Member of Technical Staff, Robotics Systems Engineer

We envision a world where no manual labor is required to build anything and everything we want.

A Safe world with abundant creativity.

We're building a rapidly scalable, high-performing robotic system for fully autonomous factories. We deliver across multiple embodiments — bimanual / single-arm stations, wheeled humanoids, and mobile manipulators — on a shared stack. Every task we ship has to hit ≥99% success at human or industrial-automation cycle time.

Physical AI is moving fast. Academia and research-focused startups have shown promising early results, but very few have shipped robots that work at industrial precision, speed, and reliability. We have, and that gap is our work.

We invite highly talented AI and robotics engineers excited to join a hyper-scaling startup. You ll work tirelessly to ship first products to early customers while building the foundation models and robots to reshape global manufacturing.

What we believe

• Real-world deployment beats paper benchmarks. Our bar is what runs at customer cycle time with high success rate and dexterity. Every shift, for months and years.
• Commercialized Data Flywheel is critical for Scalable Foundation Models. We re not waiting until our foundation model is ready. We build and deploy working robots, while also building a data pipeline to feed into our foundation model.
• Hardware iteration speed is a moat. Custom grippers, mobile platforms, and data rigs at production runs of dozens to hundreds. Moving fast from hardware design to deployment is what wins.

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Role:
Member of Technical Staff,
Robotics Systems Engineer

Why this role matters

We re building one robotic system — a shared stack that scales across embodiments and customers. Holding that product together as it scales is a multi-disciplinary problem: requirements, architecture, interfaces, vendor decisions, integration plan, and acceptance criteria all have to converge on time across mechanical, electrical, firmware, software, and sensors. We need someone who can drive the system s technical architecture across all of that, hold the product picture across programs, and keep it coherent as we add embodiments and customers.

Customer programs are the proving ground that hardens the product, not the source of one-off specs. As part of a small, fast-growing startup, you will be expected to also own the product up to deployment and serve the TPM role as well.

What you ll do

• Drive system architecture, requirements, and interface definitions across mechanical, electrical, firmware, software, and sensors as the product scales across embodiments and customers.
• Drive vendor selection and qualification for various components to integrate into the system, e.g. cameras, arms, end-effectors, controllers, motors, and sensors.
• Define integration and acceptance criteria, and partner with deployment so customer programs harden the product rather than fork it.

Required

• Education. BS in ME, EE, or Robotics; equivalent industry depth. Strong expertise in two of mechanical, electrical, or software to specify and review the others.
• Experience. 8+ years shipping robotic or hardware systems to paying customers. Has driven a product end-to-end — defined the architecture, qualified the vendors, drove integration, and shipped it through customer acceptance.
• Multi-discipline systems depth. Has authored real interface control documents and architecture specs across mechanical, electrical, firmware, and software, not just reviewed them.
• Decides at 70% information. Can frame and resolve a real architecture decision under uncertainty and ship the answer in days. Makes and defends architectural calls before all the data is in. Does not require gated review boards to move.
• Vendor management. Has run RFQ to sample to qualification to second-source for components that mattered; signed contracts, owned the relationship, caught real defects.
• V-model systems engineering, startup-adapted. Has run requirements, design, integration, and verification on real hardware without being slowed by gated review boards.
• Reads code. Python / C++ / ROS-level fluency. Can drill into perception, motion, or…