CareerPlan

Lead Fleet Perfomance Engineer

Wallingford, OXFull-time2026-10-27 → 2026-11-10
On-site

Core

Build the function that knows what the fleet is doing, what it will do next, and what to fix first by defining fleet health, investigating behavior from logs/telemetry, and managing diagnostic data capture.

Role type

Lead Fleet Performance Engineer (Robotics Operations)

Builds

Fleet health monitoring, alerting systems, diagnostic data pipelines, and preventive maintenance schedules for autonomous robot fleets.

Domain

Robotics / Logistics / Fleet Operations

Required skills

Reliability engineering, SRE, platform operations, telemetry analysis, observability, Linux, distributed systems, ROS, Python, SQL, Grafana

Preferred skills

Data-driven engineering, systems depth, leadership, team building

Technologies

ROS, Linux, Grafana, Python, SQL, time-series data

Responsibilities

Define and own fleet health metrics and reporting; investigate fleet-wide behavior from logs and telemetry; own fleet diagnostic data capture and log pipelines; manage alert thresholds and escalation; develop pre-failure detection for robot subsystems; own fleet configuration management and drift detection; build the top-failure-modes register; report fleet health to Service and Engineering teams; hire, coach, and grow the team.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities