Staff Hardware Engineer, Robotics Systems & Deployments

About Us

Nidus is building autonomous manufacturing systems powered by AI and robotics. U.S. manufacturers are under growing pressure to increase output while navigating workforce constraints, underutilized equipment, and increasingly complex supply chains. We believe the next generation of manufacturing will be enabled by more intelligent, flexible automation—systems that help people and machines work together to expand capacity and improve productivity. We're building the intelligence layer that makes that possible. Our team comes from the intersection of defense technology and AI. We've built and shipped products to DoD customers, and we bring deep experience across ML, robotics, product development, and defense. We're a small, in-person team in New York City working on hard problems that matter. If you want to build the future of American manufacturing, we'd love to hear from you.

About the role

We are building vision-language-action models that enable robots to perform complex manipulation tasks in real-world environments. The quality, reliability, and scalability of the hardware used to collect data and deploy these systems are fundamental to our success. We are looking for a Staff Hardware Engineer to define and lead the technical architecture for our robotic data-collection platforms, end effectors, camera systems, and customer workcells. You will own major hardware programs from early requirements and system architecture through validation, production, and fleet deployment. This is a senior individual-contributor role with broad technical influence and a clear path to leadership. You will establish engineering standards, resolve complex cross-disciplinary tradeoffs, lead high-risk design efforts, and create reusable hardware platforms that can support new manipulation tasks, robot embodiments, and customer environments. You will remain deeply hands-on—designing hardware, building prototypes,