Apptronik is building robots for the real world to improve human quality of life and to help solve the ever-increasing labor shortage problem. The company needs to ensure its robotics engineers can build, test, and deploy complex robotics software with maximum velocity and reliability by owning the critical intersection of infrastructure, tooling, and automation.
Requirements
- Expertise in scripting and automation using modern languages like Python or Bash.
- A strong command of the Linux operating system, including networking, file systems, permissions, resource management, and shell environments.
- Experience with C++ and a strong command of its build ecosystem, particularly CMake.
- Proven ability to design, build, and manage complex, automated CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Bitbucket pipelines, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions).
- Proficiency with containerization technologies
- A solid understanding of core networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP).
- Experience with C++ package managers like Conan.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable and resilient CI/CD pipelines tailored for a large-scale C++ and Python codebase.
- Take ownership of the underlying infrastructure for our CI/CD system, including managing container orchestration (Kubernetes) for build agents and services.
- Proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks in the build and test process, applying optimizations such as advanced caching, parallelization, and build system improvements (CMake).
- Manage artifact and container registries, ensuring secure, reliable, and fast access to software dependencies and build outputs.
- Develop and maintain essential tooling and automation that simplifies and accelerates the entire development workflow, from local development to hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing.
- Manage the C++ dependency ecosystem using tools like Conan, balancing developer flexibility with build reproducibility and stability.
- Automate the provisioning and configuration of development and testing resources using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles with tools like Terraform and Ansible.
Other
- 5+ years of relevant experience in a DevOps, Software Engineering, or Build/Release Engineering role.
- A proven track record of supporting software development teams by building and maintaining reliable infrastructure and effective tooling.
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times.
- Vision to read printed materials and a computer screen.
