Founding Software Engineer, Robotics Infrastructure

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• Role: Engineering / Backend
• School year: Sophomore and above
• Visa: US citizen/visa only

Lambda Robotics builds autonomous systems for physical infrastructure. We’re looking for a founding software engineer to build the platform that turns individual robots into a secure, reliable fleet deployable across many customers and sites.

What you’ll own

• Build the infrastructure for managing and operating fleets of robots
• Design robot registration, identity, authentication, and access-control systems
• Build secure multi-tenant architecture that isolates each customer’s robots and data
• Develop remote deployment, configuration, software updates, and rollback systems
• Build logging, monitoring, alerting, and incident-recovery infrastructure
• Develop APIs and customer interfaces for commanding robots and viewing their status
• Build reliable pipelines for robot telemetry, video, logs, and operational data
• Work closely with robotics engineers to productionize teleoperation, autonomy, and data collection
• Define the architecture needed to scale from a few robots to thousands

What we’re looking for

• Deep experience building backend, distributed, cloud, or device-management systems
• Comfortable working across Linux, networking, APIs, databases, and deployment infrastructure
• Ability to design reliable systems that interact with real physical hardware
• Strong ownership and comfort working in a fast-moving, early-stage environment

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