Robotics Systems Architect & Integrator

Mind Robotics; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Mind Robotics is seeking a Systems Engineer to own integration across the robot — from decomposing high-level behaviors into measurable specs, to debugging the hard interactions that surface when everything runs together. You'll collaborate with hardware and firmware teams on system architecture and define specs for how the robot behaves.

You’ll work at the bench and on documentation, bridging mechanical, electrical, firmware, and controls, accountable for the system from concept through field

Qualifications

• Degree in computer engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years in systems engineering or a cross-disciplinary hardware role involving complex electromechanical or robotic products.
• Strong hardware and software fundamentals — able to bridge electrical schematics, embedded communication protocols, and firmware architecture; comfortable with a scope and multimeter during bring-up.
• Hands-on experience debugging complex subsystems involving networked microprocessors and software-controlled electromechanical devices — able to read, modify, and recompile C/C++ firmware/software to add debug logging and iterate on fixes.
• Experience defining requirements from high-level system behaviors and making them measurable and testable; able to write scripts or tooling to improve bring-up and validation efficiency.
• Proficient in data analysis and visualization — able to instrument systems, extract signals from noisy hardware data, and communicate findings clearly across teams.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, move fast, and have an engineering curiosity that drives you to understand the whole system.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to architectural decisions for new robot subsystems — communication protocols, control strategies, and hardware-software partitioning.
• Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, safety, and firmware teams to define interfaces and validation strategies early, and lead calibration and tuning efforts to hit performance targets.
• Define software requirements from high-level system requirements, using first-principles analysis and hardware/model-based testing — from top-level robot performance targets down to subsystem budgets and interfaces.
• Prototype and characterize components and full systems; design early builds to de-risk new technologies before committing to production architecture.
• Debug hardware-software interactions hands-on during design, launch, and field deployment — pulling and analyzing logs, adding debug instrumentation/tracing to firmware and software, and recompiling and re-flashing to isolate root cause.
• Analyze failure modes, complete DFMEAs/HARAs, and define system-level test plans from bench testing through field deployment.
• Drive readiness reviews, sign-off, and post-launch monitoring across firmware, hardware, controls, reliability, and manufacturing stakeholders.

Skills

Systems engineering

C/C++ firmware

Data analysis

Hardware debugging

Education

Degree in Computer/Electrical/Mechanical Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Multimeter

Scripting

Job description

Mind Robotics is seeking a Systems Engineer to own integration across the robot — from decomposing high-level behaviors into measurable specs, to debugging the hard interactions that surface when everything runs together. You'll collaborate with hardware and firmware teams on system architecture and define specs for how the robot behaves.

You’ll work at the bench and on documentation, bridging mechanical, electrical, firmware, and controls, accountable for the system from concept through field