- San Mateo, California, United States
- Senior
- $175K–$275K per year
- 5+ years
Robotics Systems Engineer
Compensation
$175,000—$275,000 USD
Responsibilities
- Define system-level specifications, interfaces, power budgets, and sensor suites across diverse robot morphologies, including quadrupeds, humanoids, and custom mobility platforms.
- Drive hands-on bring-up of new sensors, compute payloads, actuation systems, and custom power distribution architectures on third-party and in-house robotic hardware.
- Build hardware qualification pipelines, end-of-line functional tests, and diagnostic frameworks to verify system readiness before field deployment.
- Perform FMEA and run rapid root-cause investigations on hardware failures seen in field operation or aggressive policy stress testing.
- Partner with ML research engineers, mechanical design teams, and manufacturing technicians to turn software performance goals into hardware requirements and physical test fixtures.
Requirements
- Nice to have: systems engineering
- Nice to have: mechatronics
- Nice to have: robotics hardware development
- Nice to have: ML policy deployment
- Nice to have: industrial functional safety standards