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Today, robotics is fragmented, slow, and closed: most builders are forced to reinvent the same stack again and again, and most ideas never make it past the prototype stage. We exist to change that. Our mission is to democratize robotics by lowering the barrier to entry, delivering a plug-and-play platform for developers, researchers, and enterprises, and cultivating an open ecosystem that accelerates the evolution of physical AI.\nIf you want to help shape the next layer of human capability - and believe the future of robotics should be built together, not in isolation - we'd love to build it with you.\nThe Role\nYou'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.\nThis 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. 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running on physical hardware.\n\nStay hands-on - write and review code directly on critical systems, especially firmware and control-system work where getting the fundamentals right early prevents expensive rework later.\n\nPartner directly with the CEO, the software platform architecture lead, and mechanical/electrical engineering to keep robot-side software, cloud platform, and hardware development in sync.\n\nRepresent robot engineering to enterprise partners and customers during technical evaluations, pilots, and escalations.\n\nMinimum Qualifications\nCore experience\n8+ years in robotics engineering with a strong traditional foundation: dynamics, kinematics, control theory (impedance/admittance control, whole-body control), and state estimation.\n\nExperience 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.\n\nStill hands-on: writes and 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