Senior DevOps Engineer
About the job
- At least 5 years of experience in DevOps, site reliability engineering, platform, or infrastructure, with ownership of production systems.
- Proficiency in a programming language such as Python, C++, Rust, or Go.
- Strong knowledge of software engineering best practices and design patterns.
- Experience with Docker and containerized environments.
- Experience with software build systems for cloud infrastructure and embedded systems.
- Experience with procedural continuous integration and continuous delivery, and build artifact delivery systems such as over-the-air updates.
- Comfort operating in a Linux environment.
- Ability to work independently in ambiguous situations, prioritize independently, and contribute where needed.
- Effective communication and ability to work cross-functionally in a fast-moving team.
- Maintain and improve the continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline by instrumenting and monitoring CI jobs and iteratively improving the pipeline.
- Manage and maintain infrastructure for storing build artifacts and dependencies.
- Build and improve cloud and GPU cluster infrastructure, and create DevOps infrastructure to support daily research and software development.
- Improve the MLOps training and deployment path, including the checkpoint registry and database, model artifact promotion, and rollout to inference and robot endpoints.
- Improve infrastructure observability.
- Harden security and multi-tenancy.
- Knowledge of industrial communication protocols such as EtherCAT, Modbus, and gRPC.
- Experience with MLOps.
- Understanding of networking fundamentals such as TCP/IP, DNS, and firewalls, and security best practices for embedded IoT devices.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud system orchestration.
About the company
Rhoda AI is building a two-armed humanoid robot designed as a general-purpose bimanual manipulation platform for industrial use. Its product centers on heavy-lifting and complex manipulation in factory and logistics environments, where many humanoid robots struggle. The robot combines dual arms with software and sensors that enable grasping, coordinating with both hands, and performing tasks that require strength and precision in industrial settings. Rhoda AI differentiates itself by targeting heavy-lift capabilities in robotics, a gap for many competitors, supported by a team with deep robotics and AI expertise and substantial funding. The company aims to bring commercially viable humanoid robots to industrial markets, competing with other players in factory automation and logistics robotics, with the goal of transforming how manual work is automated in manufacturing and related sectors.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$680M
Headquarters
San Jose, California
Founded
2024
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Rhoda raised $450 million in March 2026 at a $1.7 billion valuation.
- Reuters said investors include Khosla Ventures, Temasek, Mayfield, Premji Invest, and Capricorn.
- Rhoda says it already works with industrial partners across manufacturing and logistics.
What critics are saying
- Tesla and Figure AI already dominate humanoid attention, hiring, and customer mindshare.
- Internet-video training lacks guaranteed factory reliability; one failed pilot can stall deployments in 2026.
- Without shipping revenue by 2027, Rhoda burns capital before customers trust its platform.
What makes Rhoda AI unique
- Rhoda trains robots on millions of internet videos, not scarce teleoperation demos.
- Jagdeep Singh, Gordon Wetzstein, and Vincent Clerc bring rare robotics, optics, and product depth.
- Rhoda targets industrial heavy-lifting bimanual work, where dexterity and payload matter most.
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