Senior Research Engineer

Location

Mountain View, CA

Full time

On-site

Software Perception

Matic is revolutionizing home robotics by building the world's first truly autonomous robots. We're on a mission to recapture the 2.5 trillion hours annually spent on home chores, worth $25 trillion in wasted economic value, with fully autonomous, useful, elegant, and affordable robots that families love.

Our first product, Matic, is a Wall‑E‑esque floor cleaning robot that families love and cannot fathom their lives without. We've built what amounts to “self‑driving for homes” — precise 3D mapping, real‑time SLAM, and semantic understanding that works reliably in real homes, all achieved through breakthrough spatial AI technology using only RGB cameras and neural networks with all processing on‑device for complete privacy.

Privacy first
Our robots are also private by design, with all the computes on the edge device. We believe that families shouldn't have to jeopardize their privacy just to get some help with the constant drudgery of home chores.

Our approach
In 2017, we observed 200+ self‑driving car startups and an equal number of industrial robotics startups, but the home robotics space had been dramatically overlooked. While AI is becoming ubiquitous, families are still stuck spending dozens of hours per week on repetitive household chores.

Just like consumers adopted cell phones, then PDAs, then iPods before adopting the iPhone to replace them all, we believe consumers will adopt single‑purpose, elegant robots first before getting one‑robot‑to‑rule‑all‑chores. Our goal is to continue automating household labor, shipping useful, affordable, privacy‑first robots while building iteratively toward more complex capabilities over time.

Who we are
We are a consumer robotics product company solving real customer problems. We start with a problem, think of an elegant solution in the form of robots, and conduct necessary research to build products that just work. We believe families want solutions to their problems, and AI & robots enable us to solve them.

Who we are NOT
We are NOT a Robotics Foundation Model research lab, a humanoid builder, or a robotics software platform company. We build fully autonomous, useful, elegant, and affordable Wall‑E‑esque robotic products that kids, pets, and families love!

How we behave
Matic is a tight‑knit and collaborative team, singularly focused on building products our customers will cherish. We are ultra‑hardworking people committed to solving tough problems that save precious time and energy.

At Matic, we're eager to take risks and test convention. We love diving headfirst into hard problems — even if it means some failures along the way. We work smart, hard, and long (in that order), chasing innovation and human impact. We highly value individual ownership and take meticulous pride in the work we do, knowing our efforts affect both one another and our customers.

Those who value curiosity and learning and who don't shy away from hard problems thrive  you are genuinely committed to innovation and improving the lives of others, we'd love to hear from you.

We're seeking a Senior Research Engineer to lead cutting‑edge perception research and drive our autonomous robotics platform forward. This is an opportunity to shape the technical direction of our perception stack while mentoring a growing team of engineers.

The ideal candidate has a passion for solving problems and deploying those solutions to real, working products. We’re looking for detail‑obsessed “idea machines”, able to push beyond the current state of the art to break new ground in robotic perception.

• Lead research initiatives to solve complex, open‑ended perception problems for unstructured home environments
• Architect and develop state‑of‑the‑art computer vision algorithms that push beyond current industry capabilities
• Design novel neural network architectures optimized for edge deployment and real‑time performance
• Pioneer advanced 3D geometry‑based vision systems that enable precise spatial understanding
• Build and scale robust machine learning infrastructure supporting large‑scale training…