Senior Software Engineer

Andromeda Robotics is an ambitious social robotics company with offices in Melbourne and San Francisco, dedicated to creating robots that seamlessly and intelligently interact with the human world. Our first robot, Abi, is a testament to this vision, a custom-built platform designed from the ground up to be a helpful aid and intuitive partner in aged care homes. We are a passionate, collaborative team of engineers who solve some of the most challenging problems in AI and robotics.

Deeply empathetic - Kindness and compassion are at the heart of everything we do.

Purposely playful - Play sharpens focus. It keeps us curious, fast and obsessed with the craft.

Relentlessly striving - With relentless ambition, an action bias and constant curiosity, we don't settle.

Strong when it counts - Tenacious under pressure, we expect problems and stay in motion to adapt and progress.

United in action - Different minds. Shared mission. No passengers.

We're creating a wellbeing insights platform. Our robots generate transcripts and perception data from resident interactions. 

The opportunity: turn this into insights that genuinely help aged care staff support their residents better. We need someone who has the judgement to hone in on what's useful for customers and end-users, build it, and prove it's valuable.

You'll be the engineering counterpart to our Senior Data Scientist, building the product layer that makes their insights valuable in the real world. You'll own the product serving stack from day one: how we deliver data science insights to users, all technical decisions on product architecture, and what gets shipped. You'll have MLOps support from ML engineers and infrastructure support from our DevOps/CloudOps team, freeing you to focus on building valuable product:

• Product layer over data science: Transform models and analyses into interfaces, APIs, and integrations care managers use daily
• Full stack delivery: Frontend for care staff, backend services, infrastructure for security and scale. Whatever blocks value, you unblock
• Real world adoption: Build integrations with existing aged care systems, not isolated dashboards
• Customer driven development: Work directly with care homes to understand workflows and ship what matters
• Pragmatic architecture: Ship MVPs that can evolve without rewrites; make smart trade-offs under ambiguity
• Daily data science collaboration: Partner closely to shape deliverables and feed back customer needs

You'll significantly shape product direction working alongside the Chief Product Officer, Chief Commercial Officer, Head of Machine Learning, customers, end users. Your voice matters in what we build.

This is 0 to 1 work. Requirements evolve. Customers and executives want different things. You'll wear multiple hats: care home visits, API development, infrastructure decisions. Quick wins matter. You'll ship pragmatically whilst understanding your technical debt.

You'll be building the product layer largely independently, but you're surrounded by exceptional technical talent working in other areas: solution architects, cloud engineers, AI engineers, autonomous systems engineers, spacecraft engineers, machine learning engineers, software engineers. When you need deep technical expertise outside your domain, you can lean on people who've solved hard problems at scale.

• Measure success by customer outcomes, not technical sophistication
• Energise in ambiguity rather than freeze
• Collaborate naturally across technical and non technical stakeholders
• Ship pragmatically without painting yourself into corners
• Take initiative and drive work forward independently
• Genuinely care about improving vulnerable people's lives

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent shipping experience
• 5+ years building customer facing products; you've seen multiple product lifecycles building 0 to 1 products where you helped define value
• Full stack competence: frontend, backend, infrastructure, databases
• Strong fundamentals: clean architecture, testing, security, and maintainability
• Self starter who works independently: You'll identify what needs building, make decisions, and execute without waiting for direction
• Intellectually curious: You dig into problems, ask questions, and connect dots across domains
• Comfortable making calls: You own technical decisions and have significant input on product direction
• Melbourne based, five days on site

• Healthcare or privacy sensitive domains
• Advising on and implementing tools and technologies where we don't currently have coverage
• Productionising ML and data science outputs

Benefits

The salary for this position may vary depending on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package may also include additional benefits or components based on the specific role. Details will be provided if an employment offer is made.

If you're excited about this role but don't meet every requirement, that's okay, we encourage you to apply. At Andromeda Robotics, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Let's build the future together.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.