Staff/Principal Platform Engineer

This role is based in New York City, NY or San Francisco Bay Area

Aescape - pronounced “escape” - is a first-of-its-kind lifestyle robotics company bringing people and robotics together for better living. We are in a period of rapid growth, launching our category-transforming product in 2024 with global leaders in hospitality, wellness, sports and fitness. Our diverse team focuses every day on building products that will change and improve the lives of our members and partners we do business with.

We are seeking a Staff or Principal level software engineer to join our Robotics Platform team. We have a pipeline of architecture and systems software work and are looking for a stand out engineer to join us!

At Aescape, we are working to make every body live better, longer. Providing high quality massages to every person irrespective of body type, BMI, muscle stiffness, and selected massage content is a highly technical and rewarding challenge. While building your personal massage therapist, we are actively pushing the bounds of soft tissue manipulation through our control algorithms, sensor fusion, and motion planning. Safety, intentionality, signaling, adaptation, and transferability are all core to our user experience.

What You’ll Do

• Design and execute services and infrastructure to support platform needs, which includes:

State management

Intra system communication

Performance

Networking

System bringup

Remote diagnostics

Logging and messaging

• Drive and lead design discussions cross functionally.
• Drive and lead productive peer code reviews.
• Collaborate cross functionally to define engineering requirements and cross functional dependencies.

What You’ll Bring

• A collaborative, curious engineer who enjoys solving difficult problems. Someone who’s driven and has a sense of responsibility and ownership, but values collaboration and the relationships you’ll build in the team and cross functionally.
• 5 or more years hands on experience in software engineering on a production level product
• Experience with networking such as MQTT and other IoT protocols.
• Experience with performance and optimization on a distributed system, preferable with RTOS.
• Experience building distributed fault tolerant services.
• Strong programming skills and experience including multi-threading, concurrency, caching, batching and messaging.
• Fluency in modern C++ and Object-oriented design patterns in both modern or embedded Linux environment (Ubuntu, Yocto, etc).
• Experience with service oriented architectures.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure – AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Experience with System Administration.
• Strong, proactive communication.

Great To Have

• Experience with Python and or Golang.
• Experience with Hardware in the loop testing support.
• Experience with ROS in drones, autonomous cars or medical device robots .

What’s In It For You

• Join a trailblazing tech company anticipated to transform the massage industry.
• The chance to make a difference with a product that empowers healthier and happier living.
• Team culture driven by passion, ambition, empowerment, inclusion, curiosity, and fun!
• We’ll grow together – your personal and professional growth are equally important.
• An environment that empowers individuals, emboldens teams, and rewards achievement.
• Early stage equity in a company led by serial entrepreneurs with multiple exits.
• Medical, vision, and dental insurance covered by us (if scheduled 30+ hours/week) .
• 401k with 4% company match.
• Unlimited vacation, generous parental leave.
• Working late? Dinner is on us.
• Competitive pay + bonus + equity plan. The salary range for the role is 185,000-$250,000.

More on Aescape

Aescape (pronounced 'escape') is a first-of-its-kind lifestyle robotics company bringing people and robotics together for better living. Founded in 2017, Aescape has developed fully automated massage therapy to help hospitality, fitness and healthcare industries meet the rising demand for wellness services in the face of a growing global labor shortage. Aescape delivers exceptional massages: consistent, accessible, and on your terms.

We’re proud to share that we’ve raised $70M pre-launch, affirming what we know to be true: we’re truly revolutionizing the massage experience.

Founder Eric Litman (4 prior exits) is joined by a leadership team from Peloton, Tonal, Amazon, Accenture, Apple, Bird, Meta, and Intuitive Surgical. Named by Business Insider as one of the top 22 innovative sports startups

We are inspired by individuals who are passionate, driven, and eager to learn. We value diverse perspectives and people who are resourceful, determined, and have a passion to make a difference in the world. Like our product, we empower people to reach their full potential with Aescape.

TRY ONCE, BELIEVE FOREVER.