Member of Technical Staff: Robot Systems - Industrial Robotics (SF)

Job Description

Job Description

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 .