Robotics Engineer

About the role

We’re a seed-stage team in San Francisco building robotic systems to automate real-world lab workflows. Our goal is to build a fully autonomous, “black-box” lab — systems that can take in high-level inputs and run physical workflows end-to-end without human intervention.

Responsibilities

• Design and build mechanical and electromechanical subsystems
• Write the code that actually runs the system (control logic, sequencing, hardware interfaces)
• Bring up new hardware and get it working end-to-end
• Debug failures across the full system — mechanical, electrical, and software
• Iterate until systems are stable and repeatable, not just working once

Requirements

• You’ve built and delivered at least one complex physical system with real ownership
• You’re comfortable writing code that interfaces directly with hardware
• Strong ability in at least one area:
• Mechanical design
• Controls
• Embedded / systems programming
• Experience working with motors, sensors, and power in a real system
• Good at solving unexpected problems

Preferred

• Experience building systems that had to run reliably over time, not just demos
• Prior startup, lab, or independent build experience

What you’ll do

Design and build mechanical and electromechanical subsystems
Write the code that actually runs the system (control logic, sequencing, hardware interfaces)
Bring up new hardware and get it working end-to-end
Debug failures across the full system — mechanical, electrical, and software
Iterate until systems are stable and repeatable, not just working once

Qualifications

You’ve built and delivered at least one complex physical system with real ownership
You’re comfortable writing code that interfaces directly with hardware
Strong ability in at least one area:

• Mechanical design
• Controls
• Embedded / systems programming

Experience working with motors, sensors, and power in a real system
Good at solving unexpected problems

Skills

• Ownership — you will be responsible for real parts of the system
• Comfort with ambiguity — we are still figuring things out
• Speed — we build and iterate quickly

Benefits

San Francisco (in-person)

Pay

$140k–$220k + equity

Schedule

In-person