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Our robots operate in demanding real-world environments alongside people and heavy cargo every day. We are a small, high-impact team based in Atlanta building products that are already deployed in production.\nThe Role\nWe are looking for a Robotics Hardware Integration Engineer to own the interface between software and hardware on our robot platforms. This means sensor drivers, motor controllers, embedded communication buses, power management interfaces, and the low-level software that makes the physical robot work. You will be the person who makes sure software commands translate into reliable real-world motion and that sensor data flows cleanly into the perception and navigation stacks.\nThis is not a pure embedded firmware role and not a pure software role-it sits at the intersection. We need someone who has worked at a robotics company integrating sensors, actuators, and compute hardware into a cohesive system. You should be equally comfortable reading a datasheet, writing a Linux device driver, and debugging a CAN bus trace.\nKey Responsibilities\nDevelop and maintain drivers for sensors (LiDAR, cameras, IMUs, encoders) and actuators (motor controllers, hydraulics, pneumatics) on Linux-based robot platforms\nOwn the communication layer between onboard compute and hardware subsystems (CAN bus, EtherCAT, serial, I2C/SPI)\nDesign and implement hardware abstraction layers that give upstream software teams clean, reliable interfaces\nIntegrate new sensors and hardware components as the robot platform evolves, including requirements definition, component selection, bring-up, calibration, and validation\nMonitor and manage robot system health: power, thermals, hardware diagnostics, and fault handling\nBuild and maintain AWS IoT Greengrass components for fleet-level device management, OTA updates, and cloud telemetry\nCollaborate with mechanical and electrical engineers on hardware design reviews to 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