Senior Member of Technical Staff: Realtime Networking in Cambridge

You will own the networking that our robots depend on—most critically the low-latency wireless link that carries teleoperation between operator and robot, and more broadly the on-robot, building-wide, and infrastructure networking that keeps a deployed fleet connected and responsive. Teleoperation lives or dies on this link: it must deliver video, audio, and control with minimal latency and maximum reliability across real, messy industrial RF environments. You'll design, build, and harden that network end-to-end—from site-wide wireless infrastructure and radio topology through the transport and QoS software that runs over it—and you'll make it robust enough to trust with a robot doing real physical work.

Core Responsibilities:

• Teleop Network Link: Own the low-latency wireless link between operator and robot—topology, radio selection and configuration, and relentless optimization of latency, jitter, and reliability.
• Real-Time Transport: Design and tune the transport and streaming software (WebRTC and similar) that carries control, video, and audio, making the right tradeoffs between latency, throughput, and robustness.
• Building-Wide Infrastructure Design: Design and deploy the network infrastructure across customer and deployment sites—access point placement and coverage planning, backhaul, VLANs/segmentation, and the physical and logical topology that keeps a facility's robots reliably connected.
• Robot & Infrastructure Networking: Architect and maintain networking on the robot and across deployment sites—wireless infrastructure, connectivity, and the configuration that keeps robots reliably online.
• RF & Environment Robustness: Characterize and improve performance in real industrial RF environments, handling interference, roaming, coverage, and spectrum challenges.
• Resilience & Failover: Ensure networking degrades gracefully and recovers cleanly under loss, congestion, or coverage gaps, in coordination with the teleop and safety systems.
• Diagnostics & Tooling: Build tools to measure, monitor, and debug network performance in the lab and in the field.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with teleoperation, VR, and infrastructure engineers to define interfaces and hit end-to-end latency and reliability targets.

Required Qualifications:

• Real-Time Networking Expertise: Proven experience building low-latency, real-time networked systems where latency and reliability are critical.
• Networking Fundamentals: Deep understanding of networking across the stack—IP, transport protocols, routing, QoS, and the causes of latency and jitter.
• Wireless Understanding: Solid working knowledge of wireless networking (Wi-Fi and related technologies) and the realities of RF in real environments, even if your primary strength is software.
• Real-Time Media/Transport: Hands-on experience with real-time streaming or transport protocols such as WebRTC, RTP, or custom low-latency transports.
• Systems Software: Strong C/C++ and/or Python skills, with experience implementing and debugging networked software on Linux.
• Field Debugging: Strong ability to diagnose network problems across software and wireless boundaries using packet capture, network analysis, and RF tooling.
• Ownership: Track record of taking networked systems from design through deployment and real-world validation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with industrial or point-to-point wireless systems (e.g., URWB), Wi-Fi 6/6E, or managed cellular connectivity.
• Experience designing building-wide or site-wide network infrastructure (coverage planning, structured cabling/backhaul, enterprise AP deployments).
• Experience with antenna selection, placement, and RF planning for reliable coverage.
• Familiarity with teleoperation, remote driving, or other latency-critical human-in-the-loop systems.
• Experience with network QoS, traffic shaping, and prioritization for mixed real-time traffic.
• Exposure to time synchronization, DDS, or other real-time middleware.

Walden Robotics offers a competitive total compensation program, including salary, annual cash bonus, company equity, company-subsidized insurance programs, 401(k) with company match, flexible PTO, daily lunch, and other benefits. The pay ranges noted on our posts are for salary only.

Walden Robotics is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to hello@waldenrobotics.com.

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