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We're focused on an ambitious goal to make generalized robots broadly accessible, enabling households to take back quality time.\nWe have spent the last 18 months building a talented team, securing capital, and validating our technology. We are now seeking passionate individuals to join us in the next phase of our growth. If you are ready to apply your skills to the forefront of robotics innovation, we’d love to hear from you.\nWhat to Expect\nThe ML & Robotics Infra team builds the foundational systems that every part of our robot perception, ML, controls and behavior runs on, and the developer infrastructure that lets us build, ship, and update that software quickly and safely on every robot in the fleet.\nAs a System Software Engineer, you’ll focus on the runtime itself which encompasses the IPC layer, performance, scheduling, observability, logging and replay infrastructure that the rest of the robot software depends on. 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