Jobs in Normal, IL

About the role

Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.

What you'll bring

• 3+ years managing engineers — field, hardware, infrastructure, or platform — including hiring, coaching, and growth
• Deep hands-on troubleshooting background with embedded devices, single-board computers, cameras, or similar hardware
• enough depth to review an engineer's diagnosis rather than take it on faith.
• Comfort with Linux system administration and Bash or Python: you can still read a systemd unit, a provisioning script, or a tcpdump capture yourself.
• Solid networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, subnets, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, firewall rules) and the judgment to tell our problem from the customer's network.
• Customer-facing maturity: you can own a hard conversation about an outage or a slipped date without spending the relationship.
• The self-direction to run a site away from HQ, and the discipline to keep HQ informed before they have to ask.
• Experience standing up or scaling a forward deployed, field service, or solutions engineering team (nice to have).
• Prior time as a Forward Deployed Engineer or in a similar onsite role — you've done the job you're now managing (nice to have).
• Familiarity with fleet and infrastructure tooling: Docker, Portainer, Ansible, Grafana/Prometheus, remote device management (nice to have).
• Background in robotics deployment, computer vision systems, IP cameras, or industrial IoT (nice to have).
• Experience running incident response and postmortem practice across a distributed fleet (nice to have).