Robotics Deployment Engineer

physicalintelligence; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Physical Intelligence, a San Francisco-based robotics AI company, seeks engineers to deploy and debug policies on real robots. You’ll curate data, train policies, and integrate software with hardware in customer environments.

You will collaborate with researchers and operators to observe deployments, iterating toward robust, production-ready systems. This role emphasizes practical results and clear communication.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience deploying robots in real-world environments.
• Strong Python programming and ability to interface with infrastructure.
• Ability to debug the full stack from perception to control.
• Practical mindset focused on delivering working systems.
• Clear communication with researchers, operators, and partners.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and debug learned policies on physical robots, diagnosing failures across perception, policy, control, and hardware.
• Train and tune policies, curate data, and iterate to improve real-world performance.
• Write production-quality code that interfaces with Pi’s infrastructure.
• Work with operators to set up tests, evaluations, and data collection pipelines.
• Engage with partners to understand use cases and observe robots in deployment contexts.
• Bridge research and operations: translate advances into deployable systems and surface real-world failures to researchers and engineers.
• Define and shape a vision for long-term real-world deployments.

Skills

Robotics deployment

Python

Full-stack debugging

Communication

Job description

Physical Intelligence, a San Francisco-based robotics AI company, seeks engineers to deploy and debug policies on real robots. You’ll curate data, train policies, and integrate software with hardware in customer environments.

You will collaborate with researchers and operators to observe deployments, iterating toward robust, production-ready systems. This role emphasizes practical results and clear communication.