DevOps Engineer for Robotics Infrastructure

Alert Venture Foundry (AVF) is a robotics-focused startup studio building next-generation intelligent systems. Our ventures operate at the intersection of embedded compute, robotics hardware, and autonomous software. We need infrastructure that matches that complexity and agility.

We're seeking a DevOps Engineer for Robotics Infrastructure to lead the creation of scalable, reproducible, and secure development and deployment environments across our embedded and robotic platforms. Experience working in hardware, robotics, automation, autonomous vehicles (or similar) are an absolute must. Your primary mission will be to build the pipelines, tools, and provisioning infrastructure that power edge deployments (on devices like NVIDIA Jetson, Pixhawk, and microcontrollers) while also supporting developer experience, data visibility, and manufacturing workflows.

This position is onsite 4 days per week in our North Billerica, MA office lab.

What you’ll do:

• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines to support embedded software, firmware, and robotic system builds across multiple ventures.
• Develop provisioning, imaging, and deployment scripts for embedded Linux platforms and microcontrollers, using tools like Ansible and shell scripting.
• Build consistent development environments for engineers working on Ubuntu/Linux—supporting tools, libraries, and isolated configurations for edge systems.
• Automate flashing, imaging, and device configuration for robotic platforms to support repeatable manufacturing and field-readiness.
• Secure and harden Linux-based edge systems, including Jetson and other compute modules, with an emphasis on access control, communication, and reliability.
• Define and maintain Git branching and release workflows to support reliable versioning, changelog generation, and reproducible deployment across embedded, robotics, and backend systems.
• Implement telemetry, logging, and diagnostics infrastructure to collect operational and performance data from deployed systems for monitoring, debugging, and remote support.
• Support hardware bring-up and test automation through infrastructure for hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) or software-in-the-loop (SIL) workflows.
• Collaborate with embedded, software, and mechanical teams to streamline integration and ensure infrastructure supports rapid iteration and visibility.

What we’re looking for:

• 5 years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or embedded systems tooling, ideally in a robotics, hardware, or embedded-heavy environment.
• Strong skills in CI/CD systems (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI), with experience automating end-to-end build and deployment processes.
• Proficiency in Linux systems administration, scripting (e.g. Bash, Python), and system-level tools for embedded or edge Linux platforms.
• Hands-on experience with embedded device provisioning—imaging, flashing, secure boot, firmware deployment, and startup configuration.
• Experience using Ansible or similar configuration tools to manage fleets of devices or onboard hardware.
• Familiarity with robotics software stacks like ROS2, and messaging protocols like MAVLink or CAN.
• Comfortable working closely with hardware teams and supporting bring-up and test pipelines.
• Experience building tools for data capture, metrics, or logging to monitor hardware and embedded systems in the field.
• Experience establishing or managing Git strategies (e.g., trunk-based, GitFlow) and integrating them with CI/CD systems.

Preferred experience and skills, but not required:

• Experience building or operating cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS, GCP), especially around microservices, VPCs, or data access management.
• Knowledge of multi-tenant architectures, secure API design, and data segregation between internal and customer systems.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and deployment to edge/cloud hybrid systems.
• Experience with telemetry pipelines (e.g., MQTT, custom log collectors, Prometheus exporters) and visualization tools (e.g., Grafana, ELK, Loki).
• Exposure to system-level security practices in Ubuntu or other Linux-based OSs.

Why AVF?

• Build the infrastructure backbone of robotic systems deployed in the real world.
• Work directly with technical founders and elite engineers in a fast-paced, hardware-software environment.
• Define how cutting-edge ventures move from code to robot to field at scale.
• Help shape engineering culture, processes, and system architecture across an entire portfolio of robotics startups.

AVF is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who are passionate about infrastructure, embedded systems, and enabling real-world autonomy.