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Dexmate

Robot type
Humanoid
Location
FremontCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Hardware
Posted
Jul 17, 2026
Salary
$200,000–$400,000 a year
Full-time

Robotics Engineering Lead

Job description

If you want to help shape the next layer of human capability — and believe the future of robotics should be built together, not in isolation — we'd love to build it with you.

Dexmate is building the foundation for physical AI — combining a new generation of robots 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.

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.
  • Experience with humanoid robots or other complex multi-DOF robotic systems specifically.
  • Prior startup leadership experience, ideally as an early robotics engineering leader scaling a team from single digits.
  • Familiarity with the compute/networking stack robots typically run on (e.g., Jetson-class edge compute, EtherCAT, real-time Linux).
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