About Kovari
Kovari develops frontier technology to transform physical businesses. We partner with established operators to change how they run, and we build and operate businesses of our own through our subsidiaries.
We are a small team of builders, operators, and researchers. We deploy on site, alongside the businesses we serve, and iterate in the field. We have raised over $6M from leading investors.
We are based in San Francisco and work in person.
The Role
You will own the software foundation our robots run on, from the onboard runtime and drivers to networking, updates, and fleet reliability. When a robot is in the field, your code keeps it alive, fast, and recoverable.
What You'll Do
Build and maintain the onboard runtime, middleware, and real-time control loops
Write drivers and integrations for sensors, motor controllers, and compute
Own Linux, networking, and security on robots and edge devices
Build OTA updates, logging, monitoring, and remote diagnostics for the fleet
Profile and optimize latency, throughput, and resource use on edge hardware
Debug failures on deployed robots and harden the stack against them
What You Bring
Strong C++ or Rust, plus Python
Experience with real-time or embedded Linux systems
Familiarity with ROS 2 or similar robotics middleware
Experience with comms buses and protocols (CAN, EtherCAT, Ethernet, USB)
Comfort with networking, containers, and fleet deployment tooling
Bonus: robotics, autonomous vehicles, or drones in production
Bias toward action: ship fast, test on hardware, fix what breaks
Values
Pace of learning trumps everything.
Relentless refinement of our craft.
Low ego, high ownership.
All-in on the mission. We work in person, and this isn't a 9-to-5.
Skills Required
- Strong C++ or Rust programming skills, plus Python
- Experience with real-time or embedded Linux systems
- Familiarity with ROS 2 or similar robotics middleware
- Experience with communications buses and protocols, including CAN, EtherCAT, Ethernet, or USB
- Comfort with networking, containers, and fleet deployment tooling
- Experience in robotics, autonomous vehicles, or drones in production
What We Do
Kovari Industries is a venture-backed company that develops general-purpose robots for the hospitality industry to handle physical, repetitive work. They aim to marry deep commercial understanding with fast-paced innovation to create intelligent machines that move the economy. The company focuses on rapid iteration, engineering rigor, and deploying real machines into real environments to solve the last-mile problem of robot proliferation in businesses.
