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The Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Software Systems) is a Principal level role within the Discovery and Quantum division. You will join the Microsoft Robotics team to design and build core infrastructure for a platform for physical intelligence, enabling humans, robots, and AI agents to collaborate. Your daily responsibilities include architecting robotics SDKs, cloud-hosted APIs, edge runtimes, and agent orchestration layers. You will build production-grade data infrastructure, instrumentation libraries, and developer tooling to support mission workflows. Required skills include proficiency in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. Preferred technologies include Rust, Go, Kubernetes, ROS/ROS2, ONNX, and TensorRT. You will solve complex problems regarding real-time robotic control loops, multi-tenant isolation, and sim-to-real transfer for autonomous systems.
Architect and implement robotics SDKs, cloud APIs, edge runtimes, and agent orchestration frameworks.
Design the platform's extensibility architecture for integrating first-party models, partner hardware, and customer logic.
Build production-grade data infrastructure for instrumentation, data acquisition, and dataset curation pipelines.
Manage cross-cutting platform concerns including authentication, multi-tenant isolation, and real-time performance.
Drive the developer experience by defining CLI patterns, SDK documentation, and inner-loop development workflows.
Ensure platform primitives meet performance and reliability requirements for ML training and sim-to-real transfer.
Lead technical design reviews and establish engineering practices to mentor senior engineers and improve code quality.
What we're looking for
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (or equivalent experience).
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including a Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience (preferred).
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 12+ years of technical engineering experience (preferred).
6+ years of experience designing and building developer platforms, SDKs, APIs, or distributed infrastructure with ownership of cross-team technical decisions (preferred).
Deep expertise in cloud-native systems engineering, including microservices, Kubernetes, service mesh, and CI/CD, preferably on Azure (preferred).
Proficiency in C++, Rust, or Go for systems-level components and Python for tooling and ML integration (preferred).
Experience with robotics middleware (ROS/ROS2), real-time systems, edge computing, ML infrastructure, or simulation platforms (preferred).
Robotics
Embodied AI
System Software
Linux
Embedded Software
Distributed Computing
Real-time Systems
Hardware-in-the-loop
Simulation
Firmware
Device Drivers
Performance Optimization
Sensor Integration
Foundation Models
Reinforcement Learning