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Robotics Engineer

Redwood City, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-24 → 2026-09-26

Core

Bring up commercial robot platforms (humanoids, arms, mobile bases) to wire up sensors and data pipelines for world model evaluation and real-world testing.

Role type

Founding Robotics Engineer (Systems Integration)

Builds

Robot-to-training data pipelines, test rigs, and benchmarks for model evaluation

Domain

Robotics, AI/ML, Physical World Interaction

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Systems integration, ROS/ROS2, Python, Linux, sensor integration (cameras, depth, IMU), real-time control, hardware debugging, data pipeline management

Preferred skills

Humanoid/manipulator vendor experience (Unitree, Figure, 1X, Agility, Franka), research lab background

Technologies

ROS, ROS2, Python, Linux

Responsibilities

Operate off-the-shelf robot platforms for model evaluation, integrate sensors for world-model rollouts, own data pipeline from robot to training, build test rigs and benchmarks, debug failures across hardware and drivers, translate model requirements into robot actions

Seniority

Founding, hands-on IC

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