Robotics Teleoperation Full-Stack Engineer

Persona AI; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based bonus

99% employer covered medical benefits

Early-stage equity

Competitive PTO

Winter break (Dec 24–Jan 2)

Job summary

Persona AI is building humanoid robots for demanding environments, seeking a Robotics Full Stack Software Engineer to bridge controls and XR at the lowest level. You will optimize data flow, latency, and reliability across the robot-operator path and work with hardware SDKs for sensing, control, and data collection.

The role emphasizes building low-latency pipelines, system architecture, and collaboration with hardware, firmware, and XR teams, with a strong focus on real-world reliability.

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) and how to optimize protocols for latency-sensitive real-world conditions.
• 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, understandable software that bridges controls and XR.
• Build software that interfaces directly with hardware SDKs for robot sensing, control, and data collection
• Create low-latency, predictive data streaming pipelines over unreliable real-world transports (WiFi, cellular, the messy real world)
• Create systems that support motion retargeting and robot control
• Monitoring, metrics, and alerting infrastructure that scales with a growing fleet
• Rendering optimization pipelines that ensure high-fidelity operator feedback without sacrificing latency or frame rate
• Controls algorithms from the operator to the robot

Skills

Rust

API design

Python

Networking

Linux

SDK integration

Build systems (Nix/Bazel)

5+ years software experience

Education

PhD/MSc/Bachelor in CS or Robotics

Tools

Nix

Bazel

Job description

Persona AI is building humanoid robots for demanding environments, seeking a Robotics Full Stack Software Engineer to bridge controls and XR at the lowest level. You will optimize data flow, latency, and reliability across the robot-operator path and work with hardware SDKs for sensing, control, and data collection.

The role emphasizes building low-latency pipelines, system architecture, and collaboration with hardware, firmware, and XR teams, with a strong focus on real-world reliability.