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Robot type
Robot AI and Software
Location
San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Software
Posted
Jun 4, 2026
Salary
$380,000–$445,000 a year
Full-time

Firmware Engineer, Robotics

Job description

We are building general-purpose robotics. In the short term, we are focused on robots to support skilled workers to build our future infrastructure. In the long term, we imagine everyone having a personal robot doing anything they need. Progress is rapid, and based on a foundation of co-design between robotics hardware and ML research.

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Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair…

Job responsibilities

  • Rapidly bring up new hardware and set execution pace for the team.
  • Lead firmware architecture for embedded systems spanning boot, RTOS/runtime behavior, peripheral control, power management, communications, and field diagnostics.
  • Define engineering standards for reliability, fault tolerance, observability, and maintainability across the firmware stack.
  • Design and review safety-critical mechanisms, including fault detection, recovery paths, watchdog strategies, redundancy where appropriate, and safe-state behavior.
  • Build quick, scrappy prototypes when speed of learning matters, then harden the right ideas into production-quality systems.
  • Partner closely with engineers in hardware, software, and AI research from early prototype through production.
  • Build rigorous bring-up, validation, and release processes for embedded platforms.
  • Establish testing strategies across unit, hardware-in-the-loop, integration, stress, and failure-injection testing.
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