DevOps Engineer

Mindrobotics
Palo Alto, CA

Who this role is best for

Candidates with cloud infrastructure experience and a background in automation will find this mid-level DevOps Engineer role at Mindrobotics in Palo Alto suits those looking to work on generalized physical AI systems.

Best fit for

  • Mid-level DevOps professionals with production Kubernetes and cloud platform experience
    — “Experience with Kubernetes and Docker in production environments.
  • Individuals who have automated complex CI/CD pipelines for software and ML workflows
    — “Develop CI/CD pipelines for robotics software, embedded applications, and machine learning workflows.
  • Candidates with a strong background in Infrastructure as Code and Linux administration
    — “Strong experience administering Linux systems. Strong Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform preferred).

Things to consider

  • The role requires a minimum of 4 years in DevOps or related infrastructure roles
    — “4+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
  • Candidates must be able to work across software, ML, and robotics teams seamlessly
    — “You'll work across software, ML, and robotics teams to automate infrastructure, streamline deployments, improve developer productivity...

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with reproducible development environments and simulation infrastructure
    — “Partner with robotics, firmware, and ML teams to create reproducible development environments.
  • Emphasize your track record in optimizing cloud costs and resource utilization
    — “Optimize cloud resource utilization and infrastructure costs.
  • Showcase your ability to implement security best practices in infrastructure
    — “Implement security best practices for infrastructure, secrets management, networking, and access controls.
  • Demonstrate your skills in monitoring and logging with tools like Prometheus or Grafana
    — “Experience implementing monitoring and logging solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, OpenTelemetry, etc.).
  • Position yourself as someone with expertise in deploying to fleets of physical devices
    — “Experience deploying software to fleets of physical devices.
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Mid

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What success looks like

  • designed and deployed scalable cloud infrastructure
  • automated software deployment
  • improved system reliability and uptime
Typical background
4+ years of DevOps experience

Skills & requirements

Required

Cloud InfrastructureInfrastructure As CodeCi/cd PipelinesKubernetesDockerMonitoring And LoggingSecurity Best Practices

Preferred

PythonGoBashConfiguration ManagementAutomation Tools

Stack & domain

DevOpsCloud InfrastructureAWSGCPAzureTerraformCi/cd PipelinesKubernetesDockerPrometheusGrafanaDatadogOpentelemetryConfiguration ManagementAutomation ToolsPythonGoBashMonitoring And Logging SolutionsNetworkingSecurityAuthenticationDistributed SystemsGPU InfrastructureML Training ClustersNvidia GpusCUDA EnvironmentsArtifact RepositoriesLarge Binary AssetsSimulation EnvironmentsSoftware Supply Chain SecuritySbomsEdge ComputingCollaborationProblem-solvingCommunicationTeamworkAdaptability

About the role

Original posting from Mindrobotics via Ashby

ABOUT MIND:

Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.

ABOUT THE TEAM AND THE ROLE:

At Mind Robotics, we're building generalized physical AI—robotic systems capable of dexterous, adaptive, and reasoning-intensive work in real-world industrial environments.

Our robots rely on a sophisticated software platform that spans cloud infrastructure, robotics middleware, simulation, machine learning, and deployment to physical hardware. We're looking for a DevOps Engineer to build and operate the infrastructure that enables engineers to develop, test, deploy, and monitor robotic systems reliably at scale.

You'll work across software, ML, and robotics teams to automate infrastructure, streamline deployments, improve developer productivity, and ensure our robots can be continuously updated and monitored both in the lab and in production.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, deploy, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure using AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or similar tools.
  • Develop CI/CD pipelines for robotics software, embedded applications, and machine learning workflows.
  • Automate software deployment across development robots, test environments, and production fleets.
  • Improve build systems, artifact management, release processes, and version control workflows.
  • Manage Kubernetes clusters and containerized services supporting robotics applications.
  • Monitor infrastructure health, application performance, and production systems using modern observability tools.
  • Improve system reliability, uptime, security, and disaster recovery processes.
  • Build internal developer tooling that increases engineering productivity.
  • Partner with robotics, firmware, and ML teams to create reproducible development environments.
  • Support simulation infrastructure and large-scale testing pipelines.
  • Optimize cloud resource utilization and infrastructure costs.
  • Implement security best practices for infrastructure, secrets management, networking, and access controls.
  • Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous operational improvements.

REQUIREMENTS:

  • 4+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
  • Strong experience administering Linux systems.
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Experience with Kubernetes and Docker in production environments.
  • Strong Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform preferred).
  • Experience building CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Buildkite, or similar platforms.
  • Experience with configuration management and automation tools.
  • Proficiency with Python, Go, or Bash for infrastructure automation.
  • Experience implementing monitoring and logging solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, OpenTelemetry, etc.).
  • Strong understanding of networking, security, authentication, and distributed systems.
  • Experience troubleshooting production systems under operational constraints.

NICE TO HAVES:

  • Experience supporting robotics, autonomous systems, or embedded software teams.
  • Experience deploying software to fleets of physical devices.
  • Experience supporting GPU infrastructure and ML training clusters.
  • Experience with NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA environments, or distributed training systems.
  • Experience managing artifact repositories and large binary assets.
  • Experience supporting simulation environments.
  • Knowledge of software supply chain security and SBOMs.
  • Experience with edge computing or IoT deployments.

Source: Mindrobotics careers (Ashby)

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