runtime, middleware, and real-time control loops

Write drivers and integrations for sensors, motor controllers, and compute

Own Linux, networking, and security on robots and edge devices

Build OTA updates, logging, monitoring, and remote diagnostics for the fleet

Profile and optimize latency, throughput, and resource use on edge hardware

Debug failures on deployed robots and harden the stack against them

Strong C++ or Rust, plus Python

Experience with real-time or embedded Linux...

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