Robotics Generalist

Skip • San Francisco, CA

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

Skip is on a mission to make life joyful through powered movement. Movement 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. Skip 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.

Requirements

• 5+ years' experience in robotics
• Proven track record of writing software that runs on hardware
• Experience in small teams, ideally in start ups; you’re willing to wear many hats and chip in across the board
• Experience with embedded systems -- you can write C/C++ and you understand what's happening at the hardware level
• Proficiency in Python and/or C++ for algorithm development, data analysis, and test scripting, including common AI-coding tools (and their pitfalls)
• Strong foundation in control systems
• Experience with sensor integration and validation (IMUs, encoders, force sensors, or similar)
• Ability to work at the Skip Bay Area office at least 3 days/week

Nice To Haves

• Experience with wearable robotics, exoskeletons, or prosthetics
• Knowledge of motor control (field-oriented control for BLDC’s) and actuator characterisation
• Embedded linux experience
• Knowledge of communication protocols (e.g. CAN)
• Experience with deep learning, especially for robotic systems
• Experience with actuator characterisation and integration
• Familiarity with FreeRTOS or other real-time operating systems
• Experience shipping consumer hardware through DVT/PVT and into production
• Personal motivation to improve human movement

Responsibilities

• Architecting and implementing robotic software subsystems across our wearable robotics fleet, sharing components across different products and robot iterations.
• Ownership of core software and control features, including mechatronics firmware, motor control firmware, and platform features.
• Contribute to the real-time control loop, including sensing, decision making, logging, and safety monitoring / fault detection.
• Contributing to machine-learning-based methods across simulation, training, labeling, on-device inference, sensor data collection, and testing.
• Supporting 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.
• Collaborating with firmware, hardware, and software teammates to define interfaces, resolve cross-disciplinary tradeoffs, and catch integration failures early
• Contributing to system architecture decisions for current and future products, including our Parkinson's device and future Movewear platform
• Wear prototypes several hours a week to participate in data collection, on-body testing and provide feedback

Benefits

• equal opportunity employer
• hiring decisions are based on need and competence to satisfy said need
• 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
• offers of employment are conditional on candidates’ ability to provide satisfactory proof of eligibility to maintain full-time employment in the United States

What This Job Offers

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