Jobs in Fremont, CA

About the role

You'll own the engineering organization responsible for making the robot work reliably in the real world — the firmware that runs on the robot, the control and planning systems that make it move and act intelligently, the teleoperation systems that let humans operate and collect data from it, and the technical training and support functions that keep robots running once they're deployed with customers and partners, etc. This is a hands-on leadership role spanning deep embedded/controls engineering, hardware root-cause investigation, and the operational discipline of supporting physical robots in the field. You'll need to be credible reviewing firmware and control-system code directly, lead root-cause analysis across mechanical, electrical, and firmware domains, and build the processes — training, escalation, support — that keep a growing fleet operating reliably

What you'll bring

• You'll need to be credible reviewing firmware and control-system code directly, lead root-cause analysis across mechanical, electrical, and firmware domains, and build the processes — training, escalation, support — that keep a growing fleet operating reliably
• 8+ years in robotics engineering with a strong traditional foundation: dynamics, kinematics, control theory (impedance/admittance control, whole-body control), and state estimation.
• Experience owning a shipped hardware product post-launch: field root-cause analysis, firmware releases, and incremental improvement over the product's deployed life — not just pre-launch development.
• Still hands-on: writes and reviews production firmware/controls code regularly, not just architecture docs.
• Experience with humanoid robots or other complex multi-DOF robotic systems specifically.
• Familiarity with the compute/networking stack robots typically run on (e.g., Jetson-class edge compute, EtherCAT, real-time Linux).
• Prior startup leadership experience
• ideally as an early robotics engineering leader scaling a team from single digits.