Senior Full Stack Engineer
Chef Robotics
Software Engineering
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Jan 31, 2025
About Our Team
Chef Robotics is on a mission to accelerate the advent of intelligent machines in the physical world. As the rise of LLMs like ChatGPT has shown, AI has the potential to drive immense change. However, we believe AI’s biggest impact will be in the physical world, given industries like manufacturing, food, and transportation represent 90% of global GDP. We're starting with food, with a goal to put an intelligent robot in every commercial kitchen in the world. We have signed multiple multi-year contracts with various large food companies and we are growing fast. We're backed by investors like Kleiner Perkins, Construct, Bloomberg BETA and Promus Ventures. We have a great team, where you will be surrounded by talented engineers and tech leaders from companies like Cruise, Zoox, Google, Verb Surgical, Tesla, Nuro, Vicarious, Amazon Robotics, Strateos, Built Robotics, Facebook, Plenty, Yelp, and Microsoft.
About the Role
Chef Robotics is seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to play a key role in developing on robot and cloud-based applications for Chef Robotics. Initially, this role will focus on building cloud dashboards that enable line workers to operate and control Chef, as well as corporate-facing dashboards that allow customers to program the system efficiently.
As the role evolves, the engineer will work extensively on backend, cloud, and infrastructure projects, including provisioning robots for seamless deployment, enabling remote software updates to enhance performance and reliability, and developing systems for real-time remote robot control. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge robotics technology and shape the software that powers intelligent automation.
As a small team, we are focused on building a positive in-office culture. We are looking for individuals who are available to work onsite at the office five days a week and can work start-up-oriented hours.
In this role, you will:
- Own the development and maintenance of the HMI dashboard, ensuring an intuitive and responsive user experience.
- Collaborate with autonomy, robotics, and cloud teams to create a seamless interface between the Chef system and its operators.
- Design and implement frontend and backend solutions that integrate with autonomy runtime systems.
- Optimize system performance and reliability, addressing latency, scalability, and fault tolerance.
- Maintain a secure and efficient data pipeline between on-device and cloud services.
- Develop internal tools and dashboards using Retool for monitoring and administration.
- Enhancing the HMI dashboard for improved usability and responsiveness.
- Integrating real-time pub/sub communication with the autonomy runtime via WebSockets.
- Expanding REST API capabilities for non-autonomy actions.
- Improving the performance and reliability of cloud services supporting the Chef system.
- Implementing 3D rendering features in the UI using Three.js or Three Fiber.
Key Projects:
What You Bring:
- Experience working with a modern TypeScript frontend (React, Next.js, Vite)
- Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, etc.) and ORM libraries (SQLAlchemy, Prisma, Sequelize, etc.)
- Experience building performant REST APIs (Node/Express, Python FastAPI, Ruby on Rails, etc.)
- Experience building user-facing interfaces for autonomy, robotics, industrial automation, or edge/IoT devices
- Experience interfacing with ROS or a similar autonomy runtime
- Experience with Python web servers (FastAPI, Flask, Django, Tornado)
- Experience rendering 3D scenes in React using Three.js or Three Fiber
Preferred/Nice-to-Have Skills:
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizen status, uniform service member and veteran status, marital status, age, pregnancy status, protected medical condition, genetic information, disability, or any other protected status.
Multiple studies have found that a higher percentage of women and BIPOC candidates won't apply if they don't meet every listed qualification. Chef values candidates of all backgrounds. If you find yourself excited by our mission but you don't check every box in the description, we encourage you to apply anyway!