Hands-on Bay Area Robotics Systems Engineer

Robotics Stealth Startup; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Robotics Stealth Startup in the Bay Area is seeking a hands-on Robotics Systems Engineer to build and operate the robotic platforms behind our research. You will work across hardware, embedded systems, robot software, communications, calibration, data collection, evaluation, and deployment.

This role spans sensors to learned-policy evaluation; you will debug, integrate sensors/actuators, develop drivers, and build ROS-based software to enable robust, scalable robotic systems for cutting-edge

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Robotics, CS, EE, Mechatronics, or a related field.
• Experience integrating or operating complete robotic systems.
• Proficiency with Linux, Git, and Python or C++.
• Familiarity with ROS/ROS2 and ZMQ or similar frameworks.
• Knowledge of sensors, actuators, embedded electronics, networking, and robot system design.
• Understanding of robot-learning workflows and their hardware and electronics requirements.
• Experience with robot data collection or evaluation software.
• Strong cross-stack debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Experience using AI coding agents and validating generated code.

Responsibilities

• Bring up, integrate, and maintain humanoids, robotic arms, and custom platforms.
• Debug mechanical, electrical, networking, communication, and software failures.
• Integrate and help design sensors, actuators, motor controllers, embedded devices, compute, wiring, and power systems.
• Develop robot drivers, hardware interfaces, diagnostics, and automation in Python or C++.
• Build distributed robotics software using ROS, ROS 2, ZMQ, and related technologies.
• Maintain teleoperation, robot data collection, dataset validation, and policy-evaluation software.
• Calibration, functional testing, reliability testing, and performance characterization.
• Develop logging, monitoring, health checks, and fault-recovery tools.
• Work with ML researchers to deploy and evaluate learned policies on physical robots.
• Improve system reliability, safety, and maintainability.
• Use AI coding agents to accelerate implementation, testing, debugging, and documentation.

Skills

Linux

Git

Python

C++

Debugging

Cross-stack debugging

Problem solving

AI coding agents

Education

BS in Robotics / CS / EE / Mechatronics or related

Tools

ROS

ROS2

ZMQ

CAN

EtherCAT

DDS

SPI

UART

Jetson

Raspberry Pi

STM32

Job description

Robotics Stealth Startup in the Bay Area is seeking a hands-on Robotics Systems Engineer to build and operate the robotic platforms behind our research. You will work across hardware, embedded systems, robot software, communications, calibration, data collection, evaluation, and deployment.

This role spans sensors to learned-policy evaluation; you will debug, integrate sensors/actuators, develop drivers, and build ROS-based software to enable robust, scalable robotic systems for cutting-edge