Vancouver, Canada

Full-Time

Your New Role and Team

Sanctuary AI–a multi award-winning LinkedIn Top Startup company- is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer. Reporting to the Cognitive Platform Lead, you’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of our platform's design, architecture, and implementation that power our general-purpose robots.

The ideal applicants for this position enjoy systems thinking, are eager to learn, and are willing to develop technical skills while gaining valuable industry experience. Ultimately, you'll be a valued part of the team as you learn and adapt to new, complex development environments, own solutions from design and execution through to deployment and support, and innovate best practices that drive continuous improvements in our robotic systems.

Our Success Criteria

Gain cutting-edge career experience while automating workflows and processes, managing, optimizing, and securing on-robot, edge computers, and cloud environments.
Build, deploy, and monitor operations of the component subsystems, ensuring that all segments work together with high performance and reliability.
Write, debug, and maintain robust software for the humanoid robot software stack.
Design and implement efficient and reliable communication mechanisms to enable seamless integration between different parts of the system.
Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to support a fleet of general-purpose robots and ensure smooth deployment and maintenance of the software.
Develop and iterate on new functionalities and test through simulation and on-hardware execution.
Achieve company-wide visibility as you partner with leaders to ensure smooth deployment and configuration, provide technical support to end users, and structure and keep technical documentation updated.
Act as a mentor and provide guidance to team members, fostering their professional growth and development.

Your Qualifications & Skills

Qualifications

Over 8 years of software development experience, including practical work in software applications development; technical experience with robotic systems preferred
Knowledge of professional engineering practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source management, testing, and continuous integration and deployment
Fluency with C++, Python, Java, or equivalent
Experience with distributed systems, microservice architecture, and cloud platforms.
Proficiency in designing and developing GraphQL and REST APIs
Experience with messaging queues and event-driven architectures (e.g. Apache Kafka, RTI DDS)
A track record of technical excellence and successful projects under minimal supervision

Skills

In-depth knowledge of system architecture assessments, integrated design, software, support equipment, installation of subsystems, and experiments to ensure that relevant safety requirements are met
Systems engineering, integration, and root cause analysis skills for system issues
Strategic thinker with an architectural mindset, adept at balancing short-term and long-term needs
Excellent organizational and process documentation skills
Ability to design, implement, and test in a fast-paced environment

Traits

Above all else, a consistently positive attitude and a willingness to do whatever it takes to create robust solutions to complex problems
A proponent of personal responsibility for themselves and their teammates
Empathetic listener with conflict-resolution capabilities
Effective communicator with strong interpersonal skills for engaging both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Self-motivated and able to solve problems independently
Patience, persistence, and attention to detail when resolving issues
Mission-driven and passionate about bringing human-like intelligence to machines

Entry-rate Annual Salary: $120,000 CAD and up

Compensation:

At Sanctuary AI, we provide above average total compensation that includes three components: salary, equity, and benefits. Our goal is to ensure fairness in pay and we strive to make the overall package highly competitive with current market rates.

Equity:

Equity will play a significant role in the total compensation for this role. Our goal is to provide a generous equity compensation package, exceeding what is typically offered by companies of our size. The specific amount of equity will be communicated to candidates upon receiving an offer.

Benefits - Canadian permanent employees are eligible for:

+ Medical Insurance

+ Dental

+ Vision

+ Hearing Aids

+ Life Insurance and AD&D

+ Prescriptions

+ Paramedicals

+ Hospital

+ Travel

+ $500 per calendar year Healthcare Spending Account

+ Unique complimentary beverages and snacks at our head office

The compensation and benefits details provided for this role in Vancouver, BC are based on Sanctuary AI's market evaluation and may be subject to changes in the future. Your pay within the specified range will depend on various job-related factors, such as your past work experience, relevant education, and performance during interviews or work trials. Salary minimum provided is an entry-level rate for this role, as a requirement of the Pay Transparency Act in British Columbia.

** Please do not submit any information that is confidential to you or any third party. By submitting an application, you acknowledge and agree that your application does not contain any information that is confidential to you or any third party. **

Working at Sanctuary AI

Sanctuary AI is an equal opportunity employer; employment with Sanctuary AI is governed based on skills, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced in any way by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status. In 2023, Sanctuary AI moved into a state-of-the-art office facility and has been recognized by LinkedIn as a Top Startup company.

Benefits

Full time (non co-op) employees enjoy medical/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, wellness programs, stock options, paid time off (3 weeks vacation accrued annually, paid statutory holidays, paid statutory sick leave, and statutory parental leave), scheduling and worksite flexibility by role, and more.

About Sanctuary AI

Founded in 2018 by Geordie Rose, Suzanne Gildert, Olivia Norton, and Ajay Agrawal, Sanctuary AI is a Vancouver, Canada-based company. Sanctuary AI is on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that will help us work more safely, efficiently, and sustainably. And in the not-too-distant future, help us explore, settle, and prosper in outer space.

Members of the Sanctuary AI team founded D-Wave (a pioneer in the quantum computing industry), Kindred (first use of reinforcement learning in a production robot), and the Creative Destruction Lab (pioneered a revolutionary method for the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind). The team has experience launching market-defining innovations rooted in previously unsolved and deep scientific problems.

Recruiting & Employment Agency Notice:

Recruitment and hiring is conducted internally by Sanctuary AI. We are not seeking or soliciting any new agency partnerships or agreements at this time. Any employment agency or professional recruiter (“Agency”) that provides an unsolicited resume(s) or otherwise presents a prospective job candidate through the Sanctuary AI career site or directly to any Sanctuary AI employee, irrevocably grants to Sanctuary AI the unrestricted right to engage, hire, or contract with that candidate at Sanctuary AI's sole discretion without any compensation to the Agency. We appreciate your interest in working together, and should the need arise our Talent Acquisition team will contact any external firms directly.

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