Senior Robotics Systems Engineer (Robotics)

Location: San Francisco, CA; onsite in the office five days a week. Periodic travel to customer sites of up to 10% is required, with some schedule flexibility during deployments.

Base salary: $176,000–$242,000 per year, plus potential equity awards.

Company

Builds Physical AI and real-world robotic systems for food, mining, transport, and other industries.

What you will do

• Develop, integrate, test, and validate autonomy features for autonomous trucks.
• Debug issues across sensors, compute, networking, controls, and software stacks using logs, metrics, and on-vehicle tools.
• Lead technical execution during deployments, including bring-up plans, risk identification, requirements communication, and cross-team coordination.
• Support field deployments at customer sites with hands-on vehicle debugging and safety-critical troubleshooting.
• Integrate new truck platforms by adding sensors and vehicle signals, calibrating systems, and tuning performance.
• Collaborate with hardware, operations, safety, and product teams to deliver robust and maintainable autonomy behavior.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional software development experience, excluding internships.
• Strong programming skills in at least one of Python, C++, Java, or C#, with object-oriented design experience.
• Robotics engineering experience with system-level ownership, integration, debugging, performance tuning, field support, or deployments.
• Knowledge of state estimation, Kalman filtering, localization, planning, and controls.
• Experience leading technical projects through planning, execution, and deployment, with strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Familiarity with sensor fusion, safety systems, camera pipelines, ML for perception, CAN vehicle interfaces, calibration workflows, Linux, Git, CI/CD, and simulation or test harnesses.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on physical automation systems deployed in real-world environments.
• Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
• Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account options.
• 401(k), equity, unlimited flexible time off, sick time, and paid holidays.
• Paid parental leave and pre-tax commuter benefits.
• Team lunch at the SoMa office every Tuesday and Thursday.