Robotics Hardware Engineer - Field Data Capture

Sieve; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) and full health insurance

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner covered,+

Ubers covered home

Job summary

Sieve seeks its first roboticist to own the physical AI data systems—the robots, capture rigs, and teleoperation stations. You will bring hardware and software together from table-borne parts to field-ready setups at partner sites, ensuring synchronized, high-quality data streams.

You will wire, calibrate, test, and troubleshoot across firmware, wiring, and applications, with heavy emphasis on reliability and repeatable builds for scale across sites.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience building robotic, mechatronic, or controls systems (background in robotics, EE, ME, or similar)
• Systems you've deployed beyond the lab (in a factory, warehouse, field site, or customer site)
• Hands-on bring-up and integration of robots, and troubleshooting across firmware to wiring to application code
• Comfortable at a workbench: soldering, building and repairing harnesses, power faults, CAN/serial/USB/Ethernet debugging
• Production-quality Python and C++ for hardware that runs outside the lab; Linux/ROS/ROS2 fluency
• Disciplined engineering habits: test plans, documentation, measurements to back up claims
• Able to context switch rapidly
• In-person at our SF HQ (+ travel to partner sites: TBD)

Responsibilities

• Capture rigs: design and bring up hardware we record with, including multi-camera arrays and teleoperation stations
• Calibration and time sync: own camera intrinsics, hardware triggering, clock alignment across sensors
• Root-cause failures: diagnose and fix motor stalls, dropped frames, power rail sags, or quiescent buses
• Field deployments: set up and operate systems at partner sites, ensure durability and operability
• Robot and capture software: write drivers, ROS/ROS2 integration, recording/logging, QA checks
• Repeatable builds: produce BOMs, assembly docs, validation plans, SOPs for scaling setups
• Team foundations: establish hardware architecture, interfaces, test standards, and culture for the team

Skills

Robotics

Python

C++

ROS/ROS2

Linux

Soldering

Hardware debugging

Tools

SolidWorks

KiCad

Altium

Onshape

Job description

Sieve seeks its first roboticist to own the physical AI data systems—the robots, capture rigs, and teleoperation stations. You will bring hardware and software together from table-borne parts to field-ready setups at partner sites, ensuring synchronized, high-quality data streams.

You will wire, calibrate, test, and troubleshoot across firmware, wiring, and applications, with heavy emphasis on reliability and repeatable builds for scale across sites.