Robotics Senior Software Engineer - Agentic Coding and Software Infrastructure

Job Title: Robotics Senior Software Engineer - Agentic Coding and Software Infrastructure

Department: Robotics Software Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

FLSA: Exempt

Location: Pensacola, FL – Onsite

Persona AI is developing and commercializing rugged, multi-purpose humanoid robots that perform real work. Persona AI’s founding team has a decades-long history in humanoid robotics, bionics, and product development delivering robust hardware that has touched the stars, worked miles below the surface of the ocean, and even roamed Disney Parks. Our mission is focused squarely on shipping beautiful, reliable products at massive scale, while building a customer-focused team to achieve these aims.

Why Join Persona AI?

• We offer competitive compensation, a performance-based bonus, 99% employer covered medical benefits, early-stage equity, competitive PTO, and a company-wide paid winter break between December 24th and January 2nd.

• You’ll shape technology that’s redefining the possibilities of robotics and human interaction.

• Work alongside passionate teammates who value creativity, collaboration, and continuous learning.

• Enjoy full access to advanced tools, hardware labs, and the freedom to push the boundaries of what robots can do.

We are looking for a Robotics Senior Software Engineer - Agentic Coding and Software Infrastructure, to join our Pensacola team onsite. We’re looking for exceptional people who dream big, thrive on challenges, and love seeing their designs come to life.

• Explore best practices in agentic programming and work with the teams to develop agentic programming frameworks, standards, and conventions to ensure productive deployment across the company.

• Become proficient in agentic programming and stay informed on the field in order to best understand the pros and cons, new offerings, etc.

• Develop and deploy agentic tools (e.g. agentic code review, health monitors, architecture diagrams, documentation improvers) for improving software quality across the organization.

• Develop software tools and procedures that improve product quality, efficiency, and engineering quality of life.

• Collaborate closely with locomotion, teleop, perception, machine learning, manipulation, continuous integration, and other Persona AI software teams. Propose and develop software for the needs of the various teams throughout the organization.

• Review software architectures, frameworks, and code. Give feedback and advice on how to improve various software.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in robotics software and systems architecture.

• Focus approximately 50% of effort on agentic programming frameworks, standards, and tooling and about 50% of effort contributing towards specific software tools and modules.

• PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field.

• 7+ years of experience in developing robotics software platforms or related systems.

• Solid understanding of core robotics principles, including kinematics, controls, simulation, logging, visualization, software deployment, and robot operation.

• Proficiency in Rust, C++, Python, and/or Java and relevant robotics middleware, such as comms protocols, gui frameworks, third party software packages.

• Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining robot APIs.

• Deep understanding of operating systems concepts and real-time systems.

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced startup environment.

• Strong background in software architecture and systems design.

• Experience with embedded systems and real-time operating systems.

• Experience with containerization and deployment technologies (e.g., Docker).

• Experience with automated testing and continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD).

• Experience with simulation environments for testing system integration.

• Experience in a humanoid robot startup environment.

Persona AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.