Software Engineer

Pantograph PBC; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Pantograph PBC in San Francisco seeks a sharp generalist engineer to work on our robot software, joining a small, fast-moving team in person. You’ll sit close to customers and our hardware team, building and shipping features that improve how people interact with our robots.

A robotics background is not required; we value curiosity, quick learning, pragmatic problem solving, and strong communication. You’ll also contribute to internal tooling and test infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Robotics background not required.
• Ideal fit is curious and quick to learn new domains and cares about usable products.
• You might be a good fit if you ship things and communicate well with customers and teammates.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship features across the core robot feature stack.
• Contribute to internal test infrastructure and robot tooling.
• Collaborate with customers and hardware team to improve user experience.

Skills

Generalist programmer

Shipping features

Clear communication

AI tooling

Customer interaction

Tools

Rust

Embedded Linux

Video pipelines

Distributed systems

Job description

Pantograph is training general models that start by watching internet-scale video and end up on robots. We think the path to capable robots runs through general intelligence rather than narrow, robot-specific skills. We're scaling simple methods across video games, real-world video, and our own fleet of affordable, durable robots.

We're looking for a sharp generalist engineer to work on our robot software. You'll sit close to both our customers and our hardware team. The work spans our core robot feature stack — building and shipping features that improve our customers' experience of our robots — as well as our internal test infrastructure and robot tooling.

A robotics background is not a requirement. The ideal fit is someone eager to dive into new problems, curious and quick to learn new domains, and who cares deeply about what makes products usable.

You might be a good fit if you:

• Are a strong generalist programmer who's comfortable jumping between domains
• Love shipping things and seeing real people use them
• Are pragmatic and you reach for the simplest thing that solves the problem
• Communicate well and enjoy working directly with customers and teammates outside engineering
• Use AI tools extremely effectively

Bonus if you've worked with:

• Rust (most of our stack is written in it — but a strong engineer can pick it up)
• Embedded Linux, hardware, or anything physical, like software for robots or cars
• Testing and reliability at scale
• Video pipelines, networking, or distributed systems
• Fleet management

We care much more about what you've built than credentials. We're a small, fast-moving team working together in person in San Francisco. If this sounds exciting to you, we want to hear from you.