Sr. to Staff Embedded Controls Software Engineer - Autonomous Robotics
Company: Skyrocket Ventures
Location: San Francisco, CA (Remote)
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-10-21
About this role
Sr. to Staff Embedded Controls Software Engineer - Autonomous Robotics
San Francisco, CA (you can work from home up to 2x/week)
The team builds small, lightweight autonomous delivery drones with safety-first hardware designed to operate around people and everyday urban infrastructure. The work has a positive impact on the sustainability, access, and cost of everyday necessities.
You would be working in the company's office in San Francisco. You could work from home up to 2x/week.
You would be joining an elite group of about 60 people and 20 engineers inside a much larger public company. This org operates as a small, fast-moving hardware innovation lab: minimal bureaucracy, real build/test cycles, and ownership of systems that ship and operate at a very large scale.
In this position, you would be developing and deploying closed-loop control algorithms and embedded C/C++ firmware for robotic systems, including motion control, motor control, and sensor integration. You would be owning the development, bring-up, and debugging of ARM-based microcontroller platforms, working with bare-metal and RTOS-based systems. You would be collaborating closely with electrical, mechanical, and software engineers to build reliable, production-ready electromechanical systems.
The company has a compensation range based on experience, with salary of $180k-$285k, plus RSUs translating into total first year compensation of $300k-$540k.
Job Responsibilities:
- Owning the control bring-up and integration for new embedded platforms (e.g. ARM Cortex-M series).
- Developing and maintain bare-metal firmware and RTOS-based applications for robotic subsystems (motor control, sensors, telemetry, power systems).
- Writing and maintaining robust, maintainable, and well-documented C/C++ code for embedded targets.
- Collaborating with the electrical engineering team on hardware bring-up, schematic review, and system integration.
- Contributing to system bringup, validation, and d...