- Workplace
- Remote
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Seniority
- Lead
- Education
- Master
- Source
- RecruiterFlow
Description
Droyd builds autonomous robots for data center operations — GPU repairs, precision cabling, SSD replacements — solving genuinely hard dexterous tasks in controlled industrial environments. The company is building a 6-DOF robotic arm on a mobile base that automates routine tasks in data centers, with a vertically integrated hardware and software stack.
Backed by Lux, Refactor, and Ravelin with $3.4M raised, Droyd is a team of 12 engineers. The code you write ships directly to deployed robots.
The Opportunity
Droyd is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build the Rust services, real-time streaming pipelines, and fleet infrastructure that connect models to motors. This is a generalist role — problems come up as they come up, and the team wants someone with a top-down problem-solving mindset rather than a narrow niche focus. You will own your systems end-to-end and ship code that runs on deployed robots in live data centers.
What You'll Do
- • Build and maintain the core Rust codebase powering Droyd's robotic systems, from inverse kinematic solvers to real-time control loops and fleet infrastructure
- • Develop and improve the teleop system (currently built on Meta Quest controllers) that enables remote robot operation and scalable data collection
- • Work on firmware and low-level systems to improve robot stability, reliability, and performance
- • Integrate sensors, cameras, and hardware systems across the full robot stack, working closely with firmware and mechanical engineering teams
- • Take ownership of problems as they arise: streaming pipelines, ROS2 integrations, hardware control interfaces, data collection infrastructure, and more
- • Contribute to the software cleanup and hardening needed to deploy into live data centers
You Should Have
- • 3+ years of software engineering experience, ideally on systems that run on real hardware
- • Strong Rust or C++ skills for real-time or embedded systems
- • Comfort working across the full stack — from firmware and hardware interfaces up to fleet infrastructure and data pipelines
- • A top-down problem-solving mindset; you can take an ambiguous problem and drive it to a working system
- • Willingness to own systems end-to-end with no handoffs
Nice to Have
- • Experience with ROS2 or similar robotics middleware
- • Background in teleop systems, real-time control, or robot kinematics
- • Experience working in production robotics or industrial automation environments
