Senior Connectivity Software Engineer

Irobot.wd5.irobot

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China-Shanghai Until 8/22/2026 H-1B sponsor history First posted March 24, 2025 Last posted March 24, 2025
Job description

Introduction

Do you want to contribute to the future of one of the largest consumer robot companies in the world? As a Senior Connectivity Software Engineer in the Robot OS team you will have an important role in developing the next generation of robots that will live in millions of homes across the world. As a pioneer in the robot industry, our goal is to drive innovation, serve as an industry catalyst, and change the world by empowering people to do more.

What you will do: 

  • Develop simple, maintainable, highly reusable embedded software designs that can be leveraged across our product portfolio. 
  • Understand customer and system requirements and translate that into software requirements and designs. 
  • Responsible for defining software design best practices, tools, technologies, and templates. 
  • Define and implement unit tests to help deliver new features.
  • Participate in software project planning and execution. 
  • Coordinate tasks across teams and groups.
  • Solve complex problems with as simple as possible solutions.
  • Write software documentation and test plans. 
  • Participate in and drive code reviews. 

 To Be Successful You Will Have:

  • Over 4 years’ experience in design and implementation of embedded software platforms and applications.
  • Proficient in Software development in C and C++ languages and knowledge of OOP Principles.
  • Knowledge of networking (e.g. TCP/IP, SSL), wireless communications (Wi-Fi, BLE), and/or AWS.
  • Experience with multi-threaded applications.
  • Debug system issues to understand root-cause and provide suggested fixes.
  • Experience working at a consumer electronics company. 
  • Excellent communication/interpersonal skills.
  • Flexible in completing tasks in an ever-changing workplace.  
  • Positive attitude, strong work ethic, self-motivated, organized.

Preferred/Additional Skills (Not Required): 

  • Experience developing in a Linux environment.
  • Knowledge of iOS and Android mobile OS.
  • Experience with Yocto, Jenkins and DevOps tools.
  • Experience with creating software automation tests in Python. 
  • Experience working in an Agile/SCRUM process.

About this role

Summary

Develop embedded software for consumer robots and coordinate project tasks.

Job title

Senior Connectivity Software Engineer

Experience level

4+ years

Industry

consumer electronics

Location requirements

Located in Shanghai, China; remote work not allowed.

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

embedded softwareCC++OOPnetworkingwireless communicationsAWSmulti-threadeddebuggingcommunication

Preferred skills

LinuxiOSAndroidYoctoJenkinsDevOpsPythonAgileSCRUM

Specializations

embedded softwareC++networkingwireless communicationsmulti-threaded
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Shanghai, China

On-site City