Staff Software Engineer - Physical AI

Role description

Role Overview

The Staff Software Engineer will drive the architectural evolution of the platform as it scales to meet growing demand from the world's largest engineering companies. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll drive critical architectural initiatives across the full software lifecycle.

What You Will Do

Write production-quality Python code for critical platform components, build and optimize distributed compute services, implement reliable workflow orchestration patterns, and own CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment strategy for platform services.

Why It Might Be a Fit

We value candidates who can bring their own diversified experiences to our teams – even if you aren't a 100% skill or experience match. We believe in investing in our people, and we're looking for individuals with technical excellence, operational rigor, and a pragmatic problem-solving approach.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including time in a staff-level engineering role
• Broad software engineering depth spanning deployment and CI/CD, automated testing, and SRE/production reliability
• Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, including building and operating large-scale distributed backend systems end-to-end
• Strong API and service interface design skills for distributed services
• Security-minded development, including authentication/authorization (e.g., OAuth) and secure-by-default practices
• Expert-level Python development skills with production experience at scale
• Strong Kubernetes experience with production workloads
• Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration tools (Temporal, Airflow, Kubeflow, or similar)
• Cloud platform expertise (AWS required, Azure & GCP beneficial)
• Experience with data processing frameworks (Spark, Athena, Ray, or similar)
• Track record of driving architectural transformations in growing companies

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Company-paid Life Insurance
• Voluntary supplemental life insurance
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health
• Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible PTO
• 401(k) with a generous employer match
• Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
• A casual work environment
• A work culture focused on innovative disruption