Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Software Engineer role stands out in the SaaS ecosystem because it applies modern software platform thinking to a hardware grounded product. Even though the domain is robotics and embedded systems, the work described centers on building reliable services, APIs, monitoring, and deployment practices that mirror the operational demands of SaaS, with a clear emphasis on extensibility and system robustness.
For a long-term SaaS career, the value is in developing strong fundamentals in production reliability and infrastructure discipline. Ownership across CI/CD, logging, debugging, and state management builds instincts that translate directly to running multi service SaaS platforms, especially where safety, uptime, and observability matter. The mix of embedded constraints and cloud style tooling also broadens engineering judgment around tradeoffs, testing strategy, and failure modes.
This role fits engineers who prefer deep systems work, enjoy architectural decision making, and want to influence engineering practices beyond individual features. It will suit professionals comfortable collaborating across hardware and software boundaries, and those motivated by building foundational components that other teams depend on.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Employment Type
Full time
About Standard Bots
Standard Bot’s mission is to significantly lower the barrier to entry to real-world automation, bringing the power of bits to the world of atoms and unlocking productivity for entire new industries and users. Our robotics, vision, and networking platform is the basis for our company’s ambitious goals- and a platform of such magnitude requires a deep investment in extensibility, simplicity, and reliability. Embedded Systems engineering is the basis of the entire company’s mission. The foundations they build to empower not only the company, but entire industries.
What you'll do
We’re looking for seasoned and skilled technical leaders to help architect the future of robotics through best in class, modern software engineering practices. We're looking for seasoned and skilled technical leaders to help architect robust backend systems that power our robotics platform. As an Embedded Software Engineer, you will work on critical infrastructure that enables safe and reliable robot operations, from hardware integrations to state management and control systems. You’ll work on new R&D hardware as well as our production robot hardware.
Responsibilities
Design and implement robust backend architectures for robot control and state management
Build and maintain test infrastructure to ensure system safety and reliability
Develop the firmware for hardware integration of various robotics peripherals (cameras, grippers, sensors)
Drive technical decisions around system architecture and engineering best practices
Create reliable APIs and services that enable seamless robot operations
Implement monitoring, logging, and debugging systems for robot operations
Mentor other engineers on backend architecture and system design principles
Software Stack and Ownership Areas
The Systems Group focuses on foundational technologies including motor control, Linux host OS configuration, system health monitoring/logging, and robotic control systems.
Tech Stack
Embedded: STM32, C / C++, RTOS
Host & Services: Linux, NodeJS / TypeScript
Infrastructure & Tooling: Docker, GitHub Actions, CI/CD
Who you are
💡 We do not require or favor any background in robotics
We’re looking for engineers who are self-driven, optimistic, creative, and resourceful. We have no requirements for a background in robotics, but find most success with engineers excited by the domain and looking to apply their expertise and experience in a new, fascinating area.
Skills you’ll bring
Experience: You have a strong technical background, including 5+ years working in complex environments
Growth + Optimism: You are excited by new domains and challenges, and eager to pick up new context to accelerate your impact
Clarity of Communication: You excel in written and verbal communication and enjoy leveraging your skills to support your peers
Impact Driven: You relentlessly seek user impact and value execution over technical idealism
Proactive Simplicity: You prioritize simplicity, reliability, and velocity and proactively identify opportunities to improve proposed implementations or incumbent systems
Excelling in Ambitious Environments: You excel in dynamic and ambitious environments, working with a diverse group of individuals and backgrounds
Compensation and Benefits:
The salary range for this role is $170,000 to $210,000, depending on experience. Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at Standard Bots. All Full-Time Employees are eligible for Employee Stock Options. We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees.
