Please note this is a hybrid role expected in office (SF) on Tues and Thurs.
At Glacier, we are taking on one of the world’s most pressing problems: trash. Did you know that in the US, we send over half of our recyclables to the landfill? We're hoping to fix that. In doing so, we’ll also be reducing carbon emissions, energy consumption, and depletion of natural resources.
Glacier builds custom sorting robots designed to sort apart recyclables as well as AI-powered business analytics that enable recyclers to superpower their plants and improve our society’s circularity. These two products together are helping to divert tons of recyclables (literally!) from landfills every day.
About us:
Our founders come from Facebook engineering and Bain consulting.
We’re backed by top-tier VCs with extensive technical and industry expertise.
We have a fleet in production and a robust pipeline of upcoming deployments.
Key Responsibilities:
Collaborate with our software team on core software development for robotic systems, including motion planning, decision algorithms, database management, cloud infrastructure, and system architecture.
Plan, write, review, and test code for robotic applications; participate in code reviews and design sessions; devise strategies to debug and generally improve the quality of our software.
Project manage your own work and the work of other engineers around you; design roadmaps and timelines around metric-based goals.
Partner with our founding team on the long-term product roadmap; we have lots of ideas for what waste-ending technology to build next, and we'd love to hear yours too!
What you Bring:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or equivalent work experience
3+ years of professional experience designing and developing complex codebases for robotics or hardware systems
Hands-on experience developing software for physical hardware systems (sensors, actuators, robotic arms, automation equipment, etc.)
Demonstrated ability to proactively manage the development of large portions of a codebase
3+ years of experience with Linux and coding with Python
AWS familiarity (cloud infrastructure, serverless functions, databases, etc)
Nice to have
Experience with C++
Experience with ROS (Robot Operating System) or similar robotics frameworks
Familiarity with computer vision or machine learning applications in robotics
Why Join Us?
Mission-Driven Work – Be part of a company dedicated to sustainability and ending waste.
Robotics Innovation – Build software that powers real-world robotics systems making a tangible environmental impact.
Fast-Paced Growth – Help scale and optimize a cutting-edge robotics fleet in the recycling industry.
If you're excited about building robust software for deployed robotics systems and solving complex technical challenges at the intersection of hardware and software, we'd love to hear from you!
The total cash compensation range for this role is $140,000 - $160,000. In addition to cash compensation, Glacier also offers competitive equity compensation and benefits. The final compensation for this role will depend on many individualized factors, including job-related skills and knowledge, experience level, interview performance, and other factors.
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What We Do
Glacier's mission is to end waste. Sound ambitious? We agree. But the UN estimates that we only have until 2030 to change our consumption patterns before we do irreversible damage to the environment, so we’re of the opinion that now is the time for big bets.
We’re starting in the world of recycling, which has a huge opportunity for impact. Americans send 1.4 million tons of waste to recycling facilities every week (that’s about 4 Empire State Buildings, or 1.5 Golden Gate Bridges). We’re also really bad at it: 25% of what we put in our recycling bins isn’t even recyclable. These recycling facilities make a living by sorting our jumbled-up waste and they need to do it cheaply and accurately. Otherwise they go out of business and our recycling goes straight to the landfill. Even so, recycling facilities today use processes that are highly manual, expensive, and error prone. We plan to revolutionize the way these facilities use technology, to make them more streamlined, accurate, and profitable - which means more recyclables avoid the landfill, and more of our natural resources are protected.
Our growing team draws from the brightest and most passionate professionals across robotics, manufacturing, software, AI, and market strategy. We’re united by our deep-rooted passion to make a big environmental impact, and we’re looking for other mission-driven, creative thinkers to help us right the ship on this truly global issue.
