Senior XR Teleoperation Engineer – Real-World Robotics

Persona AI; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Equity

Paid time off

Winter break

Job summary

Persona AI is seeking a Senior XR Software Engineer for its Teleoperation team in Houston. You will build core system parts enabling operators to work inside a humanoid robot, from headset to robot, across simulation to deployment. The role blends robotics, real-time rendering, and safe networking.

You will collaborate with locomotion, controls, autonomy, and ML engineers to produce high-quality training data and robust teleoperation features. Hands-on hardware lab work is expected.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software experience in relevant field.

Responsibilities

• Design and build headset application and robot-side services, mainly Rust

Skills

5+ years software

XR/real-time 3D

C/C++ or Rust

Python tooling

Networking fundamentals

3D math

Linux debugging

ownership & communication

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS/Robotics

Tools

OpenXR

Unity

Unreal

Job description

Persona AI is seeking a Senior XR Software Engineer for its Teleoperation team in Houston. You will build core system parts enabling operators to work inside a humanoid robot, from headset to robot, across simulation to deployment. The role blends robotics, real-time rendering, and safe networking.

You will collaborate with locomotion, controls, autonomy, and ML engineers to produce high-quality training data and robust teleoperation features. Hands-on hardware lab work is expected.