Software Engineer, Robotics Platform (Rust)

About the Role

You'll work alongside robotics engineers on a Rust-based haptic robotics and teleoperation platform, with a focus on code quality, stability, and maintainability. The robotics domain knowledge lives with the team. Your job is to make sure the code surrounding it is solid, well-tested, and easy to evolve. You'll also participate in hardware integration work: setting up communication protocols and helping diagnose communication and firmware issues for custom in-house hardware. You'll collaborate closely with the engineers who own the control side.

What You'll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain core components of HARP, our Rust-based robotics platform.
• Build reliable software that connects Haply devices with industrial robots and external systems.
• Design clean, maintainable APIs and plugin architectures for future platform expansion.
• Integrate new hardware by implementing communication layers and debugging protocol-level issues.
• Collaborate closely with robotics and firmware engineers to diagnose hardware and communication problems.
• Improve software quality through testing, code reviews, documentation, and thoughtful architecture.
• Optimize concurrency, performance, and system reliability across the platform.
• Contribute to cross-stack development involving Rust, Tauri, TypeScript, and React.
• Participate in architecture discussions and continuously improve the long-term health of the codebase.

Who You Are

• 3–5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• At least 2 years of experience developing production software in Rust.
• Strong understanding of modern Rust, including ownership, lifetimes, traits, error handling, and concurrency.
• Experience building systems-level software with clean API design and maintainable architecture.
• Comfortable debugging hardware communication and working with networking or communication protocols.
• Experience designing, testing, and maintaining production-quality software.
• Familiarity with Git, code review workflows, automated testing, and collaborative software development.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work across software, robotics, firmware, and hardware teams.

Bonus Points

• Experience with robotics, haptics, teleoperation, or motion control systems.
• Experience with Tauri, TypeScript, or React.
• Familiarity with plugin architectures, shared libraries, or FFI.
• Experience with Protobuf or other serialization formats.
• Experience profiling and optimizing high-performance software.
• Familiarity with Linux, Windows, and cross-platform development.
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD and DevOps workflows.
• Interest in Physical AI and human-machine interaction.

Why You'll Love Working Here

• Build the software platform powering the next generation of Physical AI.
• Work directly with real robots, haptic devices, and cutting-edge hardware.
• Shape the architecture of HARP as it evolves into a production robotics platform.
• Collaborate with world-class robotics, firmware, hardware, and software engineers.
• Ship software that's used by leading robotics companies.