Robotics Software Engineer III - Infrastructure

ArcBest is hiring a Robotics Software Engineer III to build and standardize the infrastructure that powers the full lifecycle of autonomous robotics software and models.

Responsibilities

• Design and enable shared infrastructure across the robotics software lifecycle: Source, Build, Test, Simulate, Deploy, Monitor
• Standardize build systems and CI/CD pipelines for robotics software, embedded systems, and simulation environments
• Define and manage artifact versioning for binaries, firmware, configuration, calibration data, maps, and vehicle-specific parameters
• Establish platform standards, reference architectures, and best practices used across multiple product teams
• Enable large-scale Software-in-the-Loop (SIL), Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL), and regression simulation workflows
• Integrate simulation results into CI with clear pass/fail criteria and reporting
• Support scenario-based testing, coverage tracking, and regression analysis
• Collaborate with simulation and vehicle integration teams to improve correlation between simulation outputs and real-world vehicle behavior
• Design and evolve shared infrastructure for the ML model lifecycle used in autonomy systems
• Enable dataset versioning, lineage tracking, training reproducibility, and model promotion workflows
• Define standards for model packaging, vehicle deployment, runtime monitoring, and rollback mechanisms
• Partner with perception and autonomy teams to support safe, performant model deployment while domain teams retain ownership of model design and performance outcomes
• Build and maintain pipelines for deploying software and models to development vehicles, test fleets, and production systems
• Enable vehicle-level observability using logging, metrics, and distributed tracing
• Support fast diagnosis of field issues and ensure feedback loops into development, testing, and simulation environments
• Provide traceability for safety-critical systems, including identifying what software, model, and configuration ran on a specific vehicle at a given time
• Support functional safety needs by enabling reproducible builds, preserving validation evidence, and supporting audits and certification activities (e.g., ISO 3691-4, ISO 13849)
• Collaborate with Functional Safety Engineering to align infrastructure with compliance and certification requirements
• Act as a force multiplier by reducing duplicated tooling and infrastructure maintenance overhead
• Make pragmatic trade-offs among development velocity, system reliability, and safety requirements
• Mentor engineers on platform usage, infrastructure best practices, and scalable system design
• Influence technical direction across teams without direct people management responsibility
• Other duties and projects as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field (required)
• Hands-on experience with Linux-based systems and containerized environments (required)
• Experience with CI/CD, build tooling, and artifact management solutions (required)
• Experience supporting complex, distributed, real-time, or hardware-integrated systems (required)

Technologies

• Linux-based systems
• Containerized environments
• CI/CD
• Artifact management solutions
• Bitbucket
• Jira automation
• MLOps
• Dataset versioning
• Model versioning
• Deployment pipelines
• ROS
• ROS2
• Software-in-the-Loop (SIL)
• Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL)
• Distributed tracing

Experience (Preferred)

• 4 years of experience in software infrastructure, platform engineering, or DevOps roles (preferred)

Education (Preferred)

• Master’s Degree or equivalent industry experience in robotics, autonomous systems, or distributed systems (preferred)

Additional Requirements (Preferred/Relevant)

• Exposure to simulation-heavy environments or systems that integrate tightly with physical hardware
• Experience in robotics, autonomous systems, or embedded software development (preferred)
• Experience with SIL and HIL testing methodologies (preferred)
• Experience working in safety-critical or regulated environments (preferred)
• Understanding of vehicle systems, sensors, and real-world deployment constraints (preferred)

Location

• Boston, MA (onsite)

Benefits

• Salary position paid biweekly

Work Hours

• Generally 8:00 am - 5:00 pm with occasional irregular hours depending on workload

Travel Requirements

• Occasional travel (25% - 50%) to support field testing and collaboration