Senior Embedded Software Systems Engineer - Robotics

About Rapyuta Robotics  We build robots that do the work people shouldn’t have to — physically demanding, repetitive, and dangerous tasks in warehouses and logistics operations worldwide. Our PA-AMR is Japan’s most deployed pick-assist robot. Our ASRS platform won the Good Design Award Gold 2024. Our cloud robotics platform, rapyuta.io, coordinates fleets of heterogeneous robots at scale.  The engineering challenge is real: robots operating in uncontrolled environments, under production load, with humans nearby. The embedded software stack — from bare-metal MCU drivers to real-time control loops to hardware abstraction layers — has to be correct, observable, and recoverable when things go wrong in the field. If you want to see your code move something physical in the real world, this is the work.  We’re a team of 300+ across 20+ countries, and we’re building toward a future where automation handles the dull and dangerous so people can focus on what actually takes human judgment.   The Role  As a Senior Embedded Software/Systems Engineer, you will closely collaborate with Electronics Engineers, Embedded Systems Engineers, and Robotics Software Engineers to push the boundaries of mechatronics on our autonomous mobile robot platform.  Your responsibilities include:  • Device driver development — Creating and optimizing device drivers for sensors, actuators, memory units, and computational units across our MCU and Linux-based platforms 

• Communication pipeline implementation — Designing and implementing intra- and inter-processor communication pipelines for memory- and compute-constrained devices 

• Robotic systems design — Contributing to embedded software architecture across the full stack: bare-metal firmware, RTOS configuration, hardware abstraction, and host-side platform libraries 

• Integration and bring-up — Collaborating with electronics engineers on board bring-up, schematic review, and hardware-firmware co-debugging 

• Automation and CI — Driving development of build, flash, and test automation for embedded targets 

• Mentorship — Technical leadership and mentoring of junior engineers; contributing to team-level design and code review standards