Senior Platform Software Engineer

Bonsai Robotics • San Jose, CA

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About The Position

Bonsai Robotics is building the next generation of autonomy for agriculture and off-road environments. We are looking for a Senior Platform Software Engineer with a strong background in delivering stable, production-quality software to resource-constrained systems. In this role, you will help build the core vehicle software platform that deploys, runs, and monitors our full autonomy stack across real-world robotic systems. This is a high-impact role central to integrating our Robotics, Perception, Cloud, and Embedded systems into a reliable, unified platform.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong experience working with and deploying to headless Linux systems
• Proficiency in modern C++, Python, and build systems like CMake
• Hands-on experience with ROS 2
• Experience working with NVIDIA embedded systems (e.g., Orin, Xavier, Jetson family)

Nice To Haves

• Advanced C/C++ skills and deep ROS 2 knowledge
• Experience with embedded systems and physical hardware
• Background in writing or integrating device drivers
• Strong system-level programming and OS fundamentals
• Embedded Linux, kernel, or driver development
• Docker, SystemD, DDS
• GUI development with modern web frameworks (React, etc.)
• Hands-on experience integrating sensors, cameras, and hardware on NVIDIA platforms

Responsibilities

• Develop a robust, end-to-end robotic vehicle application as part of the Robotic Software Platform team
• Build on-vehicle and off-vehicle components that enable reliable robot operation
• Improve the build system, deployment pipelines, process orchestration, and health monitoring for the autonomy stack
• Enhance testing, testability, and documentation across software modules
• Build developer tools and workflows to accelerate iteration and debugging
• Optimize performance of existing components for embedded and constrained environments
• Define and maintain Linux host system configurations for on-vehicle compute
• Serve as a key integrator across Robotics, Computer Vision, Cloud, and Embedded teams—ensuring consistent interfaces and smooth system integration

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees