Staff Embedded Software Engineer, Safety Compute Platform at Bedrock Robotics

JOIN THE TEAM BRINGING ADVANCED AUTONOMY TO THE BUILT WORLD At Bedrock, we’re moving AI out of the lab and into the real world. Our team is composed of industry veterans who helped launch Waymo, scaled Segment to a $3.2B acquisition, and grew Uber Freight to $5B in revenue. Today, we’re deploying autonomous systems on heavy construction machinery across the country, accelerating project schedules of billion-dollar infrastructure projects and improving safety on job sites. Backed by $80M in funding, we’re working quickly to close the gap between America's surging demand for housing, data centers, manufacturing hubs, and the construction industry's growing labor shortage. This is where algorithms meet steel-toed boots. You’ll collaborate with construction veterans and world-class engineers to solve physical-world problems that simulations can’t touch. If you're ready to apply cutting-edge technology to solve meaningful problems alongside a talented team—we'd love to have you join us. The Role: The Onboard Infrastructure team is responsible for the base platform software and middleware running on our onboard computer and safety controller. From board bring-up through application development, we build our entire stack in Rust. We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our team to architect and develop the software for our Safety Controller. This ECU serves as the main interface to the machine, the safe fallback system for our autonomy stack, and the host of several other safety-critical functions. What You'll Do: - Architect the safety software for our safety ECU, ensuring strict isolation, deterministic real-time execution, and lock-step integrity. - Develop the full embedded software stack, including board bring-up, RTOS configuration, low-level drivers, network stack integration, middleware, and applications. - Implement safety-critical logic to monitor system health, manage state machines, and execute safe-stop maneuvers for heavy hydraulic machinery. - Champion the use of Rust in a safety-critical context, establishing coding standards and best practices that align with functional safety requirements (ISO 26262 / IEC 61508). - Work closely with Hardware Engineering on schematic reviews and component selection, and with the Systems Engineering team to define and validate the system. Required Qualifications: - 10+ years of embedded software experience, with a focus on robotics, automotive, or aerospace safety-critical systems. - Deep expertise in C++ or Rust with a willingness and excitement to work primarily in Rust. - Extensive experience with Real-Time Operating Systems (SafeRTOS, FreeRTOS) and low-level driver development (SPI, UART, CAN, Ethernet). - Practical experience developing software compliant with functional safety standards such as ISO 26262, IEC 61508, or DO-178C. - Deep understanding of multi-core embedded architectures (e.g., Arm Cortex-M / Cortex-R, Infineon TriCore), including memory protection units (MPU), interrupts, and lock-step execution. Preferred Qualifications: - Professional experience shipping embedded Rust code or experimenting with Rust on embedded targets. - Familiarity with automotive and robotics protocols such as CAN/CAN-FD, Ethernet/LWiP stacks, UDS/J1939, and embedded security (HSM/SHE). - Ability to read schematics, use oscilloscopes or logic analyzers, and debug complex hardware/software interactions. Our roles are often flexible. If you don't fit all the criteria, or are in another location (especially one where we have an office like SF or NY) please apply anyway! We'd love to consider you.