Performance Engineer
Chef Robotics
Software Engineering
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Jan 15, 2025
About Our Team
Chef Robotics is on a mission to accelerate the advent of intelligent machines in the physical world. As the rise of LLMs like ChatGPT has shown, AI has the potential to drive immense change. However, we believe AI’s biggest impact will be in the physical world, given industries like manufacturing, food, and transportation represent 90% of global GDP. We're starting with food, with a goal to put an intelligent robot in every commercial kitchen in the world. We have signed multiple multi-year contracts with various large food companies and we are growing fast. We're backed by investors like Kleiner Perkins, Construct, Bloomberg BETA and Promus Ventures. We have a great team, where you will be surrounded by talented engineers and tech leaders from companies like Cruise, Zoox, Google, Verb Surgical, Tesla, Nuro, Vicarious, Amazon Robotics, Strateos, Built Robotics, Facebook, Plenty, Yelp, and Microsoft.
About The Role
We are hiring an experienced Performance Engineer to join our software and autonomy team as we revolutionize the food manufacturing industry with AI-embodied robotics. In this role, you will work at the intersection of Software, Hardware, and Operations to keep our production fleet running at its best as we scale from dozens to hundreds of deployed robots.
In this role, you will:
- Monitor the Chef System’s performance at key customer production locations.
- Perform root-cause analysis to diagnose mission-critical incidents.
- Liaise with cross-functional teams and subject matter experts to identify, remediate, and fix performance issues.
- Design and implement test plans to prevent bugs from reaching production.
What You Bring:
- Degree in Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or equivalent industry experience that demonstrates comparable expertise.
- Strong analytical reasoning, communication, and prioritization skills.
- Over 2 years of experience working with robotic systems deployed remotely at a customer site.
- Experience working as a project manager.
- Experience writing and executing test plans for robotic systems.
- Familiarity with Python, SQL, and Linux
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizen status, uniform service member and veteran status, marital status, age, pregnancy status, protected medical condition, genetic information, disability, or any other protected status.
Multiple studies have found that a higher percentage of women and BIPOC candidates won't apply if they don't meet every listed qualification. Chef values candidates of all backgrounds. If you find yourself excited by our mission but you don't check every box in the description, we encourage you to apply anyway!