- Robot type
- Humanoid
- Location
- FremontCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Hardware
- Posted
- Jul 17, 2026
- Salary
- $200,000–$400,000 a year
Full-time
Head of Robotics Engineering
Job description
Dexmate is building the foundation for physical AI — a unified platform that combines high-quality robotic hardware with a universal Physical AI OS, making robots as easy to build and deploy as software. Today, robotics is fragmented, slow, and closed: most builders are forced to reinvent the same stack again and again, and most ideas never make it past the prototype stage. We exist to change that. Our mission is to democratize robotics by lowering the barrier to entry, delivering a plug-and-play platform for developers, researchers, and enterprises, and cultivating an open ecosystem that accelerates the evolution of physical AI.
Job responsibilities
- Own the architecture and roadmap for robot-side firmware: real-time control loops, sensor/actuator interfaces, safety systems, and the low-level software running on the robot's onboard compute.
- Lead development of the control and planning stack: locomotion, manipulation, whole-body control, and the real-time systems that translate high-level commands into safe, reliable robot behavior.
- Lead controls, firmware, and hardware sustaining engineering for the deployed product line, including developing new capabilities on the existing platform — not just maintaining what's shipped, but extending it.
- Own the teleoperation system: the software and interfaces that let operators control robots remotely and collect training data, including latency, reliability, and operator-experience tradeoffs.
- Build and manage the customer support team, with clear escalation paths and response processes for issues arising from deployed robots.
- Turn customer feedback and fleet data into root-caused, prioritized engineering work; drive fixes through to validated releases deployed back to robots in the field.
- Investigate hardware failures arising from customer use and drive corrective actions in partnership with hardware and manufacturing teams — closing the loop from field failure to design or process fix.
- Build and lead the engineering training function: onboarding and up-skilling engineers (internal and field-facing) on firmware, controls, and teleoperation systems as the team and fleet scale.
Job requirements
- 8+ years in robotics engineering with a strong traditional foundation: dynamics, kinematics, control theory (impedance/admittance control, whole-body control), and state estimation.
- Experience owning a shipped hardware product post-launch: field root-cause analysis, firmware releases, and incremental improvement over the product's deployed life — not just pre-launch development.
- Still hands-on: writes and reviews production firmware/controls code regularly, not just architecture docs.