Robot Systems Engineer - Hardware IntegrationDo 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 doIntegrate new robot arms, haptic devices, teleoperation rigs and sensors into reliable software stacks used by research and deployment teamsBuild infrastructure for deployed robots, keeping round-trip latency under 200ms across hundreds of milesDebug hardware-software problems across drivers, communication protocols, calibration and physical hardwareBuild the software interfaces that connect hardware to ML training and data pipelinesWork with the ML and hardware teams to get new hardware capabilities into production fastWhat we're looking for1 - 8 years of experience, including 2+ years integrating hardware into software stacksStrong 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 stallBonus: ROS or other robotics middleware, and experience at a robotics, AV or physical AI companyYou're startup-minded, learn fast, and are comfortable debugging when the answer isn't obviousWhy joinOwn a critical layer: you'll sit between the hardware and the AI, at the heart of the productEarly and well funded: join a small team at the start, with competitive equityReal robots, real deployment: your work runs on physical machines in industryVisa support: transfers and new sponsorships welcome (H-1B, OPT, TN)6 days a week on-site in San FranciscoAt HFBAC we look at team fit alongside your CV, so you only talk to companies where you'll genuinely thrive.
Robot Systems Engineer in san francisco at Unknown Company
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