Senior Build Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Our Mission

Our mission is to solve the most important and fundamental challenges in AI and Robotics to enable future generations of intelligent machines that will help us all live better lives.

Overview

The Build Engineer will be an integral member of the team responsible for developing, supporting, and maintaining the build system and continuous integration (CI) processes at the Robotics and AI Institute. This role is critical to the Institute’s success, ensuring that the codebase remains stable and builds are efficient. You will develop, support, and maintain the build system (with a strong focus on tools like Bazel, CMake, and Colcon) and continuous integration processes. The ideal candidate will focus on constructing reproducible builds for rapid iteration, creating maintainable build artifacts, and managing dependencies, all of which are essential for sustained productivity across the Institute.

Responsibilities

• This role focuses on build system tooling and software compilation, not infrastructure provisioning or production deployment pipelines
• Design, develop, and maintain a company-wide build system and continuous integration (CI) infrastructure for both internal and external repositories, ensuring reliable and reproducible builds
• Collaborate with research and development teams to integrate software and third-party libraries into the build system
• Drive release engineering efforts, including packaging, deployment, and version management
• Maintain and evolve version control workflows, ensuring efficient branching, merging, and code review processes
• Troubleshoot and resolve build failures, dependency conflicts, and CI-related issues
• Implement and optimize build pipelines for speed, reliability, and scalability
• Manage and maintain build artifacts, ensuring they are reproducible, versioned, and easily accessible
• Develop and maintain automated testing frameworks within the CI pipeline to ensure code quality
• Monitor, profile, and improve build performance (e.g., incremental build times, cache effectiveness, dependency graph complexity
• Provide informal technical leadership within the build, CI domain and developer experience, sharing best practices, reviewing code, and mentoring junior engineers or researchers who interact with the build system

Qualifications

Bonus

The current reasonable and good faith estimate of the annual base salary range for this position is $128,100 - $237,900, which is based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills and experience, educational background and certifications, performance and qualifications, market demand for the role, geographic location, and other organizational needs. An individual candidate may be considered for this position at a different job level, in which case the appropriate salary range will be provided to the candidate after their qualifications have been established.

Employees who are new to the RAI Institute typically receive an offer that is between the minimum and the midpoint of the posted salary range to allow for growth within the range over time.

Base pay is part of a competitive total compensation package that may include an annual bonus, a long-term cash incentive, monthly cell phone cost reimbursement, commuter cost subsidy, medical benefits, and more.

Any final job offer will be determined based on our established compensation range for the role, the candidate’s experience and qualifications, internal parity, and market and business considerations. The advertised pay range is not a guarantee or promise of a specific wage.

We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.