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Member of Technical Staff: Robot Systems – Industrial Robotics Location: San Francisco, CA Employment Type: Full-time Work Arrangement: On-site, 6 days per week Salary: $200K–$350K base Equity: Competitive equity Experience: 1–8 years Visa Sponsorship: Open to visa transfers, including OPT and H-1B transfers About the Role We are looking for a Robot Systems Engineer with 1–8 years of experience to own the critical layer between physical hardware and software infrastructure. You'll be a strong software engineer with embedded systems experience who can integrate robot arms, teleoperation rigs, and sensor systems into reliable, production-grade stacks — not just firmware, but the full picture. You'll be building infrastructure for robots operating across hundreds of miles with sub-200ms round-trip latency. You should be startup-minded, comfortable moving quickly, and able to debug across hardware-software boundaries in ambiguous environments. What You Will Be Doing • Build infrastructure for deployed robots operating at scale, ensuring sub-200ms round-trip latency across hundreds of miles. • Integrate new robot arms, haptic devices, teleoperation rigs, and sensor systems into reliable software stacks used by research and deployment teams. • Debug hardware-software integration issues across drivers, communication protocols, calibration systems, and physical hardware. • Develop software interfaces and abstraction layers connecting hardware to ML training and data pipelines. • Partner with ML and hardware teams to rapidly operationalize new hardware capabilities. What We're Looking For • 1+ years of experience in embedded or systems engineering integrating hardware into software stacks. • Strong software engineering skills with embedded systems and hardware SDKs. • Experience integrating robots, sensors, devices, or other hardware into production software systems. • Comfort debugging problems across hardware and software boundaries. • Ability to work on-site in San Francisco 6 days per week. Preferred Experience • Experience at a robotics, autonomous vehicle, drone, or physical AI company. • Experience with real-time systems where output cannot stall or latency has meaningful consequences. • Familiarity with ROS or other robotics middleware. • Experience with communication protocols, embedded systems, hardware SDKs, or distributed systems. • Hardware debugging or electrical engineering experience is beneficial. Tech Stack • ROS (Robot Operating System) • Hardware SDKs • Communication Protocols • Embedded Systems • Real-Time Systems About the Company This is an early-stage robotics and AI company building and deploying autonomous robots for real-world industrial environments. The company approaches robotics as a full-stack engineering problem, combining hardware, machine learning, software infrastructure, and deployment systems to build highly reliable robotic systems. The team is approximately 20 employees and has raised more than $20M in funding. Team members come from highly regarded AI, robotics, software, and technology organizations. Compensation $200K–$350K base salary plus competitive equity. Compensation depends on experience and background. Location & Work Arrangement This is a full-time, on-site position in San Francisco, CA. Candidates must be able to work from the office 6 days per week . Visa Sponsorship The company is open to visa transfers, including OPT and H-1B transfers .

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Member of Technical Staff: Robot Systems – Industrial Robotics
Location: San Francisco, CA
Employment Type: Full-time
Work Arrangement: On-site, 6 days per week
Salary: $200K–$350K base
Equity: Competitive equity
Experience: 1–8 years
Visa Sponsorship: Open to visa transfers, including OPT and H-1B transfers
We are looking for a Robot Systems Engineer with 1–8 years of experience to own the critical layer between physical hardware and software infrastructure.
You'll be a strong software engineer with embedded systems experience who can integrate robot arms, teleoperation rigs, and sensor systems into reliable, production-grade stacks — not just firmware, but the full picture.
What You Will Be Doing
Build infrastructure for deployed robots operating at scale, ensuring sub-200ms round-trip latency across hundreds of miles.
Integrate new robot arms, haptic devices, teleoperation rigs, and sensor systems into reliable software stacks used by research and deployment teams.
Debug hardware-software integration issues across drivers, communication protocols, calibration systems, and physical hardware.

Nice-to-haves

Experience at a robotics, autonomous vehicle, drone, or physical AI company.
Experience with real-time systems where output cannot stall or latency has meaningful consequences.
Familiarity with ROS or other robotics middleware.
Experience with communication protocols, embedded systems, hardware SDKs, or distributed systems.
Hardware debugging or electrical engineering experience is beneficial.
ROS (Robot Operating System)
Hardware SDKs
Communication Protocols
Embedded Systems
Real-Time Systems

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