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title: "Senior/Staff Autonomy Software Generalist"
company: "Relay Robotics"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/relay-robotics"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/relay-robotics-senior-staff-autonomy-software-generalist-6cc2173d-1582-42d1-8700-8118aca11957"
apply_url: "https://jobs.lever.co/relayrobotics.com/4ad6c698-048e-4a80-9d5e-ce1863121457"
workplace: onsite
location: "San Jose, CA"
employment_type: unspecified
seniority: staff
role: ai-machine-learning
region: united-states
salary: "$125,000–$200,000 per year"
date_posted: 2026-09-22T21:59:20.474Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-22T22:08:58.551Z
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# Senior/Staff Autonomy Software Generalist

**Relay Robotics** · San Jose, CA

Salary: $125,000–$200,000 per year

Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/relayrobotics.com/4ad6c698-048e-4a80-9d5e-ce1863121457

## About the role

We’re looking for an autonomy software generalist to work across the full robotics stack — perception, localization, mapping, and planning — while collaborating closely with hardware, firmware, applications, and operations teams. This is a broad role suited to someone who thrives on solving problems end-to-end, from algorithm design to fleet-scale deployment, and who stays energized by the fast pace of advances in robotics and AI.

##### Responsibilities

- Design, implement, tune, and improve path and motion planning algorithms for safe, smooth, and continuous robot motion in large-scale, dynamic environments.

- Develop perception algorithms using both deep learning and classical geometric computer vision.

- Implement, tune, and maintain localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms, applying state-of-the-art ML approaches where they add value.

- Perform sensor selection and evaluation across lidar, cameras, and ToF sensors, balancing performance against cost and other constraints.

- Develop and maintain calibration algorithms for the above sensors.

- Help shape the autonomy roadmap by identifying technical gaps and risks, proposing prioritized initiatives, and translating them into milestones

- Build tooling and metrics to test, evaluate, and continuously improve fleet performance, including regression detection and proactive service triggers.

- Own high-quality software engineering practices: version control (GitHub), code review, CI/CD, and maintaining build and deployment pipelines.

- Work cross-functionally with hardware, firmware, applications, and operations teams to develop, ship, and scale new products.

##### Requirements

- Master’s degree in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

- 4 or more years developing production robotics or autonomy software.

- Strong proficiency in ROS, C++ and Python in a Linux environment.

- Hands-on experience implementing and tuning algorithms in two or more of: perception, path/motion planning, localization/mapping, sensor calibration.

- Experience with deploying deep learning models

- Solid software engineering fundamentals: Git, code review, CI/CD, and build pipeline maintenance.

- Practical experience working with real sensor data from lidar, cameras, and/or ToF sensors.

- Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and ship to real hardware.

##### Nice to Haves

- Familiarity with cutting-edge ML approaches to localization, mapping, and perception (e.g., object detection and tracking, learned features, visual place recognition).

- Experience with cloud-based or collaborative/lifelong SLAM systems.

- Experience with containerization and deployment tooling

- A track record of staying current with robotics and AI research and bringing new ideas into practice.

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