Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Developer Tools and Productivity

Position Overview

Figure is an AI Robotics company developing a general purpose humanoid designed for corporate tasks that address labor shortages and perform jobs that are undesirable or unsafe. Based in Sunnyvale, CA, the candidate is expected to work 5 days/week in-office to foster collaboration. Join us as a Software Engineer to accelerate the development of the first humanoid robot, manufactured and deployed at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop tools and infrastructure to scale continuous software integration and deployment systems.
• Optimize build times and help scale the execution of automated tests and analysis.
• Integrate new build toolchains and software components to support the next generations of humanoids.
• Improve tooling and processes to integrate third-party repositories.
• Provide developers with an easy-to-set-up development environment aimed at accelerating software development.
• Collaborate with all engineering teams to prioritize feature development, optimizations, and reliability improvements.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• At least 7 years of industry experience.
• Mastery of configuration management using Git.
• Expertise with C++ and Python build and software integration tools (Bazel, CMake, Make, etc.).
• Proficient with scripting languages, including Python and Bash.
• Experience with one or more major cloud providers.
• Comfortable working with a broad range of continuous integration tools (GitHub, Jenkins, TeamCity, etc.) and deployment tools (Ansible, etc.).
• Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform).
• Strong knowledge of Linux, Docker, and microservices architectures.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Familiarity with Agile and test-driven development principles.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with web development languages and tools (HTML, CSS, JavaScript...)
• Deep understanding of key and certificate management as well as cryptographic signing and verification.