Software Engineer (Jetson)
At Mentee Robotics, we are redefining humanoid automation with an AI-first approach - combining perception, reasoning, and dexterous manipulation into fully autonomous systems that continuously learn and improve. We offer an exceptional opportunity to participate in building next-generation commercial humanoid robots from 0 to 1, alongside competitive compensation and an international engineering environment. We are expanding with a new robotics Engineering Center in China, working hand-in-hand with our engineering teams in headquarters. Its mission: to rapidly develop our next-generation full-size humanoid platform and bring it to production.
We are looking for a Jetson Software Engineer to own application-level software pipelines, GPU-accelerated middleware, sensor integration, high-throughput IPC, and edge AI deployment on NVIDIA AGX Jetson compute nodes powering our humanoid robot.
Who you are:
- Software engineer who thrives in modern C++, Python, GPU computing, parallel pipelines, and high-performance middleware on Linux/Jetson platforms.
- Hands-on practitioner who systematically diagnoses kernel panics, memory bottlenecks, latency spikes, and high-speed bus bottlenecks.
- Obsessed with zero-copy data pipelines, deterministic control timing, system stability, and optimized memory footprints.
- A strong collaborator across AI algorithm, perception, control, and hardware infrastructure teams.
What will your job look like:
- Architect and develop high-performance software applications and middleware running on NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin/Thor platforms for humanoid robotics.
- Design low-latency, deterministic multi-threaded software pipelines to achieve sub-millisecond control loop performance on the Jetson platform.
- Architect high-throughput, zero-copy video/sensor ingestion and pre-processing pipelines utilizing CUDA, TensorRT, VPI, and NvMedia frameworks.
- Integrate high-speed bus communication interfaces (PCIe, 10GbE, SocketCAN/CAN-FD, USB 3.2, SPI) for real-time sensor and actuator telemetry.
- Design system-level health monitoring, watchdog daemons, dynamic thermal/power throttling control, and automated system crash recovery.
- Establish automated CI/CD build environments, containerized deployment (Docker), and secure Over-The-Air (OTA) firmware update systems for Jetson compute nodes.
- Collaborate with AI teams to optimize memory transfer latencies (Zero-Copy, Unified Memory) between host CPU and CUDA GPU cores.
- Conduct deep system profiling, memory leak tracking, and thread contention analysis using NISO/Nsight, perf, and trace-cmd tools.
All you need is:
- B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical disciplines.
- 5+ years of software development experience on ARM/Linux edge platforms, specifically NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier / Orin modules.
- Proficient in Modern C++ (17/20) and Python with strong system and application programming skills in Linux environments.
- Solid experience with JetPack SDK, CUDA, TensorRT, VPI, and Linux user-space application development tools.
- Hands-on experience with PREEMPT_RT real-time Linux, POSIX multi-threading, shared memory IPC, and low-latency socket programming.
- Deep knowledge of hardware interfaces including PCIe, Ethernet, CAN-FD, MIPI-CSI2, SPI, I2C, and UART.
- Familiarity with Docker containerization, system service management, and Linux security models.
- Strong diagnostic skills with logic analyzers, protocol sniffers, and embedded profiling tools.
Nice to have:
- Experience with ROS 2 / DDS middleware optimization on Jetson edge platforms.
- Prior experience in autonomous driving, humanoid robotics, quadrupeds, or high-performance edge AI compute nodes.
- Knowledge of secure boot, hardware-accelerated encryption, and OTA update platforms (RAUC, Mender).
- Comfortable communicating technical topics in English with international teams.
