Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Centinus builds physical AI and autonomous systems for real-world operations. The company is seeking a Core Systems Engineer to build and own foundational software connecting its AI, mission, and autonomous capabilities, including platform architecture, performance, reliability, interfaces, and distributed operation.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain the foundational architecture of the Centinus platform
- Build high-performance software for real-time, data-intensive systems
- Define clear and durable interfaces between major platform components
- Enable reliable operation across distributed cloud and edge environments
- Own critical aspects of system performance, concurrency, resilience, and resource efficiency
- Create a foundation that supports new AI capabilities, integrations, sensors, and autonomous platforms
- Establish high engineering standards for architecture, APIs, testing, observability, and maintainability
- Serve as a technical leader and long-term steward of the core codebase
Skills
- Deep experience building high-performance production software
- Strong systems-programming expertise in C++, Rust, Go, or a comparable language
- Experience with distributed, asynchronous, event-driven, or real-time systems
- Strong understanding of concurrency, networking, APIs, and data-intensive services
- Experience defining stable interfaces across complex software systems
- The ability to reason across architecture, implementation, performance, and operations
- Strong technical judgment and the ability to lead through both design and code
- Comfort taking substantial ownership in an early-stage environment
- Experience in robotics, autonomy, aerospace, computer vision, edge computing, command-and-control, or mission-critical systems is highly valued
Benefits
- Build a foundational platform for consequential physical AI and autonomous systems.
- Own architecture with long-term influence across the company’s products.
- Work closely with experienced technical and company leadership.
- Help define the engineering principles, architecture, and culture of an early team.
- Grow into broader technical leadership as the organization expands.
- See your software move beyond prototypes into real operational systems.
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