Robotics Software Engineer: Build Real Hardware

Applied Intuition Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 189,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Intuition, Inc. is building general-purpose robots capable of performing real work in real environments. As a Robotics Engineer on our Robotics team, you will work across the full stack—from low-level controls and firmware to locomotion behaviors, manipulation, and fleet deployment.

You will collaborate closely with mechanical, electrical, firmware, and AI/ML teams and own subsystem integration end to end, delivering code that ships to physical hardware with measurable impact.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, CS, EE, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• 4+ years of robotics development, with some work on physical hardware.
• Strong C++ (14/17/20) and Python for tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and tune core robotics software spanning locomotion, whole-body control, and manipulation for bi-dexterous robot platforms.
• Bring up software and hardware on new robot generations and own subsystem integration across actuators, sensors, motor controllers, and onboard compute.
• Develop and maintain real-time control software in C++ with a strong emphasis on reliability, performance, and testability.
• Build simulation infrastructure and validate behaviors in physics-based environments before deploying to hardware.
• Debug failures on physical robots and analyze telemetry and log data to identify root causes and improve system robustness.
• Contribute to tooling that scales, including fleet monitoring, behavior testing pipelines, operator interfaces, and CI/CD infrastructure.
• Work with teleoperation and data collection systems to inform learning-based policy development.

Skills

C++ (C++14/17/20)

Python

Robotics fundamentals

Linux development

Real-time systems

Hardware interaction

Education

BS or MS in Robotics/ME/CS/EE or equivalent hands-on experience

Tools

CAN

EtherCAT

Ethernet

Serial

ROS/ROS2

Physics simulators

Job description

Applied Intuition, Inc. is building general-purpose robots capable of performing real work in real environments. As a Robotics Engineer on our Robotics team, you will work across the full stack—from low-level controls and firmware to locomotion behaviors, manipulation, and fleet deployment.

You will collaborate closely with mechanical, electrical, firmware, and AI/ML teams and own subsystem integration end to end, delivering code that ships to physical hardware with measurable impact.