What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Build Engineer position at The AI Institute?
Our Mission
Our mission is to solve the most important and fundamental challenges in AI and Robotics to enable future generations of intelligent machines that will help us all live better lives.
Role Overview
The Senior Build Engineer will be an integral member of the team responsible for developing, supporting, and maintaining the build system and continuous integration (CI) processes at the AI Institute. This role is critical to the Institute’s success, ensuring that the codebase remains stable and builds are efficient. The ideal candidate will focus on constructing reproducible builds for rapid iteration, creating maintainable build artifacts, and managing dependencies, all of which are essential for sustained productivity across the Institute.
\n- Design, develop, and maintain a company-wide build system and continuous integration (CI) infrastructure for both internal and external repositories, ensuring reliable and reproducible builds
- Collaborate with research and development teams to integrate software and third-party libraries into the build system
- Drive release engineering efforts, including packaging, deployment, and version management
- Maintain and evolve version control workflows, ensuring efficient branching, merging, and code review processes
- Troubleshoot and resolve build failures, dependency conflicts, and CI-related issues
- Implement and optimize build pipelines for speed, reliability, and scalability
- Manage and maintain build artifacts, ensuring they are reproducible, versioned, and easily accessible
- Develop and maintain automated testing frameworks within the CI pipeline to ensure code quality
- Monitor, report on, and continuously improve build system performance metrics.
- BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 7 years of experience in software development. 5 years of experience in Linux build/release engineering
- Strong experience with CI tools (e.g., GitHub Actions). Expertise with build automation tools (e.g., Bazel, CMake, Colcon).
- Proficiency with container technologies (e.g., Docker). Familiarity with modern Python and C development
- Experience with dependency management tools (e.g., pip, poetry).
- Knowledge of Debian packaging systems (e.g., apt).
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Strong documentation practices for build processes and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with GitHub Enterprise, Google Artifact Registry, or other artifact management platforms
- Hands-on experience with ROS/ROS2 in a robotics environment
- Knowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration
- Familiarity with cross-compilation and build systems for embedded systems or specialized hardware
- Background in real-time systems.
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