Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Software Systems)
Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Software Engineering · Robotics & Automation
In short
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement core platform components, including robotics SDKs, cloud-hosted APIs, edge runtimes, and agent orchestration frameworks.
- Design the platform's extensibility and integration architecture for first- and third-party capabilities, models, and hardware.
- Build production-grade data infrastructure for the full robotics lifecycle, supporting real-world and synthetic data at scale.
- Own cross-cutting platform concerns like authentication, authorization, API versioning, and multi-tenant isolation.
- Drive the developer experience by defining CLI, SDK patterns, documentation, and sample code.
- Collaborate with autonomy, simulation, and evaluation teams to meet performance and reliability requirements for ML training and evaluation.
- Lead technical design reviews, write architecture decision records, and establish engineering practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, OR equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Desired Qualifications
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience, OR Bachelor’s Degree AND 12+ years technical engineering experience, OR equivalent experience.
- 6+ years of experience designing and building developer platforms, SDKs, APIs, or distributed infrastructure.
- Deep expertise in cloud-native systems engineering (microservice architecture, Kubernetes, service mesh, API gateway patterns, CI/CD on Azure).
- Proficiency in C++, Rust, or Go for systems-level components AND Python for tooling, data pipelines, and ML integration.
- Demonstrated ability to make and communicate architectural trade-offs.
- Experience with robotics middleware (ROS/ROS2), real-time systems, or edge computing platforms.
- Familiarity with ML infrastructure (model serving, training orchestration, experiment tracking).
- Experience building simulation infrastructure, digital twin platforms, or CI-based testing pipelines.
- Prior work designing multi-tenant platforms with partner-facing APIs.
- Understanding of agentic AI architectures and their application to physical systems.
- Contributions to open-source robotics, cloud, or developer tooling projects, or published work.
Benefits
- USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year base pay range across the U.S.
- USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year base pay range for San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area.
- Eligibility for additional benefits and compensation.
Skills
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Company
MicrosoftJob Posted
4 days ago
Employment Type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Salary
US$142,800–274,800 · Negotiable
Hours per week
32
Experience Level
Mid-Senior
Locations
United States
Qualification
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