Senior Product Engineer, Robotics

LiveKit; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity package

Health, dental, and vision benefits

Flexible vacation policy

Job summary

LiveKit in San Francisco is hiring Product Engineers to build the surfaces developers use to ship robotics applications on LiveKit. Most work lives on the web and in our CLI, including dashboards, tooling, observability, and debugging surfaces that turn LiveKit from a set of APIs into a platform people love to build on.

You will write production code in TypeScript and Go, work end-to-end across the stack, and ship features that real developers depend on.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of engineering experience shipping product end-to-end.
• Strong TypeScript skills and modern web framework experience.
• Experience building dashboards or developer-facing tooling for robotics or similar domains.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship core product surfaces on the web and CLI end-to-end.
• Design features that are obvious and powerful for developers.
• Engage with developers to understand workflows and edge cases.
• Move prototypes to production based on real usage.
• Contribute to technical and product decisions shaping future work.

Skills

TypeScript

Go

Web frameworks

DX for developers

Job description

About LiveKit

LiveKit is building the infrastructure layer for the agentic era of computing. Our platform gives developers everything they need to build, test, deploy, scale, and observe physical AI in production. Founded in 2021, LiveKit powers voice and agentic AI applications for OpenAI, Salesforce, Spotify, Meta, and physical AI applications for Skydio, Ultra Robotics, Polymath Robotics, Nuro, Oxa, and many other across AV, drones, warehouse robots, delivery robots, humanoids, and more.

About This Role

We're hiring Product Engineers to build the surfaces developers use to ship robotics applications on LiveKit. Most of this work lives on the web and in our CLI: the dashboards, tooling, observability, and debug surfaces that turn LiveKit from a set of APIs into a platform people love to build on.

This is a core engineering role. You'll write a lot of production code in TypeScript and Go, work end to end across the stack, and ship features that real developers depend on. We expect strong technical chops and a high bar for craft.

What sets a Product Engineer apart at LiveKit is product instinct. You think about the shape of the experience, not just the correctness of the code. The things you ship are built from deep knowledge of actual customer use-cases, and you continuously measure, seek feedback, and iterate to maximize your impact.

This role is based in our SF HQ, where you'll be part of a collaborative in-office culture!

You'll Thrive at LiveKit if You

• are genuinely excited about physical AI and want to build the infrastructure that makes them possible

• love building for developers and have strong opinions about what good DX looks like

• write code that's fast, reliable, and right-sized to the problem

• own what you ship you feel it when something you built isn't working for users

• move fast without losing rigor on the details that matter

• can explain complex technical concepts clearly to other engineers

• pick up new languages, tools, and domains quickly

What You'll Do

• Build and ship core product surfaces end to end, primarily on the web and in our CLI

• Design and implement features that make LiveKit feel obvious and powerful to the developers using it

• Engage directly with developers and customers to understand how they're building with LiveKit and where the rough edges are

• Move quickly from prototype to production, iterating on real usage rather than guesses

• Contribute to technical and product decisions that shape what we build next

Who You Are

• 6+ years of engineering experience, with meaningful time spent shipping product end-to-end

• Strong coding skills in TypeScript, with fluency in modern web frameworks. Comfort with Go is a plus.

• A track record of building user-facing software that developers or technical users actually adopted.

• Experience working on dashboards & interfaces for robotics applications.

• Strong product sense: you weigh user experience, trade-offs, and value alongside technical implementation

• Comfort with ambiguity. You can take a vague problem, frame it, and start shipping.

• Excellent written and verbal communication

• Genuine excitement about physical AI, robotics, and helping developers enable

Nice to Have

• Experience building developer platforms, SDKs, CLIs, or APIs as the primary product

• Experience working with and operating production distributed systems (Kubernetes-based deployments, analytics/telemetry, and observability) at scale

• Hands on experience building hardware or robotics

• Open source contributions, especially on infra or developer tools

• Background in realtime, audio/video, or AI tooling

• Based in or willing to spend time in the San Francisco Bay Area

Our Commitment to You

• An opportunity to build something truly impactful to the world

• Contribute to open source alongside world-class engineers

• Competitive salary and equity package

• Health, dental, and vision benefits

• Flexible vacation policy

LiveKit is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable law. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact [e-mail].