Staff Software Engineer, Physical AI Orchestration

About Destro AI Destro AI is building the intelligence layer for robotics — the system that tells robots and humans what to do across complex real-world operations. Founded by former leaders from HAI Robotics, Dexterity, and Matic, Destro is built on a simple thesis: robotics has solved movement, but not decision-making. At the core of Destro is MothershipOS, a centralized brain that coordinates robots, humans, and workflows in real time. Unlike traditional systems that rely on local intelligence on each robot, Destro brings global intelligence across the entire operation. Destro recently closed its Seed round at one of the highest valuations for a robotics company at this stage, and is already working with large enterprise operators to deploy real systems in production environments. Role Overview Destro AI is hiring its most senior engineering role to date — a Staff Software Engineer who will define how the company builds, ships, and scales software over the next several years. The company reached production quickly. Its current platform consists of several services, each built independently and under deadline pressure to win early customer pilots. These services work in production today, but were not designed as a unified system: there is no shared architecture, no consistent versioning or release process, no automated deployment pipeline, limited test coverage, and insufficient telemetry to detect site degradation before customers notice it. This role is responsible for consolidating these services into a single, coherent, production-grade platform that scales across multiple customer sites, and for establishing the version control, release, and deployment discipline required to support it. The approach is incremental — hardening and unifying the existing system in a deliberate sequence, not a rewrite, since the platform runs live customer operations that cannot be interrupted. The role begins as a hands-on, individual-contributor position, with the expectation of growing into a leadership role as the engineering team scales. What You’ll Do Platform Unification & Architecture Bring today’s separate services into one coherent platform with clear service boundaries, shared data contracts, and consistent interfaces Design for scale: multi-site, multi-tenant, and multi-vendor robot fleets from day one Eliminate duplicated logic, one-off scripts, and per-site special cases Own the technical roadmap that takes us from the current architecture to the target one, incrementally and without downtime Version Control, Release & Update Delivery Establish real version control discipline: branching strategy, code review standards, semantic versioning, release branches, and change tracking Build a repeatable, automated path from commit to running on customer hardware Implement over-the-air update push across cloud and on-site edge compute — staged rollouts, device provisioning, version pinning per site, and a rollback…