Software Engineer, Robotics

Applied Intuition•Sunnyvale, CA

27d•$189,700 - $271,000•Onsite

About The Position

We are building general-purpose robots capable of performing real work in real environments. As a Robotics Engineer on our Robotics team, you will work across the full stack — from low-level controls and firmware to locomotion behaviors, manipulation, and fleet deployment. This is a hands-on, cross-functional role where your work ships to physical hardware and your impact is immediate. You will collaborate closely with mechanical, electrical, firmware, and AI/ML teams and own subsystem integration end to end.

Requirements

BS or MS in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent hands-on experience
4+ years of professional experience in robotics development, with at least some of that on physical hardware rather than purely in simulation
Strong proficiency in C++ (C++14/17/20), including multithreading, memory management, and real-time systems; Python for tooling and scripting
Solid robotics fundamentals: kinematics, dynamics, control theory, and state estimation
Experience with embedded or low-level systems and familiarity with communication protocols such as CAN, EtherCAT, Ethernet, and serial
Ability to work effectively in a Linux development environment and debug complex hardware-software interactions
Comfort operating and iterating directly on robot hardware

Nice To Haves

Experience with bi-dexterous robots
Familiarity with ROS/ROS2 or similar robotics middleware
Exposure to reinforcement learning or imitation learning workflows and deploying learned policies to hardware
Experience with physics simulators such as MuJoCo, Gazebo, or NVIDIA Isaac Sim
Background in SLAM, path planning, or perception pipelines
Understanding of sensor fusion across IMU, lidar, cameras, and force/torque sensors
Prior work in an environment with rapid hardware iteration and tight design cycles

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and tune core robotics software spanning locomotion, whole-body control, and manipulation for bi-dexterous robot platforms
Bring up software and hardware on new robot generations and own subsystem integration across actuators, sensors, motor controllers, and onboard compute
Develop and maintain real-time control software in C++ with a strong emphasis on reliability, performance, and testability
Build simulation infrastructure and validate behaviors in physics-based environments before deploying to hardware
Debug failures on physical robots and analyze telemetry and log data to identify root causes and improve system robustness
Contribute to tooling that scales, including fleet monitoring, behavior testing pipelines, operator interfaces, and CI/CD infrastructure
Work with teleoperation and data collection systems to inform learning-based policy development