Team Lead - Robotics

Weekday AI (YC W21); Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Weekday AI (YC W21) is building a new Physical AI team in Bengaluru to design and ship end-to-end robotic products, including legged robots and intelligent machines. The founding lead will own the roadmap, architecture, and hands-on development across hardware and AI software.

You will hire, guide engineers and interns, and drive the project from prototype to production, tackling real hardware challenges and delivering complete solutions.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on robotics experience.
• Experience turning prototypes into shipped products.
• Strong hardware-software integration skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Physical AI team end to end: set direction, roadmap, and build-vs-buy decisions.
• Architect the full robot: integrate mechanical, actuators, electronics, and software.
• Train and deploy learned controllers and policies; close sim-to-real gap.
• Hands-on coding, training models, debugging boards on real hardware.
• Hire and grow the founding team of engineers and interns.
• Own delivered robot components and fix issues end-to-end.

Skills

Robotics

Mechanical Engineering

Electronics

Artificial Intelligence

Job description

This role is for one of Weekday's clients

Min Experience: 4+ years

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

JobType: full-time

We are now setting up a new team for Physical AI. This team will be focussed on building and shipping end to end products. These products may include legged robots, humanoids and other kinds of intelligent machines. We plans to build everything in-house: the mechanical design, the actuators, the electronics, and the software/models that control them. You will be the founding lead of this team.

What you will work on

• Lead the Physical AI team end to end: set the technical direction, make the build-vs-buy calls, and own the roadmap from first prototype to shipped product
• Architect the full robot: how the mechanical systems, actuators, electronics, and software come together into one working machine
• Build the intelligence of the robot. Train and deploy learned controllers and policies (RL, imitation learning), close the sim-to-real gap, and use modern AI models for perception and control
• Stay hands-on. You will write code, train models, debug boards, and be at the bench when a leg cracks or a policy fails on real hardware
• Hire and grow the founding team of engineers and interns, and set the bar for how the team builds
• Own what you and your team build. When the robot fails mid-step, you fix it end to end

Who This Is For

• You have 4-8 years of experience building real robots or physical products that actually worked
• You combine robotics hardware depth with strong AI skills. You have trained policies or learned controllers that ran on real hardware, not just classical control or just simulation
• You are an extremely hands-on self starter, comfortable being the first person on the team and setting things up from scratch
• You have led engineers or projects before, formally or informally, and people want to work with you
• You are okay with things failing often, because in hardware they do
• We do not care much about GPA, publications, or where you interned. We care about what you have built and how you think about it

Must-have skills

Robotics

Good-to-have skills

Mechanical Engineering, Electronics, Artificial Intelligence