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Our team has more than a century of combined experience solving some of the toughest challenges in autonomous vehicles, robotics, and operations at Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook. We have robots operating around the world providing reliable and cost-effective solutions for industrial and last-mile delivery use cases.\nThe AI powering our robots makes them the safest, most reliable and versatile in the market today. Our system runs on small delivery robots as well as industrial robots weighing up to multiple tons. We own the full stack from hardware design & firmware over edge AI to orchestration & management in the cloud. Excellence & value for our customers drives our decisions. We highly value high ownership & high contribution individuals to keep our management & communication structure lean, pleasant & effective.\nYou can read more about Cartken here.\nOur mission\nBring safe and reliable mobile robots to new frontiers.\nWhy join us\nWe’re passionate about applying state-of-the-art technology to solve real-world problems and become the brains behind an automation revolution\n\nWe’re fast and thrive on making an impact\n\nYou get to work alongside a diverse team of super talented people across USA and Germany\n\nYou’ll also get to build a growing startup and by default do and learn a ton\n\nWhat you'll do\nBridge the gap: Develop and maintain the hardware abstraction layers that allow our higher-level autonomy modules to interact seamlessly with the physical robot.\n\nOwn the hardware interfaces: Write and maintain robust C++ user-space drivers for our sensors and actuators (I2C, SPI, CAN, Serial), guaranteeing clean, high-quality data flows into the autonomy stack.\n\nChampion system safety: Design and implement fail-safes and critical safety functions-from electronic-stop logic to collision avoidance and system health monitoring-at both the firmware and middleware levels.\n\nDeploy on edge compute: Build and deploy containerized robotics applications for edge computing platforms. You'll ensure high-performance access to hardware peripherals and leverage hardware acceleration (GPU/NPU/DSP) to power our autonomy tasks.\n\nShape the autonomy stack: While your core responsibility resides on the system side, you will actively contribute to our higher-level robotics modules. 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