Apptronik is building robots for the real world to improve human quality of life and to help solve the ever-increasing labor shortage problem. Our team has been building some of the most advanced robots on the planet for years, dating back to the DARPA Robotics Challenge. We apply our expertise across the full robotics stack to some of the most important and impactful problems our society faces, and expect our products and technology to change the world for the better. We value passion, creativity, and collaboration to help us overcome existing technological barriers in the industry to create truly innovative products.
You will join a team developing state-of-the-art general-purpose robots designed to operate in human spaces and with human tools. It is designed to work alongside humans, mobilize to human spaces, and manipulate the world around it.
JOB SUMMARY
We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to own and maintain the deployment of our cloud-based infrastructure to customer sites. In this role, you will work closely with our Applications Engineers, IT, and software teams to ensure the smooth deployment of our solution which collects training data and deploys models to real-time robotic systems. Providing a reliable framework will accelerate progress integrating Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics Model to humanoid robot hardware.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES or KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Partnering with customers and Applications Engineers to remove roadblocks to deployment success
- Writing and fixing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm, Ansible)
- Developing and maintaining code in Python / Typescript
- Troubleshooting networking, performance, and security challenges
- Collaborating with engineering and product teams to shape improvements
- Responding to outages, participating in on-call rotations and traveling occasionally to customer sites to support deployment and integration
SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS
- Strong communication skills, customer empathy and flexibility to adapt
- Hands-on Linux systems engineering and networking experience
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Helm, Ansible)
- Development experience in Kubernetes / Python / Typescript / C++
- Experience creating intuitive and high-utility dashboards and vizualizations (Grafana)
- Integrating real-time monitoring and alerting (eg PagerDuty)
- Takes initiative and seeks ownership of the end-to-end infrastructure solution
- Willingness to travel as needed for client support
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Minimum of 5 years of professional, full-time experience building and maintaining reliable, scalable systems.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
- Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times
- Vision to read printed materials and a computer screen
- Hearing and speech to communicate
*This is a direct hire. Please, no outside Agency solicitations.
Apptronik provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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