Founding Robotics Software Engineer

Bracket Bot • San Francisco, CA

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

Bracket Bot is building low-cost, general-purpose robots that developers can program and deploy in days. We’re transforming the world’s ~50 million software engineers into robotics engineers by building a full-stack platform—hardware, software, infra, and ML—designed from first principles for performance, usability, and cost. Low expense is a design goal, not a constraint. By transforming commodity, mass-manufactured components through disciplined engineering, we deliver robots that are reliable, high-performance, and inexpensive to build and operate. We believe fewer than 1,000 engineers globally can reason about robotics as a true vertically-integrated system, and we’re assembling a small team of them to build an accessible, developer-first robotics platform. We’re backed by an amazing group of investors, co-led by Fifty Years (Scott Phoenix) and BoxGroup , with participation from Betaworks and Pace Capital , plus standout angels including Logan Kilpatrick (Google AI), Mohith Mothukuri (Physical Intelligence), and Guillermo Rauch (Vercel). Bracket Bot is building a low-expense, high-performance robotics platform ready for real-world deployment. About the role We’re hiring a Founding Robotics Software Engineer to own our navigation stack end-to-end. This is a core, full-time problem — not a side project. You’ll be responsible for making our robot reliably understand and move through real environments.

Requirements

• Strong robotics SWE background
• Experience with SLAM, mapping, navigation, or perception
• Comfort working with real robots (ROS or custom stacks)
• Bias toward robustness and simplicity

Nice To Haves

• Point clouds, COLMAP / SfM, Gaussian splatting
• Field robotics or autonomy experience

Responsibilities

• Own SLAM, mapping, localization, and path planning
• Work with point clouds, sensor fusion, and perception pipelines
• Debug sim → real gaps on physical robots
• Collaborate closely with mechanical and electrical engineers
• Push navigation into messy, real-world environments (not just demos)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed