Robotics / Hardware Engineer at Lumen Labs
Core
Building the cognitive layer for physical AI by developing hardware and infrastructure for research platforms in unstructured environments.
Role type
Senior IC robotics/hardware engineer
Builds
Research platforms for physical AI, including wheeled robots, drones, and pipeline inspection systems
Domain
Robotics, AI, Hardware
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Embedded systems, Python, ROS2, sensor integration, hardware debugging, firmware development
Preferred skills
Experience with mobile robots, zero-shot sim2real transfer, drone systems
Technologies
ROS2 (Humble), ESP32, LiDAR, IMU, encoders, UART, PWM
Responsibilities
Integrate and calibrate sensors (LiDAR, depth, IMU, encoders), maintain ROS2 stack across onboard/offboard compute, debug hardware and firmware simultaneously, deploy trained policies to real hardware
Seniority
Early-stage startup, hands-on IC
