Chef Robotics
San Francisco, California
Job DescriptionJob DescriptionChef Robotics is accelerating the deployment of intelligent machines in the physical world, starting with food production-a sector facing the largest labor shortage in the U.S., with 1.14M unfilled jobs today and 3.1M projected by 2030. These roles cannot be offshored, making robotics essential to keeping production onshore and strengthening America's manufacturing base. Backed by investors like Kleiner Perkins, Construct, Bloomberg Beta, and Promus Ventures, and supported by a world-class team from companies such as Cruise, Zoox, Google, Tesla, and Amazon Robotics, Chef is rapidly scaling with multiple multi-year contracts and a mission to put an intelligent robot in every commercial kitchen. About the Role Chef is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Robotics Platform, to help us scale our fleet of robots. You will make a large impact on a small team, ensuring our robot compute, OS, middleware, and networking provide a stable and performant platform for our autonomy software and algorithms. You'll be working on everything from low-level system software to high-bandwidth sensor data logging, debugging, and performance analysis. Ideal candidates will also be interested in overall product performance and will work closely with senior robotics and perception engineers to debug, test, and release new autonomy features.In this role, you will: Debug and fix difficult low-level systems software problems, e.g. with drivers, networking, Linux configuration. Lead an upgrade of our autonomy software OS and middleware. Investigate load and networking issues and increase performance of our perception and robotics algorithms. Work with manufacturing to develop processes for provisioning robotic systems at scale. Help integrate new robot hardware, sensors, and cameras, and monitor performance. Contribute to overall software architecture design and standards and test and release processes. Champion engineering excellence, ensuring high-quality, well-structured, and well-tested code. What You Bring: BS in computer science, robotics, or equivalent experience. Strong experience and expertise in Linux systems, with at least 4+ years experience building complex software in a Linux environment. Excellent software engineering fundamentals. Experience leading and shipping complex software projects. Understanding of network and time protocols, e.g. TCP, UDP, PTP. Knowledge of build systems and tooling, performance optimization, and memory and network profiling. Nice to Have: Robotics experience. Experience with the robotics tech stack, e.g. Linux, ROS, OpenCV, CUDA. Experience with full-stack web engineering and infrastructure. Experience in systems engineering or product management. Experience with basic mechatronics and electronics. Experience leading projects or people in a tech lead or similar capacity. Chef is an early-stage startup where equity is a major part of the compensation package. As the company secures more capital, we will gradually increase salary and cash compensation. The starting salary will depend on seniority. In addition to salary and early-stage equity, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, commuter benefits, flexible paid time off (PTO), catered lunch, and 401(k) matching. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
Job DescriptionJob DescriptionChef Robotics is accelerating the deployment of intelligent machines in the physical world, starting with food production-a sector facing the largest labor shortage in the U.S., with 1.14M unfilled jobs today and 3.1M projected by 2030. These roles cannot be offshored, making robotics essential to keeping production onshore and strengthening America's manufacturing base. Backed by investors like Kleiner Perkins, Construct, Bloomberg Beta, and Promus Ventures, and supported by a world-class team from companies such as Cruise, Zoox, Google, Tesla, and Amazon Robotics, Chef is rapidly scaling with multiple multi-year contracts and a mission to put an intelligent robot in every commercial kitchen. About the Role Chef is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Robotics Platform, to help us scale our fleet of robots. You will make a large impact on a small team, ensuring our robot compute, OS, middleware, and networking provide a stable and performant platform for our autonomy software and algorithms. You'll be working on everything from low-level system software to high-bandwidth sensor data logging, debugging, and performance analysis. Ideal candidates will also be interested in overall product performance and will work closely with senior robotics and perception engineers to debug, test, and release new autonomy features.In this role, you will: Debug and fix difficult low-level systems software problems, e.g. with drivers, networking, Linux configuration. Lead an upgrade of our autonomy software OS and middleware. Investigate load and networking issues and increase performance of our perception and robotics algorithms. Work with manufacturing to develop processes for provisioning robotic systems at scale. Help integrate new robot hardware, sensors, and cameras, and monitor performance. Contribute to overall software architecture design and standards and test and release processes. Champion engineering excellence, ensuring high-quality, well-structured, and well-tested code. What You Bring: BS in computer science, robotics, or equivalent experience. Strong experience and expertise in Linux systems, with at least 4+ years experience building complex software in a Linux environment. Excellent software engineering fundamentals. Experience leading and shipping complex software projects. Understanding of network and time protocols, e.g. TCP, UDP, PTP. Knowledge of build systems and tooling, performance optimization, and memory and network profiling. Nice to Have: Robotics experience. Experience with the robotics tech stack, e.g. Linux, ROS, OpenCV, CUDA. Experience with full-stack web engineering and infrastructure. Experience in systems engineering or product management. Experience with basic mechatronics and electronics. Experience leading projects or people in a tech lead or similar capacity. Chef is an early-stage startup where equity is a major part of the compensation package. As the company secures more capital, we will gradually increase salary and cash compensation. The starting salary will depend on seniority. In addition to salary and early-stage equity, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, commuter benefits, flexible paid time off (PTO), catered lunch, and 401(k) matching. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
Chef Robotics
San Francisco, California
Job DescriptionJob DescriptionChef Robotics is accelerating the deployment of intelligent machines in the physical world, starting with food production-a sector facing the largest labor shortage in the U.S., with 1.14M unfilled jobs today and 3.1M projected by 2030. These roles cannot be offshored, making robotics essential to keeping production onshore and strengthening America's manufacturing base. Backed by investors like Kleiner Perkins, Construct, Bloomberg Beta, and Promus Ventures, and supported by a world-class team from companies such as Cruise, Zoox, Google, Tesla, and Amazon Robotics, Chef is rapidly scaling with multiple multi-year contracts and a mission to put an intelligent robot in every commercial kitchen. About the Role We're seeking a Staff Software Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership for the core software platform that powers our production robotic systems. This role owns the on-robot software stack end to end, from Linux-based platform software and robotics middleware through fleet management, deployment, and cloud connectivity. You'll work across software and data engineering, partnering closely with Autonomy, Hardware, Product, and Field Operations to deliver production-ready robotic systems for Tier 1 food production customers.Technical Architecture & Platform Leadership Define and evolve the architecture for on-robot software, including OS configuration, hardware abstraction, middleware, and system services Lead middleware architecture decisions for real-time robot control, sensor integration, and inter-process communication Establish patterns for full-stack development, connecting on-robot systems to cloud services and web interfaces Hands-On Engineering Write production code for high-impact features across the stack: robotics middleware, backend services, and cloud infrastructure Lead critical technical initiatives, including robotic platform software, cloud data pipelines, and fleet management platform Build robust deployment, monitoring, and OTA update systems for production robot fleets Debug the most challenging issues from kernel/driver level through the application layer Engineering Excellence & Mentorship Establish engineering standards and processes that balance rigor with startup agility Champion reliability, observability, and testing practices across embedded and cloud systems Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and pairing sessions Collaborate with Hardware and Autonomy teams on system integration and performance optimization Build and maintain internal and developer tooling that acts as a force multiplier across the organization Required Qualification 8+ years of software engineering with 3+ years in technical leadership roles Track record delivering production robotic systems, IoT devices, or autonomous systems at scale Experience designing reliable systems for B2B/enterprise deployments On-device platform expertise: OS configuration, device drivers, system services, networking stack configuration Robotics middleware: ROS/ROS2, real-time systems, sensor integration Infrastructure: Containerization (Docker/K8s), CI/CD pipelines, monitoring/observability Nice to have Collaborative robots (Universal Robots UR5E or similar cobots) Over-the-air update systems and remote device management at scale Background in manufacturing/production environments Track record at high-growth hardware/robotics startups Cloud experience: AWS/GCP/Azure Full-stack development: Backend services (Python/C++), APIs, database design, web interfaces Chef is an early-stage startup where equity is a major part of the compensation package. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. In addition to salary and early-stage equity, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, commuter benefits, flexible paid time off (PTO), catered lunch, and 401(k) matching. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
Job DescriptionJob DescriptionChef Robotics is accelerating the deployment of intelligent machines in the physical world, starting with food production-a sector facing the largest labor shortage in the U.S., with 1.14M unfilled jobs today and 3.1M projected by 2030. These roles cannot be offshored, making robotics essential to keeping production onshore and strengthening America's manufacturing base. Backed by investors like Kleiner Perkins, Construct, Bloomberg Beta, and Promus Ventures, and supported by a world-class team from companies such as Cruise, Zoox, Google, Tesla, and Amazon Robotics, Chef is rapidly scaling with multiple multi-year contracts and a mission to put an intelligent robot in every commercial kitchen. About the Role We're seeking a Staff Software Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership for the core software platform that powers our production robotic systems. This role owns the on-robot software stack end to end, from Linux-based platform software and robotics middleware through fleet management, deployment, and cloud connectivity. You'll work across software and data engineering, partnering closely with Autonomy, Hardware, Product, and Field Operations to deliver production-ready robotic systems for Tier 1 food production customers.Technical Architecture & Platform Leadership Define and evolve the architecture for on-robot software, including OS configuration, hardware abstraction, middleware, and system services Lead middleware architecture decisions for real-time robot control, sensor integration, and inter-process communication Establish patterns for full-stack development, connecting on-robot systems to cloud services and web interfaces Hands-On Engineering Write production code for high-impact features across the stack: robotics middleware, backend services, and cloud infrastructure Lead critical technical initiatives, including robotic platform software, cloud data pipelines, and fleet management platform Build robust deployment, monitoring, and OTA update systems for production robot fleets Debug the most challenging issues from kernel/driver level through the application layer Engineering Excellence & Mentorship Establish engineering standards and processes that balance rigor with startup agility Champion reliability, observability, and testing practices across embedded and cloud systems Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and pairing sessions Collaborate with Hardware and Autonomy teams on system integration and performance optimization Build and maintain internal and developer tooling that acts as a force multiplier across the organization Required Qualification 8+ years of software engineering with 3+ years in technical leadership roles Track record delivering production robotic systems, IoT devices, or autonomous systems at scale Experience designing reliable systems for B2B/enterprise deployments On-device platform expertise: OS configuration, device drivers, system services, networking stack configuration Robotics middleware: ROS/ROS2, real-time systems, sensor integration Infrastructure: Containerization (Docker/K8s), CI/CD pipelines, monitoring/observability Nice to have Collaborative robots (Universal Robots UR5E or similar cobots) Over-the-air update systems and remote device management at scale Background in manufacturing/production environments Track record at high-growth hardware/robotics startups Cloud experience: AWS/GCP/Azure Full-stack development: Backend services (Python/C++), APIs, database design, web interfaces Chef is an early-stage startup where equity is a major part of the compensation package. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. In addition to salary and early-stage equity, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, commuter benefits, flexible paid time off (PTO), catered lunch, and 401(k) matching. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.