Robotics Software Engineer

Company: Confidential - Venture-backed lab-automation company
Location: San Francisco, CA (in office 5 days per week)
Compensation: $148,000 - $230,000 + competitive equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: Visa transfers and new sponsorship (H-1B, TN)

About the Company

A venture-backed company combining AI, robotics and biology into a scientific physical-AI platform that lets scientists scale lab work and generate far more data.

The Role

Our client is hiring Robotics Software Engineers (2-5 years) to build robotic systems that will transform life science research. You will develop software that lets robots operate scientific instruments with human-level dexterity: manipulating biology tools, avoiding collisions in dynamic lab environments and closing the loop with computer vision. It is a high-ownership role shaping major parts of the robotics stack.

What You Will Do

• Develop motion planning and trajectory optimization for robot arm manipulators in dynamic lab environments.
• Integrate, test and debug across simulation and physical robots, shipping code that runs on real hardware.
• Use computer vision so robots can work with consumables and equipment designed for humans.
• Work directly with partner scientists at customer labs on pain points, solutions and deployment.
• Simplify and design for scalability and robustness across the robotics platform.

What You Bring

• 2-5 years of robotics software experience
• Motion planning and trajectory optimization for manipulators
• Strong C++ and Python
• Experience shipping code to real hardware as well as simulation (PyBullet, MuJoCo)
• Ability to work in the San Francisco office 5 days a week

Nice to Have

• Computer vision for manipulation
• Lab automation or life sciences exposure

Tech Stack

C++, Python, PyBullet, MuJoCo, ZMQ, Redis, gRPC