Robotics Systems Engineer - Full-Stack Robot HW/SW, SF Bay

Dream Labs; San Francisco (CA); Presencial; USD 45.000 - 65.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

On-site work in SF Bay Area

W-2 employment

Paid on-site assessment

Descripción de la vacante

Dream Labs in San Francisco, CA, seeks a hands-on Robotics Systems Engineer to build and operate robotic platforms for research. You will work across hardware, embedded systems, robot software, calibration, data collection, and evaluation, debugging the full system from sensors to learned policies.

The role demands strong Linux/C++/Python skills, ROS/ROS2 expertise, and the ability to work cross-stack in a fast-moving startup.

Formación

• Experience integrating or operating complete robotic systems.
• Proficiency with Linux, Git, and Python or C++.
• Familiarity with ROS/ROS2 and sensor/actuator hardware.
• Strong cross-stack debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with AI coding agents is a plus.

Responsabilidades

• Bring up, integrate, and maintain humanoids, robotic arms, and custom platforms.
• Debug mechanical, electrical, networking, communication, and software failures.
• Integrate and help design sensors, actuators, motor controllers, embedded devices, compute, wiring, and power systems.
• Develop robot drivers, hardware interfaces, diagnostics, and automation in Python or C++.
• Build distributed robotics software using ROS, ROS 2, ZMQ, and related technologies.
• Maintain teleoperation, robot data collection, dataset validation, and policy-evaluation software.
• Perform calibration, functional testing, reliability testing, and performance characterization.
• Develop logging, monitoring, health checks, and fault-recovery tools.
• Work with ML researchers to deploy and evaluate learned policies on physical robots.
• Improve system reliability, performance, safety, and maintainability.
• Use AI coding agents to accelerate implementation, testing, debugging, and documentation.

Conocimientos

Linux

Python

C++

ROS

ROS 2

Embedded systems

Hardware interfacing

Debugging

Cross-stack debugging

Git

Educación

BS in Robotics

MS in Robotics

Herramientas

CAN

EtherCAT

DDS

SPI

UART

STM32

Jetson

Descripción del empleo

Dream Labs in San Francisco, CA, seeks a hands-on Robotics Systems Engineer to build and operate robotic platforms for research. You will work across hardware, embedded systems, robot software, calibration, data collection, and evaluation, debugging the full system from sensors to learned policies.

The role demands strong Linux/C++/Python skills, ROS/ROS2 expertise, and the ability to work cross-stack in a fast-moving startup.