Robotics Full-Stack Engineer: Teleoperation Systems

Persona AI Inc; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Performance-based bonus

99% employer-covered medical benefits

Early-stage equity

PTO and winter break

Job summary

Persona AI Inc. is seeking a Robotics Full Stack Software Engineer to join the Teleoperation Team. You will work on data movement, low-level networking, and latency-sensitive pipelines between robots and operators in challenging environments.

The role emphasizes integrating hardware SDKs and building end-to-end systems for reliable, real-time operation. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software experience, strong Rust, Python, and systems design skills, and a deep understanding of networking

Qualifications

• PhD, MSc, or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field.
• 5+ years in software with a strong systems engineering background.
• Exceptional production level Rust.
• System architect and API designer.
• Solid Python for tooling, test harnesses, and automation.
• Deep understanding of low-level networking (TCP/IP, UDP, WiFi, cellular, BLE).
• Deep Linux experience, including embedded environments.
• Hardware SDK integration experience.
• Strong ownership and communication skills; comfortable working across hardware, firmware, and XR engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Build reliable, debuggable software that bridges controls and XR.
• Interface directly with hardware SDKs for robot sensing, control, and data collection.
• Create low-latency, predictive data streaming pipelines over unreliable real-world transports.
• Create systems that support motion retargeting and robot control.
• Monitoring, metrics, and alerting infrastructure that scales with a growing fleet.
• Rendering optimization pipelines for high-fidelity operator feedback with low latency.
• Implement control algorithms from the operator to the robot.

Skills

Rust

Python

System architecture

API design

Networking (low-level)

Embedded Linux

Hardware SDK integration

XR/robotics knowledge

Communication

Education

PhD/MSc/Bachelor's in CS/Robotics

Tools

GCC

CMake

Nix

Bazel

Job description

Persona AI Inc. is seeking a Robotics Full Stack Software Engineer to join the Teleoperation Team. You will work on data movement, low-level networking, and latency-sensitive pipelines between robots and operators in challenging environments.

The role emphasizes integrating hardware SDKs and building end-to-end systems for reliable, real-time operation. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software experience, strong Rust, Python, and systems design skills, and a deep understanding of networking