Role

Our perception technology, in particular pose estimation, is a key differentiator of the Intrinsic platform and enables our users to build flexible automation solutions. The perception experience team builds tools that significantly improve developer productivity when adding perception to an application, from camera onboarding and calibration to training and running a pose estimation algorithm.

We are seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer to join our dynamic perception team working at the heart of Flowstate, our first product built on the Intrinsic platform. In this role, you will be responsible for developing new user interfaces focused on perception user journeys, improving existing user journeys, and integration with the rest of the Intrinsic platform and backend APIs. You will develop the full stack of web interfaces for end-to-end perception tasks, ensuring a cohesive and user-friendly experience throughout our platform. The interfaces you build will shape our product and the role of the human in it.

You are excited by the prospect of owning critical pieces of our user experience (including collaborating with the Product and Design teams, and developing tests). You are excited to work with real cameras and robotic hardware. You have excellent development skills across the web application stack and are excited to be part of a world-class, innovative, frontend team.

How your work moves the mission forward

• Develop intuitive and innovative perception interfaces in collaboration with Product, Design, and Engineering teams.
• Own individual workflows or web UIs critical for Intrinsic’s perception product(s).
• Collaborate closely with product, design, and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver cohesive and delightful user experiences.
• Contribute to the end-to-end tech stack, integrating frontend with backend systems to enable seamless human-robot interaction.

Skills you will need to be successful

• At least Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 5 years of professional experience in frontend web application development, with proficiency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript and experience with a major web framework (e.g., Angular, React).
• Experience in backend development (Go, C++, Python, etc.).
• Willingness to learn or familiarity with 3D computer vision, registration techniques, or similar perception topics.
• Experience with building visually-rich web applications. 
• Excellent collaboration skills, particularly when working with product and design teams.
• Good written and verbal communication skills in English.

Skills that will differentiate your candidacy

• Experience with 3D graphics and visualization libraries (e.g., Three.js, WebGL) in a web context.
• Experience in building human-machine interfaces for robotics or perception or complex industrial systems.
• Experience with user studies or gathering user feedback to iterate on prototypes.

Role

As a Full Stack Senior Software Engineer in our Product Development Team for Robotic Solutions you will work closely together with different stakeholders to develop production ready software for scalable robot applications based on our Intrinsic Platform. You will be part of the entire development journey, from scoping the right technical solution, analyzing dependencies and needs up to actual development and testing.   

How your work moves the mission forward

• Synchronize with product management and platform development to take the right architecture decisions, which ensure long term maintainability and stability. 
• Implement high quality software with state of the art tooling as part of an experienced team of developers.
• Be hands on in testing on real hardware and supporting customers where needed.
• Ensure a smooth transition of feature releases to the Customer Success Team, which will take care of most customer facing enablement and support. 

Skills you will need to be successful

• Master’s degree or equivalent practical background in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related technical field.
• Experience implementing user facing web-based frontends and associated backends in the context of robotics and industrial automation.
• Professional work experience with Python + TypeScript / JavaScript.
• Demonstrated capability in technical leadership, including setting technical direction and guiding development efforts towards successful outcomes.
• Excellent collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with internal cross-functional teams and external technical partners.

Skills that will differentiate your candidacy

• Proven track record developing and deploying frontend and backend production code for industrial robotics and automation solutions within manufacturing or production environments.
• Good understanding of concepts such as coordinate transforms, quaternions and pose representations.
• Familiarity with web-based 3D Visualization.
• Ability to drive sustainable architecture decisions and experience with appropriate testing approaches.
• Experience with Angular, Bazel, gRPC and Protocol Buffers.

Role

As a Robotics Software Engineer specializing in Intelligent Manufacturing Automation, you will closely collaborate with our automation group and industry partners to advance manufacturing automation by developing and deploying end-to-end automation processes for electronic manufacturing. Your daily responsibilities will include integrating and developing new processes and capabilities for manufacturing automation, as well as supporting the deployment of impactful robotic systems in production.

How your work moves the mission forward

• Contribute to the technical development and integration of advanced robotic automation solutions for manufacturing automation, utilizing the Intrinsic platform, ROS and state-of-the-art AI capabilities.
• Collaborate closely with our automation team and industry partners to successfully develop and integrate automation capabilities into factory settings.
• Document designs, processes, and results, communicating effectively with internal technical teams and our partners.

Skills you will need to be successful

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical background in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related technical field.
• Foundational understanding of robotics and automation, with a strong desire to learn and contribute to their application in manufacturing environments.
• Programming proficiency with C++ and/or Python.
• Excellent collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with internal cross-functional teams and external technical partners.

Skills that will differentiate your candidacy

• Experience with ROS 2 and it's major frameworks.
• Experience with technologies such as Kubernetes, gRPC, Protobuf, Bazel, microservice architectures, and/or real-time systems.

Role

As a Robotics Systems Engineer, you will build the connection between our web-based software and the physical hardware on the manufacturing floor. You are responsible for ensuring that when an operator interacts with our interface, the robotic system responds instantly and safely, from synchronizing data records to controlling physical signal lights. You will own the entire lifecycle of a command, ensuring it is authorized, recorded, and executed correctly even if the network is unstable. Your work ensures that our software is a reliable and intuitive controller for the next generation of physical automation.

How your work moves the mission forward

• Implement secure login and identity systems that manage user access levels and ensure only authorized personnel can trigger physical hardware actions.
• Develop the control logic that bridges the web interface to physical hardware components, including status lights, emergency stops, and operator consoles.
• Architect resilient data systems that store robot telemetry locally during network outages and synchronize with the cloud once a connection is restored.
• Build the backend infrastructure required to support multi-tenant environments, ensuring strict data isolation and security between different customers.
• Design reliable communication pathways between web browsers and hardware controllers to ensure low-latency feedback for the operator.
• Create detailed audit logs that link every physical hardware action back to a specific, authenticated user for safety and forensic review.

Skills you will need to be successful

• Professional experience designing and implementing granular user permissions and access control levels within a multi-user software environment.
• Proficiency in interfacing software with physical hardware through digital inputs and outputs (such as controlling lights, switches, or sensors).
• Expertise in fullstack development, moving comfortably between server-side logic (Python or C++) and client-side web applications (TypeScript).
• Practical experience with network communication protocols used to send data between different pieces of hardware and software.

Skills that will differentiate your candidacy

• Experience with industrial communication standards used to talk to factory equipment and hardware controllers.
• Understanding of distributed systems and how to resolve data conflicts with multi user access.
• Experience with real-time operating systems or high-performance messaging systems for low-latency control.
• Previous experience building industrial human-machine interfaces or control panels for complex machinery.
• Familiarity with modern build and deployment tools (such as Bazel or containerization) to manage complex, multi-component software.

Role

As a Frontend Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and developing modern web applications that provide the primary interface for interacting with robotic workcells on the manufacturing floor. Our goal is to make complex automation accessible by providing intuitive yet powerful interfaces that bridge the gap between human operators and physical hardware. 

In this role, you will be responsible for developing human-robot user interfaces (HMIs) and optimizing the performance of client-side rendering and server-side integration. You will develop the full stack of web interfaces for end-to-end robotics tasks, from real-time 3D visualizations of workcells to the control logic that drives them. Your work moves beyond standard CRUD-based web applications; the interfaces you build will directly control physical robots on an assembly line, shaping both our product and the role of the human within it. You will help transition the HMI from a manual dashboard into an intelligent partner that assists operators with troubleshooting, programming, and optimization.

You are a developer who thrives on technical precision and rapid iteration. You are comfortable owning critical pieces of the user experience, making UI design decisions that prioritize the operator, and collaborating across Product, Design, and Engineering teams to ensure our software is as robust as the hardware it controls.

How your work moves the mission forward

• Implement responsive UIs using modern frameworks and reactive design patterns to handle real-time telemetry from robotic systems and prioritize operator safety and workflow efficiency.
• Develop and optimize 3D visualizations, ensuring smooth performance and accurate rendering of manufacturing environments.
• Engineer resilient web applications that provide a reliable experience across factory floor devices, ensuring high availability even in variable network conditions.
• Prototype and integrate AI agents into HMI workflows to assist operators with real-time decision-making and error recovery.
• Integrate frontend services with backend systems using gRPC and Protobuf to ensure seamless, low-latency data communication.
• Verify code quality through comprehensive unit and integration testing while managing complex builds via Bazel and CI/CD pipelines.

Skills you will need to be successful

• A minimum of 3 years of professional experience with modern web application development (Typescript, Angular/React) and a deep understanding of efficient state management and UI performance optimization.
• Proficiency in low-level APIs (WebGL/WebGPU) or high-performance engines (Three.js, Babylon.js, or Bevy) and deep understanding of the GPU pipeline.
• Experience utilizing service workers and caching strategies for offline-first reliability.
• Experience with Bazel build systems and proficiency in gRPC and client-server communication.
• Ability to write comprehensive unit and integration tests using Jasmine (or similar) and a solid understanding of automated testing within CI/CD workflows.
• Ability to read and understand backend codebases in Python or C++ to trace data flows and unblock frontend integration tasks.

Skills that will differentiate your candidacy

• Experience with WebAssembly (WASM) and/or Rust. 
• A strong willingness and excitement to work with physical AI and robotic systems.
• Ability to analyze and optimize web app performance, ensuring interface cohesion across different client hardware and network bandwidths.
• A track record of iterating quickly on features based on direct feedback from internal teams or clients.
• Previous exposure to designing interfaces for industrial automation, robotics, or hardware control systems.

Role

As a Frontend Robotics Engineer on our Customer Success team, you will act as the crucial bridge between our core technology and our customers and partners. You will help design, build, and customize Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs) that empower our partners to deploy complex robotic automation systems.

In this role, you will take existing reference solutions and customize them for specific customer use cases, adding new features, controls, and 3D visualizations. We are looking for a "T-shaped" developer: an engineer with deep expertise in building web interfaces, coupled with the ability to navigate backend systems in Python and C++. While you will have the support of dedicated backend engineers to build core infrastructure, you should be entirely comfortable navigating backend code to understand and debug data flows, trace API endpoints, and collaborate effectively across the stack. You will need to be familiar with how data travels from hardware to software and have a solid understanding of network systems. Additionally, you will work directly with customers and partners to guide their development and get hands-on with physical robotics hardware to ensure your interfaces work flawlessly in the real world.

How your work moves the mission forward

• Collaborate directly with customers/partners to understand their specific use cases and customize reference HMIs to meet their product needs.
• Develop visually rich, user-friendly web applications that allow non-experts to interact with, monitor, and control industrial robotic workcells.
• Bridge the technical gap for customers by guiding them through frontend development best practices and helping them eventually own their custom HMI services.
• Integrate complex features, such as real-time 3D visualizations and process data, partnering seamlessly with backend engineers to wire up new data streams.
• Work hands-on in the lab and in the field with physical robots, hardware, and automation equipment to test and validate your software interfaces.
• Create and maintain an accessible system of reusable frontend components in collaboration with our Design team.

Skills you will need to be successful

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of professional experience in frontend web application development and design, with deep expertise in Angular, TypeScript, and Three.js.
• Experience building visually rich, user-friendly client-side applications that enable complex interactions.
• Backend Confidence: A strong ability to collaborate with backend teams - you should be comfortable navigating codebases in Go, C++, or Python and understanding data structures to trace data flows and unblock frontend integration tasks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to collaborate directly with customers or external partners.
• A strong willingness and excitement to work hands-on with physical hardware and robotic systems (no prior robotics experience strictly required, but curiosity is a must).

Skills that will differentiate your candidacy

• Familiarity with industrial automation, robotics, manufacturing, or human-machine interface (HMI) design.
• Experience with 3D graphics and visualization libraries in a web context (e.g., WebGL).
• Familiarity with server-side (Go, C++, gRPC, etc.) software.
• Previous experience in a Customer Success, Solutions Engineering, Developer Relations, or forward-deployed engineering role.

Role

As a Software Engineer specializing in Planning and Orchestration, you will play a critical role in building the factory of the future. Your work will focus on building a flexible and dynamic orchestration system that commands AI-powered workcells and material handling systems, including AMRs, mobile manipulators, and conveyors. By solving complex multi-agent orchestration and load balancing challenges, you will help ensure optimal production schedules and the overall success of Intrinsic's manufacturing solutions.

How your work moves the mission forward

• Build a dynamic orchestration system to execute plans across diverse hardware, including mobile manipulators and conveyors.
• Integrate orchestration and planning layers with external systems such as MES and inventory management software to synchronize operations.
• Integrate generative AI tools to improve operational efficiency.

Skills you will need to be successful

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Operations Research, or equivalent practical experience.
• Knowledge of ROS 2 with experience deploying it in production systems.
• 3-5 years of professional software development experience, including proficiency in C++ and Python.
• Familiarity with distributed frameworks and multi-agent orchestration.

Skills that will differentiate your candidacy

• Deep understanding of deliberation frameworks and modelling workflows.
• Experience working with specific material handling hardware such as AMRs or mobile manipulators.
• Background in reinforcement learning.
• Experience developing agentic AI systems.

Role

As a Software Engineer specializing in Simulation, you will collaborate with senior engineers to build and maintain high-fidelity simulation environments using Gazebo. You will be responsible for implementing features, creating assets, and running validation tests to ensure our digital twins accurately reflect real-world physics and hardware. You will work closely with the simulation and robotics teams to support the development of the Flowstate platform, ensuring that our tools are reliable and efficient for internal and external developers.

How your work moves the mission forward

• Develop and maintain simulation assets and environments using Gazebo and ROS.
• Implement software features that bridge the gap between simulation and physical robot behavior.
• Create and execute automated tests to validate robotic software performance in simulated environments.
• Collaborate with senior engineers to optimize simulation infrastructure for scalability and speed.
• Document technical workflows and contribute to the internal knowledge base for simulation tools.
• Maintain and contribute to the development of open source software.

Skills you will need to be successful

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Robotics, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in robotics software development or simulation.
• Proficiency programming in C++ and Python.
• Experience with the Gazebo simulator and ROS.
• Familiarity with physics engines (e.g., Dart, Bullet, ODE, MuJoCo).

Skills that will differentiate your candidacy

• Experience with Universal Scene Description (USD) and Simulation Description Format (SDF), and Unified Robotics Description Format (URDF).
• Familiarity with Entity-Component-System (ECS) architecture for game or simulation development.
• Knowledge of 3D modeling or computer graphics.
• Experience with sensor data or synthetic data generation.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., GCP) for running automated tests or simulations.
• Background in developing plugins for open-source robotics projects.
• Experience working with version control systems and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience creating interfaces for front end user facing tools.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally.

Role

As a Software Engineer on the Data Infrastructure team, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the data infrastructure that powers our cutting-edge robotics systems. Your software will enable design, development, and operational robotic workflows, integrating with Kubernetes based cloud and on-device services. This includes the systems that collect and process data from our robots in the real world, and feed that data into our machine learning pipelines to train and evaluate the models that make our robots intelligent. You will collaborate with a passionate Product and Engineering team creating software that enables fleets of robots to build better.

How your work moves the mission forward

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable data pipelines for collecting, processing, and storing large volumes of robotics data (e.g., sensor data, telemetry, logs).
• Build Data pipelines to train the next generation of functional robot models.
• Build and maintain tools and infrastructure for data exploration, analysis, and visualization.
• Implement and maintain data security and privacy best practices.
• Work with Customers, Product managers, and Researchers to customize data pipelines for analysis and research.

Skills you will need to be successful

• At least 4 years of professional, post-graduate experience collaborating on medium to large software projects.
• Experience with one of C++, Golang, Python.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and their data services.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Skills that will differentiate your candidacy

• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with data governance and compliance.
• Experience with machine learning pipelines.
• Familiarity with robotics systems. 

Role

As a Robotics & Automation Technician at Intrinsic, your work will unlock and unblock the full potential of our existing robotics lab in Mountain View. Ideal candidates have a bias for action and aren’t afraid of solving unexpected needs of the team. You will navigate ambiguity and learn new skills as the complexity of our work increases over time. 

In this dedicated, hands-on role, you will be working on our ‘Factory of the Future’ project and should expect a wide range of responsibilities. You will heavily focus on the execution of mechanical and electrical assemblies, field-based tasks, building automation cells, and assisting with the critical lab setup. Additionally, you will be responsible for the smooth operation of our facility by handling daily lab maintenance, inventory logistics, and organizational work including shipping, sourcing, and purchasing efforts. By taking ownership of these crucial day-to-day operational tasks, your work will be a force multiplier to the efforts of the team.

How your work moves the mission forward

• Work closely with mechanical engineers, product managers, software developers, and researchers to build, maintain, and refine our electronic manufacturing automation systems from the ground up.
• Execute mechanical and electrical assemblies for rapid, innovative R&D robotic automation workcells.
• Perform electrical testing and troubleshoot existing automation cells to validate hardware integrity and resolve operational issues.
• Manage daily lab maintenance, inventory logistics, and hardware-related office tasks (shipping, sourcing and purchasing) to establish a highly efficient working environment.
• Read and execute from hardware specifications and schematics to assemble and wire industrial control panels, robotic peripherals, and HMI/ PLC hardware.
• Source and integrate best-in-class technology products into automation workcells.
• Document and communicate your work clearly for internal stakeholders.

Skills you will need to be successful

• Associate degree or 3 years of professional experience in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• Demonstrable hands-on experience with mechanical assembly, electrical wiring, and debugging of lab or manufacturing systems.
• Experience installing and operating common industrial robot arms (e.g., KUKA, FANUC, ABB, UR).
• Proficiency in interpreting electrical and pneumatic schematics, with the ability to assemble industrial control panels.
• Experience managing lab maintenance, hardware inventory, and logistics processes.
• Willingness to work in ambiguity, select a direction, and drive towards a solution.

Skills that will differentiate your candidacy

• Experience with PLC programming or troubleshooting (e.g., Beckhoff, PILZ) and motion controllers.
• Professional experience with 3D printing, prototyping and machining (e.g., Drilling, Cutting, Soldering).
• Professional experience with CAD software for reviewing mechanical designs, layouts, and electrical systems.
• Demonstrable experience implementing safety circuitry and knowledge of industrial safety standards (e.g., ANSI/RIA R15.06, ISO 10218).
• Experience modifying or designing basic electrical and pneumatic schematics for automation equipment.
• Valid OSHA forklift certification.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally.

Role

As a Robotics Application Engineer specializing in Intelligent Manufacturing Automation, you will closely collaborate with our automation group and industry partners to advance manufacturing automation by extending our capabilities and solutions. Your daily responsibilities will include integrating and developing robotics solutions, including processes, software features and integrating state-of-the-art AI for manufacturing automation. You will be working with the team leading the deployment of impactful robotic systems in production.

How your work moves the mission forward

• Contribute to the technical development and integration of advanced robotic automation solutions for manufacturing automation, utilizing the Intrinsic platform, ROS and state-of-the-art AI capabilities.
• Collaborate closely with our research and industry partners to successfully integrate AI and automation capabilities into factory settings.
• Document designs, processes, and results, communicating effectively with internal technical teams and our partners.

Skills you will need to be successful

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical background in Robotics Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Foundational understanding of industrial robotics, motion control, and machine vision, with a strong desire to learn and contribute to their application in manufacturing environments.
• Programming proficiency with C++ and/or Python.
• Excellent collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with internal cross-functional teams and external technical partners during deployment and support.

Skills that will differentiate your candidacy

• Foundational understanding of AI concepts for perception, robotics and automation, with a strong desire to learn and contribute to their application in manufacturing environments.
• Experience with ROS 2 and its major frameworks.
• Experience with technologies such as Kubernetes, gRPC, Protobuf, Bazel, microservice architectures, and/or real-time systems.

Role

As a Senior Robotics Software Engineer in Sensor-Based Control and Robot Learning, you will develop and integrate advanced control strategies and Machine Learning (ML) policies within Intrinsic’s Realtime Robot Control stack. You will drive the deployment of visual servoing and force-control skills in real-world manufacturing settings, focusing on dexterous, contact-rich assembly tasks. You will be responsible for the full development lifecycle: designing controllers, ensuring scalable hardware integration, conducting large-scale experiments, and optimizing for cycle times and resource usage to meet rigorous industrial standards.

How your work moves the mission forward

• Develop visual servoing and interaction control loops to solve high-precision insertion and assembly tasks.
• Implement sensor fusion and time-synchronization algorithms for multi-modal, sensor-based robot control.
• Take ownership of the full experimentation cycle, regularly running trials on industrial hardware to evaluate algorithmic changes and collect high-quality training data.
• Propose and build modular components for our kinematics, state estimation, and control stacks to improve robustness in contact-rich environments.
• Analyze logs and telemetry from diverse sensor sources to identify failure modes and influence the technical roadmap.
• Optimize the real-time execution framework for learned manipulation models within the Intrinsic platform.

Skills you will need to be successful

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• 5+ years of professional software development experience in C++ within robotics or mechatronic systems.
• Proven practical experience testing and iterating on physical robotics hardware integrated with vision and sensing systems.
• Deep technical knowledge of numerical optimal control, robot motion optimization and sensor-based robot control
• Experience working closely with partners and cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Business fluency in English.

Skills that will differentiate your candidacy

• PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field desired
• Track-record of outstanding academic contributions in the field
• Signal processing expertise in time synchronization, state estimation, and data fusion.
• Experience running ML model inference on on-prem hardware within soft-realtime loops.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Familiarity with cloud databases and cloud compute workflows.
• Proficiency in JAX, Python, TensorFlow or PyTorch.

Role

As a Technical Lead Manager on the Extensibility Squad, your mission is to empower software developers to access the Intrinsic platform APIs and to use Intrinsic tools to extend Flowstate. You will lead an engineering team responsible for making our platform software more readily available for external users, and have a large stake in efforts to work closer to ROS and other open-source ecosystems. We expect this role to be a mix of technical leadership, individual contribution, and people management. You will set technical direction, mentor your small team, and work hands-on with an SDK that involves a lot of C++, Python, and Protobuf, alongside a growing TypeScript codebase.

How your work moves the mission forward

• Empower software developers to access the Intrinsic platform APIs and to use Intrinsic tools to extend Flowstate.
• Lead the team in making our platform software more readily available and accessible for external users.
• Drive technical efforts to work closer to ROS and integrate deeply with other open-source ecosystems.
• Mentor engineers to foster technical growth while acting as a hands-on individual contributor.

Skills you will need to be successful

• Experience leading a team of software engineers.
• Advanced proficiency programming in at least one of C++, Python, or Go.
• Proficiency programming in at least two programming languages.
• Extensive experience with Protobuf.
• Experience contributing to or managing projects within open-source ecosystems.

Skills that will differentiate your candidacy

• Experience developing and maintaining a TypeScript codebase.
• Familiarity with ROS or other robotics software.
• Experience extending and maintaining Bazel infrastructure.

Role

As an Automation and Controls Engineer, you will design, build, and deploy robotic automation systems. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and customers to determine system requirements, suggest automation layouts, and select and source hardware. You will actively program automation workcells and bring robotics solutions from initial concept through the execution of a successful delivery. Your work will involve continuous collaboration with software developers, product managers, and researchers to invent, maintain, and refine our robotic platforms.

How your work moves the mission forward

• Design and implement rapid, innovative robotic automation workcells, taking projects from hardware selection and electrical design to robot, PLC, and HMI programming.
• Collaborate with product managers, software developers, and researchers to maintain, improve, and invent our robotic platform from the ground up.
• Source and integrate best-in-class technology products into automation workcells.
• Evaluate and actively weigh decisions to build capabilities in-house versus partnering with external system integrators to build a solution.
• Concept new robotic automation applications and scope the effort, feasibility, and cost to build a solution.
• Establish hardware selection and PLC software standards by applying knowledge of industrial control systems.
• Document and communicate your work clearly for internal and external stakeholders.

Skills you will need to be successful

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
• 3 years of professional experience applying robotics, PLC programming (e.g., Beckhoff, Pilz), fieldbus communication, or motion controllers to systems deployed in manufacturing facilities.
• Demonstrable experience with robot programming (e.g., Fanuc, KUKA, UR, ABB).
• Experience selecting components and designing electrical and pneumatic schematics for automation equipment, including the ability to assemble designed electrical panels.
• Proficient in debugging and wiring robotic industrial control systems.
• Willingness to work in ambiguity, select a direction, and drive towards a solution.

Skills that will differentiate your candidacy

• Experience designing and implementing safety circuitry and safety logic for use in industrial automation.
• Experience working with and managing vendors, from writing RFPs or SOWs to managing their execution and taking part in system acceptance tests.
• Exposure to numerous industries that use robotic automation.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally.

Role

As a Robotics Software Engineer specializing in Robot Learning and Manipulation, you will drive the design, training, validation and deployment of contact-rich manipulation skills for real-world manufacturing. Your focus will be on solving dexterous, contact-rich assembly tasks. You will develop and integrate advanced sensor-based control strategies and Machine Learning (ML) policies within the Intrinsic Robot Control stack, managing the full model lifecycle - from architecture, large-scale data collection and training to validation, deployment and cycle-time optimization - to meet rigorous industrial standards.

How your work moves the mission forward

• Develop, train, and deploy multi-modal feedback- and interaction controllers to solve high-precision insertion and assembly tasks.
• Lead the AI manipulation model lifecycle, conducting regular trials on industrial hardware to evaluate algorithmic changes and curate high-quality training datasets.
• Architect and build modular components for reinforcement learning and imitation learning, continuously seeking to improve the robustness of contact-rich assembly tasks.
• Stress-test and optimize the real-time execution framework for learned manipulation models within the Intrinsic platform.

Skills you will need to be successful

• PhD or equivalent professional experience in Robot Learning and AI Manipulation (e.g., Applied RL, Visuomotor Policy Learning, Vision-Language-Action models).
• 2 years of professional experience in C++ and Python, with a proven track record of shipping production-quality code.
• ML Frameworks: Deep expertise with JAX, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.
• Hardware Experience: Direct experience testing and iterating on physical robots integrated with vision and force-torque sensors.
• Operational Grit: A desire to spend significant time in the lab, managing hardware experiments and troubleshooting physical-world edge cases.
• Communication: Business fluency in English.

Skills that will differentiate your candidacy

• Multimodal Perception and Control: Expertise in integrating tactile/force sensing and computer vision  for contact-rich tasks.
• Hardware Experience: Direct experience testing and iterating on physical robot manipulators integrated with vision and force-torque sensors.
• Large-Scale Training: Proficiency in training on massive multimodal datasets and managing cloud-based training workflows (e.g. Argo).
• Infrastructure: Experience with cloud-based training (Argo) and deploying inference on the edge.
• Customer Focus: Willingness to travel internationally to analyze customer use cases and deploy solutions under ambitious timelines.

Role

As a software engineer for Developer Experience, you are in the prime position to supercharge our engineering productivity. We are a fast paced org with a rapidly increasing install base of on-prem hardware and software moving real hardware in real time. We heavily leverage cloud platforms for our robots’ compute needs. Shaping and testing our internal engineering environment using state of the art tooling is an exciting challenge we tackle every day. 

How your work moves the mission forward

• Advance the buildout of Intrinsic's inner-loop infrastructure to develop, build, and test code. This is an opportunity to design and build a best-in-class developer infrastructure from the ground up, by integrating industry best practices with the latest advances in AI-powered development.
• Develop and evangelize best practices for building, packaging and deploying software for the next generation of robotics systems.

Skills you will need to be successful

• A degree in computer science or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience working as a software engineer or in software development
• Worked on a collaborative software project (10+ contributors) on a distributed VCS.
• Has contributed meaningfully to a project within one of  the following categories: build systems, CI/CD systems, code review, code search, or IDE integration/extensions.
• Experience with one of these coding languages: Golang, Python, Rust, and/or C++.

Skills that will differentiate your candidacy

• Experience with build systems (e.g. Blaze, Bazel, CMake, Ant, Maven, Gradle, Pants, …).
• Experience with distributed build farms (e.g. Buildbarn, Buildfarm, GCC CompileFarm, …).
• Experience with CI/CD systems (e.g. Jenkins, Travis, Circle CI, Spinnaker, Terraform). 
• Experience with integrating IDEs (e.g. Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ, Eclipse, …) into developer infrastructure.
• Experience with GitHub-based custom infrastructure and workflows (monorepo setups are a plus).
• Experience with AI-based dev/build/test/review tools.

Role

As a Senior Robotics Software Engineer working on mobile robot orchestration, you will collaborate with a diverse team of roboticists and software developers to reimagine how mobile robots make their way through the complex, dynamic world that we live in. You will develop high-performance multi-agent path finding algorithms that enable hundreds to thousands of robots to operate in densely packed factories and warehouses. You will design robust behaviors for fleets of mobile robots to seamlessly interact with automated doors, elevators, and robot workcells. Your work will be deployed in a wide variety of dynamic environments, including factories, warehouses, malls, hospitals, campuses, and commercial buildings. Through close collaboration with the Open Robotics community, you will shape open specifications for mobile robot interoperability.

How your work moves the mission forward

• Examine challenging environments and identify strategies for seamless mobile robot traffic.
• Develop software tools to make mobile robot traffic behavior easy to understand and debug.
• Implement various algorithms for multi-agent path finding and benchmark them across diverse environments.
• Build extensible reusable libraries that empower customers to tailor their mobile robot traffic behaviors to their unique scenarios.

Skills you will need to be successful

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proficiency in systems programming languages such as C++, Python, or Rust.
• Demonstrable experience with autonomous mobile robots (such as MiR, OTTO, Geek+).
• Expertise in programming reactive software systems.
• Experience architecting distributed multi-agent systems using ROS, Zenoh, MQTT, gRPC, or REST APIs.

Skills that will differentiate your candidacy

• A Masters or Doctoral degree relevant to mobile robot orchestration.
• Peer-reviewed research papers related to multi-agent path finding.
• Expertise in the Rust programming language.
• Experience deploying large-scale mobile robot traffic systems.
• Experience deploying mobile robots in human-centric environments.
• Comfort engaging with diverse stakeholders to assimilate broad perspectives and build consensus.

Role

As a Robotics Software Engineer, you will develop innovative algorithms and strategies to facilitate robust grasping and manipulation in complex, real-world manufacturing environments. You will be responsible for abstracting the inherent complexity of robotic manipulation into intuitive, seamless workflows. By building a software layer that possesses a deep understanding of manufacturing tasks, you enable users to transition from design to execution without needing deep subject matter expertise. Working alongside a diverse team of roboticists and application engineers, you will integrate and validate solutions across various industrial tasks and contribute to the launch of impactful robotics products.

How your work moves the mission forward

• Design and implement robust and efficient production-ready algorithms for robotic grasping and manipulation.
• Identify opportunities to apply cutting-edge advancements in robotics and apply them to practical industrial problems.
• Transform complex partner requirements into highly reliable and functional technical outcomes.
• Improve our robotics software framework and contribute to a reliable product.

Skills you will need to be successful

• Master’s degree  in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field, with 5+ years of experience in robotic manipulation.
• Strong foundation in linear algebra, spatial transformations, and rigid body dynamics.
• Hardware Experience: Direct experience testing and iterating on physical robots.
• 3 years of professional experience programming robotics software in C++ and Python,  with a proven track record of shipping production-quality code.

Skills that will differentiate your candidacy

• PhD in Robotics and Machine Learning,  Reinforcement Learning, or a related field with a focus on robotic manipulation.
• ML Frameworks: Deep expertise with JAX, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.
• Experience in developing the entire stack: ranging from writing kinematics, motion generation, to system integration and testing. 

Role

In this role, you will establish and lead an engineering team dedicated to the stability and endurance of our robotics software platform. You will design systems that proactively identify vulnerabilities within our APIs, SDKs, web interfaces, and cloud-to-edge communication layers.  By simulating scenarios such as AI model inference timeouts, high network latency, data pipeline congestion, and malformed input, you will ensure the platform maintains a safe and predictable state even when the environment is not. You will guide a specialized team in developing automated frameworks that replicate real-world disruptions, thus providing a dependable infrastructure for the developers building the next generation of AI-driven robotics. This responsibility includes developing the necessary monitoring tools to gain deep insights into overall system health. As a key technical leader, you will collaborate with world-class engineering teams in Mountain View and Munich to synchronize resilience strategies and set global standards for software reliability.

How your work moves the mission forward

• Create automated resilience tests focusing on service boundaries and hybrid environments (on-prem and Cloud).
• Bolster the robustness of AI integrations by implementing failure injection within data pipelines.
• Deploy fuzzing and property-based testing techniques platform-wide to guarantee graceful degradation.
• Enhance the stability of developer tools and frontend systems against latency and service interruptions.
• Cultivate a culture of reliability through engineer mentorship in defensive programming and by spearheading global "Game Day" exercises.
• Construct observability tools to monitor and analyze holistic system health.

Skills you will need to be successful

• 4-year degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
• At least 5 years experience in software engineering. 
• Demonstrable experience with cloud computing.
• Proven ability to lead a team, providing architectural guidance and fostering professional growth for other engineers in a global setting.
• Experience with one of Go, Python, or C++.
• Strong communication skills. 

Skills that will differentiate your candidacy

• Distributed Systems Architecture: Strong experience building and debugging hybrid software environments where local runtimes interact with cloud-hosted services.
• Reliability Engineering Patterns: Deep understanding of software patterns for resilience, such as circuit breaking, retries with backoff, and bulkhead isolation.
• Automated Testing Proficiency: Expertise in creating frameworks for fault injection, property-based testing or coverage-guided fuzzing.
• Full-Stack Technical Knowledge: Competency in systems-level languages and an understanding of how to build resilient frontend interfaces.
• Infrastructure & Tooling: Hands-on experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes/Docker) and CI/CD pipelines to automate failure simulations.
• Robotics Software Experience: Hands-on experience with robotics frameworks or complex hardware-interfacing software.

Role

As a Staff Robotics Software Engineer and Researcher, you will take full technical ownership of developing and deploying robotics grasping and manipulation algorithms, leading the end-to-end lifecycle from foundational research to global deployment. You will help define the architecture and long-term strategy that enables robots to interact with the physical world, researching and scoping innovative solutions for robust grasping in industrial settings. By abstracting the inherent complexity of robotic manipulation into intuitive workflows, you will work with a multidisciplinary team to integrate and validate high-availability software within complex, real-world industrial applications for manufacturing environments.

How your work moves the mission forward

• Design and implement robust and efficient production-ready algorithms for robotic grasping and manipulation.
• Identify opportunities to apply cutting-edge advancements in robotics and apply them to practical industrial problems.
• Transform complex partner requirements into highly reliable and functional technical outcomes.
• Mentor junior engineers, contribute to the strategic roadmap and drive the evolution of our robotic software stack for global industrial deployment.

Skills you will need to be successful

• Master’s degree  in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field, with 8+ years of experience in robotic manipulation.
• 2 years of leading substantial, ambiguous  technical projects from inception to deployment. 
• Strong foundational knowledge in linear algebra, spatial transformations, and rigid body dynamics.
• 6 years of professional experience programming robotics software in C++ and Python,  with a proven track record of shipping production-quality code.
• Experience Machine Learning  in applied robotics context.

Skills that will differentiate your candidacy

• PhD in Robotics and Machine Learning,  Reinforcement Learning, or a related field with a focus on robotic manipulation.
• ML Frameworks: Deep expertise with JAX, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.
• Experience in developing the entire stack: ranging from writing kinematics, motion generation, to system integration and testing. 

Role

As a Robotics Software Testing Engineer, you will collaborate with fellow engineers in maintaining and testing software for robotics, in the domain of industrial factory automation. You will play a key role in ensuring software stability and compatibility, by designing and implementing comprehensive and automated test suites. You will work closely with engineers and stakeholders to design testing pipelines with hardware in-the-loop. You will assist in the upkeep of Open-RMF, interacting with users and the open source community on matters of issues, fixes, and feature requests.

How your work moves the mission forward

• Enable the team to discover, isolate and mitigate issues swiftly.
• Empower the team to deploy with confidence.
• Accelerate the development of robot interoperability and factory orchestration at scale.
• Provide a consistent and reliable testing pipeline to accelerate development, bug reproduction and fixes.

Skills you will need to be successful

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or Robotics, or equivalent practical experience.
• Familiarity with modern programming practices in C++, Python, or Rust.
• Experience in designing and maintaining software testing pipelines with upstream dependencies and downstream users.
• Experience with distributed systems and communication protocols such as REST or ROS 2.
• Experience with both simulated (Gazebo) and hardware mobile robot platforms.

Skills that will differentiate your candidacy

• Experience with Open-RMF.
• Experience in Rust.
• In-depth knowledge of isolation, containerization and Kubernetes.
• Experience with industrial robotic arms.