Senior Software Engineer, C++ Development (Robotics)

Agtonomy

South San Francisco, CA, United States

Posted on: 2025-09-11

Category: agritech

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Senior

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Agtonomy is an AI and software services company specializing in intelligent automation for agriculture, turf, and beyond. Through partnerships with leading equipment manufacturers, Agtonomy's platform is embedded into industrial machinery to enable automation in complex, real-world environments. Its platform boosts efficiency, safety, and sustainability, while allowing operators to retain command over every task.

About Us

At Agtonomy, we’re not just building tech—we’re transforming how vital industries get work done. Our Physical AI and fleet services turn heavy machinery into intelligent, autonomous systems that tackle the toughest challenges in agriculture, turf, and beyond. Partnering with industry-leading equipment manufacturers, we’re creating a future where labor shortages, environmental strain, and inefficiencies are relics of the past. Our team is a tight-knit group of bold thinkers—engineers, innovators, and industry experts—who thrive on turning audacious ideas into reality. If you want to shape the future of industries that matter, this is your shot.

About the Role

We are looking for expert software engineers to join our growing team. You will play a critical role in developing a cutting-edge autonomous platform deployed in the real world and building a distributed system that spans cloud, app, on-premise, and edge computing. You will be working on challenging projects that push the boundaries of what autonomous machines can do in the field. In this role, you’ll help contribute to various parts of the stack including calibration, configuration, state management, simulation, interfaces, platform and other various layers of a complex robotic system.

Benefits

• 100% covered medical, dental, and vision for the employee (partner, children, or family is additional)

• Commuter Benefits

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

• Life Insurance

• Short- and Long-Term Disability

• 401k Plan

• Stock Options

• Collaborative work environment working alongside passionate mission-driven team!

Our interview process is generally conducted in five (5) phases:

1. Phone Screen with Hiring Manager (30 minutes)

2. Technical Evaluation in Domain (1 hour)

3. Software Engineering Evaluation (1 hour)

4. Panel Interview (Video interviews scheduled with key stakeholders, each interview will be 30 to 60 minutes)

What you'll be doing

Design and implement software components within Agtonomy’s on-vehicle and off-vehicle stack.

Elevate production code quality by promoting best practices, conducting thorough code reviews, and mentoring junior developers.

Proactively identify and address technical challenges to deliver high-performance, reliable full-stack solutions.

Partner with other software engineers, hardware engineers and operations teams to translate loose-end product objectives into shippable solutions.

Design innovative software tools to help accelerate developer velocity and provide visibility to internal systems

What you'll bring

Deep expertise in and passion for designing and developing software systems for physical things.

Minimum of 5 years of experience in software engineering and a demonstrated ability to ship code on production systems.

Highly proficient in modern C++.

Experience with modern software development practices (Git, CI/CD, code review) and automated testing and validation methodologies.

Passion for rigorous, modern, maintainable software.

Broad understanding of modern software engineering principles

What makes you a strong fit

You’ve built cloud-to-edge systems, ensuring seamless data flow between distributed components.

Knowledge of robotics, automotive or embedded systems software development, including real-time constraints and hardware interfaces.

Experience working with, developing, and deploying cloud services, databases, and web APIs.

You’re passionate about sustainable agriculture and excited to see your code run on real systems in the field

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