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# Sr. Embedded Software Engineer,  Robotics Platform at Serve Robotics

- **Company:** Serve Robotics
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $168k–$204k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/serverobotics/0b9f3986-9ae6-4361-85b5-2e1edc6e10e2

## Job description

At Serve Robotics, we’re reimagining how things move in cities. Our personable sidewalk robot is our vision for the future. It’s designed to take deliveries away from congested streets, make deliveries available to more people, and benefit local businesses. The Serve fleet has been delighting merchants, customers, and pedestrians along the way in Los Angeles, Miami, Dallas, Atlanta and Chicago while doing commercial deliveries. We’re looking for talented individuals who will grow robotic deliveries from surprising novelty to efficient ubiquity.

## Who We Are

We are tech industry veterans in software, hardware, and design who are pooling our skills to build the future we want to live in. We are solving real-world problems leveraging robotics, machine learning and computer vision, among other disciplines, with a mindful eye towards the end-to-end user experience. Our team is agile, diverse, and driven. We believe that the best way to solve complicated dynamic problems is collaboratively and respectfully.

## Responsibilities

- Design, develop, test, and maintain robotics middleware and application frameworks using modern C++ on embedded Linux.
- Own significant platform components from technical design and implementation through validation, deployment, and operation across Serve’s robot fleet.
- Partner with software teams using the robot platform to identify reliability, performance, and developer experience problems and deliver reusable solutions.
- Collaborate with Autonomy and Systems Engineering on risk assessments, failure analysis, fault-handling strategies, and software architecture.
- Translate system-level safety and reliability requirements into software behavior, interfaces, and verification strategies.
- Develop instrumentation, benchmarks, logging, tracing, and fleet-level metrics to measure and improve software performance, reliability, and system health.
- Diagnose and resolve complex system-level issues involving concurrency, scheduling, interprocess communication, networking, and constrained compute resources.
- Evaluate technical tradeoffs and contribute to architectural decisions that improve the scalability, maintainability, and reliability of the robotics platform.
- Lead technical design and code reviews and contribute to engineering standards, development practices, and technical documentation.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers through design discussions, problem solving, and knowledge sharing.

## Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience developing production software in modern C++ (C++17 and newer).
- Experience developing and debugging systems software in embedded Linux environments.
- Strong understanding of multithreaded programming, concurrency, synchronization, interprocess communication, and systems-level software development.
- Experience designing software for latency-sensitive, safety-related, real-time, or high-reliability systems.
- Experience profiling and optimizing embedded software for performance, reliability, and resource utilization.
- Experience independently owning complex software components through design, implementation, testing, and deployment.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with demonstrated ability to diagnose complex issues across software and hardware boundaries.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across software, systems, and hardware engineering teams.

What Makes You Stand Out

- Experience developing middleware for robotics, autonomous vehicles, or similar complex systems.
- Experience developing and deploying production software on NVIDIA Jetson or similar embedded computing platforms.
- Knowledge of Linux internals, scheduling, resource management, device interfaces, and interprocess communication mechanisms.
- Experience with fault-tolerant architecture, failure-mode analysis, functional safety, or safety-related software development.
- Experience with distributed systems, networking, RPC frameworks, or serialization technologies such as Protocol Buffers, FlatBuffers, or Cap’n Proto.
- Experience developing telemetry, observability, health monitoring, or diagnostic capabilities for robotics or distributed device fleets.
- Experience integrating software with sensors, embedded hardware, or other robotic system components.

Additional Information: This role works across multiple engineering disciplines and balances hands-on software development with systems-level problem solving, technical design, and cross-functional collaboration. The position may occasionally require access to robotics hardware or onsite participation in integration, testing, troubleshooting, or validation activities.

## About Serve Robotics

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Serve Robotics develops and operates AI-powered, low-emission autonomous sidewalk robots for last-mile delivery, primarily for food and retail.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NASDAQ: SERV, IPO March 2024)
- **Headquarters**: Los Angeles, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021 (spun out of Postmates / Uber)
- **Founders**: Ali Kashani (Co-founder, CEO), Touraj Parang (Co-founder, President & COO), Euan Abraham (Co-founder & VP of Software), Dmitry Demeshchuk (Co-founder & VP of Product and Design)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Autonomous vehicle technology / Robotics / Last-mile delivery logistics
- **Target customers**: B2B — enterprise partners like Uber Eats and 7-Eleven; also directly serves restaurants and local businesses via robots
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “We go beyond self interest, always taking our community into account. We empower each other with trust and autonomy to solve big problems and build a sustainable future.”

## Products & Services
- **Serve Autonomous Delivery Robot**: Level 4 autonomous sidewalk robot designed for contactless delivery. Cargo capacity suitable for food and small goods, operates at walking speed, 98% lower CO₂ emissions than a car.
- **Delivery-as-a-Service**: End-to-end robotic delivery service integrated with Uber Eats and other platforms. Robots are deployed in fleets, managed remotely by Serve’s operations team.
- **Proprietary Autonomy Software & Data Flywheel**: End-to-end perception, planning, and control stack trained on real-world delivery data.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: ~$336.6 million (as of mid-2025) – market cap fluctuates with stock price (currently ~$7.95/share)
- **Key Metric** (Private funding & public revenue): Total Funding $397.7 million; Annual Revenue ~$2.7 million (based on 2024/2025 data)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: NVIDIA (lead investor in venture round), Uber (corporate round & commercial partner), Magna International (manufacturing partner), 7-Eleven (enterprise customer)
- **Growth Signals**: Fleet grew to 400+ robots across five U.S. metros (LA, Miami, Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago); over 100,000 deliveries completed; signed contract with Uber Eats to deploy up to 2,000 robots; headcount grew 102.9% YoY to 303 employees; active job postings up 43.9% YoY.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Level 4 autonomy**: One of the first AV companies to achieve true Level 4 autonomy in sidewalk delivery.
- **Low‑emission, pedestrian‑scale design**: Robots emit 98% less CO₂, weigh 90% less, and have 99% less kinetic energy than a car — enabling regulatory acceptance and community goodwill.
- **Exclusive partnerships**: Multi‑year commercial agreement with Uber Eats (up to 2,000 robots) and presence on 7-Eleven’s delivery network.
- **Manufacturing scale**: Partnership with Magna International (Tier 1 automotive supplier) ensures high‑volume production quality.
- **Patent portfolio**: CEO Ali Kashani holds 26+ patents in robotics and AI.

## Strategic Focus
- **Nationwide scale‑up**: Expanding to additional U.S. markets beyond the current five metros.
- **Fleet density**: Increasing robot count per market to improve service economics and delivery density.
- **Data flywheel**: Using real‑world delivery data to improve autonomy, reduce cost per mile, and unlock new use cases.
- **Manufacturing ramp**: Scaling production line with Magna to reduce unit cost and increase deployment speed.
- **New verticals**: Exploring grocery, retail, and other last‑mile categories beyond restaurant delivery.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & values**: Mission‑driven, collaborative, trust‑based culture. Core values include “Deliver delight,” “Empower people,” and “Be mission driven.” Employees report high autonomy and a focus on sustainability.
- **Growth trajectory**: Headcount grew 102% in the last year; 59 active job postings across engineering, operations, product, and finance.
- **Work environment**: Hybrid/office presence in Los Angeles (HQ); operations roles require field work. Remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated but likely flexible for engineering.
- **Notable perks & recognition**: Fast Company “15 Tech Startups to Watch” (2022), TED Conference featured talk (2020), EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Bay Area Award (2025). Strong alumni pipeline from Uber, Cruise, Apple, Amazon — learning from top robotics talent.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on building safe, real‑world autonomous systems. Tech stack includes AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and cloud infrastructure.

## Sources
1. [serverobotics.com](https://www.serverobotics.com/)
2. [serverobotics.com/company](https://www.serverobotics.com/company/index.html)
3. [serverobotics.com/careers](https://www.serverobotics.com/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/serverobotics](https://www.linkedin.com/company/serverobotics)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/serverobotics](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/serverobotics)

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