Robotics Engineer (Robotics)

Location: San Francisco, California

Salary: $98,000–$305,000 annually, plus equity compensation and benefits.

Company

LUDO ROBOTICS is a Bay Area startup building general-purpose robotic intelligence systems, supported by hirify.global's AI Center and backed by hirify.global, a global video game company. The company is headquartered in California and has an office in Seoul, Korea.

What you will do

• Design, develop, deploy, configure, and validate software for robotic systems across navigation, motion planning and control, SLAM, perception, manipulation, and high-level behaviors.
• Write and maintain production-grade C++ and Python code for robotic platforms.
• Integrate sensors, actuators, and compute, and lead hardware bring-up, calibration, and validation on physical robots.
• Deploy and monitor robotic solutions in production environments and field sites, ensuring reliability and robust performance.
• Test, troubleshoot, and debug applications by tracing failures across hardware, software, and model layers and reproducing edge cases.
• Collaborate with ML, robotics, hardware, operations, and R&D teams to deploy models, improve algorithms, maintain documentation, and optimize system performance.

Requirements

• BS, MS, or higher degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3–5+ years of hands-on experience in robotics application development, system integration, or field deployment.
• Proficiency in C++ and Python.
• Hands-on experience developing and deploying software on real robots.
• Working knowledge of ROS, ROS2, or other robotics middleware platforms.
• Strong systems-level understanding of robotic software modules, interfaces, and their interaction with hardware.

Nice to have

• Technical depth in navigation, motion planning and control, SLAM, perception or computer vision, or manipulation.
• Experience integrating and deploying machine learning models on robotic systems.
• Background in autonomous systems such as robotics, drones, autonomous vehicles, or industrial automation.
• Experience with vision systems, simulation tools, sensor integration and calibration, embedded systems, or real-time systems.
• Strong foundations in algorithms, data structures, system design, analysis, and problem-solving.

Culture & Benefits

• Ownership, speed, and intellectual curiosity are valued.
• Work alongside teams with backgrounds ranging from new graduates to experienced domain experts.
• Access to hirify.global's technical partnerships, infrastructure, and talent networks.
• Equity compensation and a comprehensive benefits package.
• Equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodation are provided for qualified applicants.