Software Engineer (Generalist)
Remedy Robotics
Software Engineering
San Francisco, CA, USA
Location
San Francisco
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Hybrid
Department
Engineering
About Remedy Robotics
Cardiovascular disease is the #1 cause of morbidity and mortality in the world. Much of this could be prevented with better access to specialist care. Take stroke as an example: any delay in treatment can lead to permanent disability or death. However, due to a lack of specialist surgeons, the most effective intervention can only be performed in 2% of US hospitals. For patients who present to one of the 98% of hospitals that do not offer the surgery, treatment is either significantly delayed or not offered at all because timely transfer is not feasible.
Our mission is to bring state-of-the-art vascular intervention to anyone, anytime, regardless of their location. Our team of medical clinicians, roboticists, and machine learning experts are working to bridge this gap by building the world’s first remotely-operated, semi-autonomous endovascular surgical robot.
We’ve already done what nobody else could—using our system, doctors from around the world were able to remotely perform this procedure from as far as 8000 miles away. We now need your help to bring this technology out of the laboratory and into hospitals everywhere.
The Role
We're looking for a strong generalist software engineer to help us ship the next version of our surgical robot. You'll work across our software stack — robot control, system-level orchestration, user-facing tools — and pick up whatever needs picking up. This role suits someone who has more interest in building a working product than in specializing in one layer of the stack.
You Will
Build and improve core robot control software in C++
Own system-level orchestration code in Python that ties our subsystems together
Improve our simulation and test infrastructure
Move across the stack as needed — whatever is currently the bottleneck
Collaborate closely with ML, hardware, and clinical teams to ship end-to-end features
Help define and harden the software architecture as we move toward IDE submission and clinical trial
You Have
5+ years building non-trivial production software, ideally in a system-level context (robotics, embedded, medical devices, scientific instruments, autonomy)
Strong C++ and Python
Advanced fluency with coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalents) — you use them as a daily force multiplier and have strong opinions on how to get good output from them
Systems thinking — comfortable with concurrency, real-time constraints, IPC, and the tradeoffs that come with them
Pragmatic instincts about when to optimize, when to ship, and when to rewrite
Strong communication — you write clear code, clear PR descriptions, and clear design docs
Comfort working in a small team where the lines between domains are blurry
BS or MS in computer science, robotics, or related field
Nice to Haves
Experience with robotics middleware (ROS2, custom IPC, gRPC/protobuf)
Real-time Linux experience
Motion control or control theory exposure
TypeScript and frontend work — enough to be powerful when needed
Linux driver or kernel-adjacent experience
Medical device or other regulated software experience (IEC 62304, safety-critical patterns)
Simulation infrastructure (MuJoCo, Gazebo, custom)