Robotic Systems Engineer
hfbac hiring for building awesome companiesMillbrae (CA)
Robotic Systems Engineer
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hfbac hiring for building awesome companiesMillbrae (CA)
SENIORITY
Lead
About the role
Robot Systems Engineer - Hardware Integration Do you love the layer where robots meet software, and want to own it end to end? I'm partnering with a newly founded, well-funded robotics startup in San Francisco. They're building bi-manual robots to automate industrial labour, and they treat robotics as a full-stack problem: hardware, machine learning and deployment infrastructure, built in-house to reach 99.9%+ reliability. Their team comes from leading AI labs, top tech companies and autonomous vehicle companies.
What you'll do:
- Integrate new robot arms, haptic devices, teleoperation rigs and sensors into reliable software stacks used by research and deployment teams
- Build infrastructure for deployed robots, keeping round-trip latency under 200ms across hundreds of miles
- Debug hardware-software problems across drivers, communication protocols, calibration and physical hardware
- Build the software interfaces that connect hardware to ML training and data pipelines
- Work with the ML and hardware teams to get new hardware capabilities into production fast
What we're looking for:
- 1 - 8 years of experience, including 2+ years integrating hardware into software stacks
- Strong software engineering with embedded systems and hardware SDKs (this is essential)
- You've integrated robots, sensors or hardware into production systems (this is essential)
- Real-time systems experience where the output can't stall
Bonus:
ROS or other robotics middleware, and experience at a robotics, AV or physical AI company You're startup-minded, learn fast, and are comfortable debugging when the answer isn't obvious
Why join:
- Own a critical layer: you'll sit between the hardware and the AI, at the heart of the product
- Early and well funded: join a small team at the start, with competitive equity
- Real robots, real deployment: your work runs on physical machines in industry
- Visa support: transfers and new sponsorships welcome (H-1B, OPT, TN)6 days a week on-site in San Francisco
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