Summary
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Join an early-stage hardware startup developing robotics for field deployments. Own embedded firmware from concept to production, integrate sensors, build OTA infrastructure, and debug complex hardware systems in an agile development cycle.
Highlights
Shape robotics hardware for challenging environments, lead end-to-end embedded development, collaborate globally with manufacturing partners
Description
Palo Alto
Full-time On-site
About The Company
We're an early-stage, YC-backed hardware company building robotics hardware for demanding field environments.
Our systems are already in the hands of users, and their feedback drives what we build next.
We went from concept to a working second-generation system in a few weeks.
That pace is the whole company.
What You'll Do
Own the embedded stack end to end - you'd be the first electrical hire in the US, and this domain is yoursWrite and tune BLDC motor-control loops on real hardwareIntegrate sensors: IMUs, encoders, current sensing - and make the data trustworthyBuild the OTA infrastructure so we can update units in the fieldBuild the debug and logging tooling the rest of the team relies on to find problems fastTake boards from schematic through bring-up, and debug them yourself when they don't workWork directly with our manufacturing team overseas including travel
What We're Looking For
Real-time firmware and motor control on physical robots or autonomous systems, not simulationsYou've written control loops at the loop level, on hardware that shippedComfortable across the whole stack - schematic, board bring-up, firmware, tooling — not just one layerYou've built debug and OTA infrastructure from scratch, or you're the person who wished someone hadFluent with a scope, a logic analyzer and a debugger, and you reach for them before you reach for a theoryYou've been early on a hard program and know what that costsWilling to relocate to Palo Alto
Bonus
First firmware hire somewhere seriousBattery and power electronics depthWearables, exoskeletons, prosthetics, drones or legged robotsYou still build things at home that nobody asked you to build
Not a fit if you need a spec handed to you, you want to stay inside one layer of the stack, or changing requirements ruin your week.
Requirements change here constantly, because the hardware keeps telling us things we didn't know.
Skills: embedded,stack,electrical,firmware
