Senior Software Engineer - Customer Success and Enablement Engineering

Scaled Foundations is a robotics AI research and deployment start-up company building an industry leading platform for general robot intelligence. Our mission is to enable rapid, robust, and safe deployment of general intelligence for autonomous systems and robotics, aspiring to become the starting point for AI-powered autonomous systems across a diverse set of scenarios and robotics modalities. 

What you’ll be doing: 

We are currently seeking an experienced engineer to lead our customer-facing engineering efforts which deploys our technology for real world applications. You will play a pivotal role in designing and implementing the platform and seamlessly integrate cutting-edge components across the platform, machine learning, and robotics into a cloud-based platform that will be served and used at a large scale and across multiple robotic domains including air, ground, sub-surface, manipulators, etc. Components will include our SDK, simulation, synthetic environments, and robotics, all deployed to the intended customer environment. 

Lead the development and deployment of GRID to enterprise customers, enabling a robust and scalable development platform for Robotics hosted either locally, on customer’s cloud, or on a Scaled Foundations cloud instance as a managed service for the customer.

• Interact with customer technical teams to validate  sound solutions and capture requirements around custom robotic forms and synthetic environments for simulation.

• Collaborate with the internal infrastructure, platform, robot and machine learning teams to ensure seamless integration of frontend and backend components.

• Provide feedback to internal development teams and assist as necessary with core product development.

• Provide direction to our off-shore Unreal Engine development team as it pertains to custom customer environments.

• Independently drive continuous improvement in performance, scalability, and reliability for the platform which is expected to serve a large user base. 

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 5-10+ years of full-time software development experience.

• Hands-on with game-based development engines (Unity/Unreal),

• Understanding of scenery creation (both geo-specific and fictional environments), and implementation of in-game actors to include animations and physics. 

• Cloud deployment experience for Azure, AWS, Oracle, or Google Cloud

• Proficiency in some of the following:  Java, C++, Go, or Rust, Python, and expertise in TypeScript or JavaScript within React.

• Knowledge of best practices for developing production grade systems:

  • Frontend, backend, and database security

  • Continuous development, testing, deployment, and monitoring cycles

  • Understanding of networking and distributed system concepts and best practices

• Customer facing project experience

• Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Kubernetes and enabling scalable services across distributed systems.

• Working knowledge of resources needed for workloads like video streaming, and distributed machine learning inference.

• Experience working with sensitive data and adhering to strict security protocols. 

Note: This is a fully in-person role located in the Seattle area but there may be a lower percentage of travel as required.