{"id":863470,"url":"https://alion.io/job/skipwithjoy-robotics-generalist","title":"Robotics Generalist","company":{"id":695243,"name":"Skip","domain":"skipwithjoy.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/skipwithjoy","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"D","score":46,"open_postings":10,"ghost_share":0.9,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Sales","role_family":"Sales","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Francisco, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":134000,"max_usd":281000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":1808},"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"C++","optional":false},{"name":"Edge AI","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"FreeRTOS","optional":true},{"name":"Linux","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-05-06T22:54:18Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-05-06","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T18:39:14Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":140,"trust":{"level":"ghost","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale","company_stale"],"days_open":139},"description":"ABOUT US:\nSkip is on a mission to make life joyful through powered movement.\nMovement is a powerful way to build physical, mental and social health. Yet it is elusive for 2 billion people due to age, injury, or disability. We are building products that will restore mobility for millions and enable a new frontier of joyful movement experiences. We want to build a future where a grandparent can easily outrun their grandkids and no one is left behind at the trailhead.\nSkip is a 22-person early-stage start-up that spun out of Google X in 2023. With deep cross-disciplinary expertise and key partnerships (e.g. with Arc’teryx) we are uniquely positioned to launch the first commercially successful wearable robotic device, the MO/GO, develop a platform to launch future Movewear products and transform millions of lives in the coming years.\nTHE ROLE:\nWe are seeking a senior robotics engineer to own the software that makes our wearable robots move. You'll work across the full stack, from the on-device control loop running in real time on a person's body, to the broader software platform that supports it: data pipelines, device management, tooling, and everything in between\nSome of the things you will work on:\nArchitecting and implementing robotic software subsystems across our wearable robotics fleet, sharing components across different products and robot iterations.\n\nOwnership of core software and control features, including mechatronics firmware, motor control firmware, and platform features.\n\nContribute to the real-time control loop, including sensing, decision making, logging, and safety monitoring / fault detection.\n\nContributing to machine-learning-based methods across simulation, training, labeling, on-device inference, sensor data collection, and testing.\n\nSupporting and contributing to hardware-in-the-loop and on-body test frameworks that validate system behaviour across the full range of real-world conditions, including at device provisioning / factory bring-up.\n\nCollaborating with firmware, hardware, and software teammates to define interfaces, resolve cross-disciplinary tradeoffs, and catch integration failures early\n\nContributing to system architecture decisions for current and future products, including our Parkinson's device and future Movewear platform\n\nWear prototypes several hours a week to participate in data collection, on-body testing and provide feedback\n\nBasic Qualifications:\n5+ years' experience in robotics\n\nProven track record of writing software that runs on hardware\n\nExperience in small teams, ideally in start ups; you’re willing to wear many hats and chip in across the board\n\nExperience with embedded systems -- you can write C/C++ and you understand what's happening at the hardware level\n\nProficiency in Python and/or C++ for algorithm development, data analysis, and test scripting, including common AI-coding tools (and their pitfalls)\n\nStrong foundation in control systems\n\nExperience with sensor integration and validation (IMUs, encoders, force sensors, or similar)\n\nAbility to work at the Skip Bay Area office at least 3 days/week\n\nBonus Points:\nExperience with wearable robotics, exoskeletons, or prosthetics\n\nKnowledge of motor control (field-oriented control for BLDC’s) and actuator characterisation\n\nEmbedded linux experience\n\nKnowledge of communication protocols (e.g. CAN)\n\nExperience with deep learning, especially for robotic systems\n\nExperience with actuator characterisation and integration\n\nFamiliarity with FreeRTOS or other real-time operating systems\n\nExperience shipping consumer hardware through DVT/PVT and into production\n\nPersonal motivation to improve human movement\n\nThis is a full time hybrid position working at the Skip office in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco.\nSkip is an equal opportunity employer. Our hiring decisions are based on need and competence to satisfy said need. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected status.\nAny and all offers of employment extended by Skip are conditional on candidates’ ability to provide satisfactory proof of eligibility to maintain full-time employment in the United States.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4275,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","Consumer Goods"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-13T11:41:33Z"}],"liveness":{"score":4,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.153,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":139,"expected_fill_days":30,"reasons":["conf:1","stale_co","ghost","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/skipwithjoy-robotics-generalist","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/skipwithjoy-robotics-generalist.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-23T23:41:30Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}