Role Description

We are seeking an exceptional Sr. Mechanical Engineer to design and test innovative robotic hardware ranging from overall robot architecture down to detailed design of robot subassemblies and mechanisms.

In this role you will:

• Brainstorm and develop innovative and practical concepts for general purpose robotic systems.
• Work closely with our business development, modeling & simulation, software, integration & testing, and industrial design teams to define loading conditions, performance requirements and packaging.
• Design assemblies and components in 3D CAD from conceptual architecture through detailed design and drawing release.
• Work with vendors and manufacturers to produce your components.
• Support assembly, integration, and testing of robotic hardware.

Qualifications

Must-have:

• 5+ years of experience in mechanical engineering.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in mechanical engineering, robotics, mechatronics, or similar field.
• Expert user of 3D CAD software to design complex parts and assemblies.
• Familiarity with structural design and analysis principles including FEA.
• Experience with electromechanical integration, including motors, sensors, servo drives, speed reducers, electronics packaging, and wiring.
• Self-starter attitude with strong ability to identify problems, prioritize them, then plan and execute working solutions.
• Enthusiasm for working in a fast paced startup environment and eagerness to support the team on a variety of topics.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience designing high performance robotic systems including actuators and dexterous end-effectors.
• Experience designing and analyzing structures that are highly optimized for mass and stiffness.
• High volume manufacturing experience.  Design of cast and molded parts.

Company Overview

Maven Robotics is building the world’s leading general-purpose robots and providing physical AI solutions for the most challenging industrial autonomy tasks.

Operating in stealth, we are assembling a team of world-class innovators who think from first principles. Our mission is to achieve human-level task success rates in complex environments, even when faced with limited fine-tuning data or evolving robotic hardware. We value unwavering truth-seeking, humility, and relentless determination.

Role Description

We are seeking exceptional AI researchers and engineers to architect the neural backbone of our general-purpose robots. You will design the Vision-Language-Action (VLA) frameworks or Action World Models that allow our robots to reason, adapt, and succeed where traditional automation fails.

Note on Leveling: We are hiring across all levels (from early-career to staff/principal). You are not expected to be a master of every domain listed below; however, you must be able to justify world-class excellence in at least one core factor (e.g., model architecture, RL formulations, or high-scale data systems).

In this role, you will:

• Architect Embodied Foundations: Design model architectures (VLA, World Models, etc.) that achieve ultra-high task success rates with minimal human demonstrations.

• Master Data Efficiency: Develop novel co-training strategies and efficient learning algorithms that leverage diverse data sources—from Internet-scale video to sparse, high-fidelity human interventions.

• Generalize Cross Embodiments: Build models capable of zero-shot or few-shot adaptation to new robot configurations, maintaining a high success rate even when proprietary hardware and actuation systems evolve.

• Innovate Real-World RL: Formulate and deploy novel Reinforcement Learning and policy extraction methods specifically designed for physical, real-world manipulation.

• Design the Data Loop: Collaborate on advanced data collection systems to capture critical human intervention data for model bootstrapping.

Qualifications

Must-have:

• MS or PhD in CS, Robotics, Machine Learning, or a related field (or equivalent industry experience).

• Deep Technical Mastery: Advanced understanding of transformers, multi-modal alignment, and mapping perception to high-frequency motor control.

• Specialized Excellence: Proven ability to innovate—not just implement—within one or more areas: VLA models, Real-world RL, or large-scale Data Infrastructure.

• Software Excellence: Expert-level Python and deep familiarity with PyTorch or JAX

Nice-to-have:

• A track record of high-impact publications (NeurIPS, ICRA, RSS, CVPR) or significant open-source contributions.

• Experience with large-scale distributed training and model compression.

• Experience with deployment of models to edge devices (NVIDIA Jetson/Orin) for real-time inference.

• General knowledge of robotics principles (kinematics, dynamics).

Why Maven Robotics?

You will be working on a unique in-house robot platform that is evolving alongside your models. We don't just want to reach 90% success; we are building the architectural breakthroughs required to reach 99.9% in the real world.

Role Description

We are looking to recruit an exceptional Robot Field Operator to support the deployment and operation of our robotic solutions in the field.

In this role you will be a critical part of our field deployment team, ensuring the continuous and efficient operation of our robotic solutions in customer facilities. 

Key responsibilities include:

• System Operation: Oversee and operate mobile robotic systems within the production environment to meet operational goals.
• Workflow Observation: Observe and provide feedback on the task workflow to the software development team to continuously improve operational efficiency.
• Performance Management: Proactively monitor and manage robot task performance to maintain required production targets.
• Intervention & Correction: Manually intervene to correct tasks that the robot has mishandled.
• Field Maintenance: Execute routine and preventative maintenance on robotic hardware and electromechanical systems to ensure peak performance.
• Software Triage & Reporting: Conduct first-level software triage, diagnose operational issues, and clearly report findings to the engineering development team for resolution.   

You will be working closely with robot software developers and hardware designers to improve the design and functionality of the robots.

Qualifications

Must-have:

• ​​Education & Experience:
  • Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a closely related technical field.
  • OR an Associate's degree in a related engineering field plus a minimum of 4 years of hands-on experience testing or operating robotic or electromechanical systems.
• Technical Expertise:
  • Demonstrated hands-on experience working with complex robotic or electromechanical systems.
  • Proficiency with C++/Python programming languages and familiarity with ROS2 and Linux-based development and debugging environments.
  • Working knowledge of common robotics networking and communication protocols (e.g., CANOpen, EtherCAT, UART).
• Operational Requirements:
  • Ability to work independently, troubleshoot issues effectively, and ensure the successful completion of robotic tasks.
  • Comfortable working with standard mechanical and electrical tools (e.g., screwdrivers, wrenches, crimpers, multi-meter).
  • Ability to work for extended periods in a non-climate-controlled warehouse environment and perform necessary manual labor and intervention tasks.

Nice-to-have:

• Previous experience deploying and supporting robotic systems in field or production environments.

• Familiarity with safety-critical or real-time software systems

Company Overview

Maven Robotics is building the world’s leading general-purpose AI robots.

We are currently operating in stealth and are growing the world’s best team in AI robotics. We are looking for self-starters that are the world’s best in their field, who can innovate from a deep understanding of the fundamentals, and who share our values of unwavering truth seeking and integrity, humility, curiosity, and relentless determination.

Role Description

We are looking to recruit an exceptional Embedded Software Engineer - Real-Time Linux to help build the foundational real-time Linux platform powering the brains of our autonomous robotics systems. This is a critical role for developing high-performance, GPU-accelerated compute platforms tailored to robotics and machine learning workloads.

In this role you will:

• Design, adapt, and integrate POSIX-compliant systems for advanced robotics and machine learning (ML) applications.
• Develop the framework for integration of controls, machine learning and supporting algorithms with real-time tasks.
• Collaborate with Controls and Machine Learning engineers to develop and optimize high performance autonomous systems.
• Develop and maintain drivers for integration with real-time robotic middleware.
• Build tools to monitor, verify and optimize system performance, ensuring reliable and deterministic behavior.
• Contribute to a deterministic and reproducible build and test environment for efficient development.
• Work with functional safety engineers to support standards compliance, audit readiness, and traceability.
• Develop robust solutions for over-the-air (OTA) updates, calibration management and software deployment strategies.
• Tackle complex, real-world challenges alongside a multidisciplinary team of experts.

Qualifications

Must-have:

• MS in computer engineering, computer science or a related discipline.
• Production experience with bringup and configuration of Linux PREEMPT_RT and similar operating systems (e.g. QNX).
• Strong understanding of Linux device trees, scheduling and memory management.
• Experience with multicore ARM SoCs, interprocess/intercore communications and message passing.
• Proficiency in C and C++
• Experience with ROS 2 middleware and alternatives (Eg. FastDDS, CycloneDDS, Zenoh).
• Familiarity with container technologies, container runtimes and related concepts (Eg. Docker, Containerd, Overlayfs).
• Understanding of toolchains (compilers, linkers, debuggers, static analysis tools)
• Self-starter attitude with strong ability to identify problems, prioritize them, then plan and execute working solutions.
• Proactive, self-driven mindset with a strong ability to prioritize and deliver in a fast-paced startup environment.

Nice-to-have:

• Familiarity with communication protocols (e.g. Ethernet, EtherCAT, CAN, CANOpen).
• Knowledge of ARM SIMD/NEON architecture extensions.
• Proficiency in additional programming languages (e.g. Python, Rust, Golang).
• Expertise with multi-language build systems (e.g. Bazel, Bob).
• Experience with Hypervisors (e.g. QNX Hypervisor, Jailhouse, Xen).
• Understanding of container orchestration systems and tools (Eg. Kubernetes).

Company Overview

Maven Robotics is building the world’s leading general-purpose AI robots.

We are currently operating in stealth and are growing the world’s best team in AI robotics. We are looking for self-starters that are the world’s best in their field, who can innovate from a deep understanding of the fundamentals, and who share our values of unwavering truth seeking and integrity, humility, curiosity, and relentless determination.

Role Description

We are looking to recruit an exceptional Machine Learning Engineer - Robot Manipulation to design, implement, test, and deploy robot manipulation algorithms that enable assembly and material movement tasks.

In this role you will:

• Design and implement machine learning algorithms, with a focus on reinforcement learning (RL) and imitation learning (IL), to enable robotic manipulators to perform complex tasks in dynamic environments.
• Translate high-level objectives into machine learning problems and deploy robust, scalable models to real-world robotic systems.
• Integrate your ML solutions into existing robotics workflows, ensuring that models are performant in both simulated and real-world settings.
• Drive innovation by incorporating the latest research in machine learning into practical applications that push the boundaries of robotic manipulation.
• Take ownership of critical ML projects, seeing them through from conception to successful deployment.
• Collaborate across disciplines to ensure seamless integration of ML models and provide technical mentorship to junior engineers.

Qualifications

Must-have:

• MS or PhD in machine learning, computer science, robotics, or a related field.
• Strong practical experience in training and deploying machine learning models for real-world applications.
• Deep understanding of reinforcement learning (RL) and imitation learning (IL) and their application to robotics.
• Proficiency in programming languages and tools commonly used in machine learning (e.g., Python, PyTorch).
• Experience with data collection, preprocessing, and management in the context of training ML models.
• Self-starter attitude with strong ability to identify problems, prioritize them, then plan and execute working solutions.
• Enthusiasm for working in a fast paced startup environment and eagerness to support the team on a variety of topics.

Nice-to-have:

• Familiarity with robotic simulation environments (e.g., Gazebo, MuJoCo) and experience in sim-to-real transfer.
• Experience in:
• Designing and implementing reward functions for complex manipulation tasks.
• Developing models that can handle noisy, incomplete, or sparse data.
• Deployment of ML models to edge devices for real-time inference.
• Accelerating ML training processes using GPU, TPU, or other HW accelerators.
• Using reinforcement learning frameworks, e.g. Stable Baselines, RLlib, or similar.
• General knowledge of robotics principles, including kinematics, dynamics, and control.
• Publications or contributions to the machine learning community, particularly in areas related to robotics or reinforcement learning.

Company Overview

Maven Robotics is building the world’s leading general-purpose AI robots.

We are currently operating in stealth and are growing the world’s best team in AI robotics. We are looking for self-starters that are the world’s best in their field, who can innovate from a deep understanding of the fundamentals, and who share our values of unwavering truth seeking and integrity, humility, curiosity, and relentless determination.

Role Description

We are seeking an exceptional Data Collection Operator to operate robots through advanced data collection systems and contribute to the development of cutting-edge AI-driven robotics. In this role, you will work closely with our robotics and AI teams to collect high-quality motion and behavior data that trains our robots to perform complex tasks in dynamic environments.

In this role you will:

• Operate robots using advanced data collection systems.
• Guide robots through designated motions, manipulation tasks, and workflows to collect high-quality demonstration data.
• Upload, validate, and organize collected data used for training AI models.
• Identify, troubleshoot, and report operational issues during data collection.
• Follow robot bring-up, calibration, and shutdown procedures to ensure safe, reliable operations.
• Collaborate closely with AI, perception, and controls engineers to refine teleoperation pipelines and improve robot behaviors.
• Maintain a safe, efficient, and organized work environment throughout data collection and operations.

Qualifications

Must-have:

• Excellent physical coordination, spatial awareness, and attention to detail.
• Comfortable using data collection equipment for extended periods of time without loss of focus.
• Ability to stand, walk, and operate equipment for up to 8+ hours per day.
• Quick learner who can master new physical tasks and workflows efficiently.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to adapt in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment.
• Comfortable providing and receiving constructive feedback.
• Passion for robotics, AI, and emerging technologies.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience operating teleoperation systems, humanoid robots, or robotic manipulators.
• Familiarity with VR interfaces, haptic control devices, or motion tracking systems.
• Understanding of robot kinematics, motion planning, or control systems.
• Basic troubleshooting skills for hardware and software during teleoperation.
• Enthusiasm for contributing to the development and scaling of next-generation robotic systems.

Company Overview

Maven Robotics is building the world’s leading general-purpose AI robots.

We are currently operating in stealth and are growing the world’s best team in AI robotics. We are looking for self-starters that are the world’s best in their field, who can innovate from a deep understanding of the fundamentals, and who share our values of unwavering truth seeking and integrity, humility, curiosity, and relentless determination.

Role Description

We are looking to recruit an exceptional Motion Planning & Controls Engineer to develop the software that brings our robot hardware to life, implementing planning and control algorithms that provide purposeful, performant, safe, reliable, and beautiful coordinated motion.

In this role you will:

• Cover the entire software stack that governs robot motion, from optimization-based motion planning and control for an overactuated autonomous system, down to individual motor torque control (and everywhere in between).
• Utilize deep expertise in and intuition for complex, high degree-of-freedom electromechanical systems.
• Employ a true multi-disciplinary mindset, bridging mechanical, electrical, software, and systems engineering domains to solve real-world problems.
• Interface with perception, intelligence, simulation, and platform software systems in designing thoughtful functional architectures that ensure world-class overall robot system performance.
• Have an unrelenting drive to achieve exceptional motion quality via continual test, measurement, analysis, and improvement.

Qualifications

Must-have:

• MS or PhD in engineering, mathematics, computer science or a related discipline.
• Experience in optimization-based motion planning and control algorithms such as Model Predictive Control.
• Experience in control, estimation, modeling, and analysis of complex. multi-degree-of-freedom electromechanical systems, including forward/inverse kinematics, forward/inverse dynamics, and task/joint space control.
• Practical experience with motor servo control (position/velocity/torque control) architectures and tuning.
• Proficiency in Python and C++ programming, using up-to-date software development practices and tooling.
• Self-starter attitude with strong ability to identify problems, prioritize them, then plan and execute working solutions.
• Enthusiasm for working in a fast paced startup environment and eagerness to support the team on a variety of topics.

Nice-to-have:

• Familiarity with ground vehicle localization, mapping, and state estimation techniques (e.g. SLAM, Kalman filtering).
• Familiarity with robotic simulation software frameworks/environments.
• Familiarity with modern approaches to robotic manipulation, including state-of-the-art reinforcement learning (RL) and imitation learning (IL) approaches and their application to real-world robots.
• Knowledge of brushless motor current control (e.g. field-oriented control).
• Familiarity with functional safety (FuSa) concepts.

Company Overview

Maven Robotics is building the world’s leading general-purpose AI robots.

We are currently operating in stealth and are growing the world’s best team in AI robotics. We are looking for self-starters that are the world’s best in their field, who can innovate from a deep understanding of the fundamentals, and who share our values of unwavering truth seeking and integrity, humility, curiosity, and relentless determination.

Role Description

We are looking to recruit an exceptional Software Engineer - Software Development and Machine Learning Operations to build and maintain the infrastructure that supports our software development, machine learning models, and AI operations.

In this role you will:

• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines to facilitate seamless code integration and deployment.
• Monitor and optimize system performance, availability, and security.
• Automate infrastructure orchestration and configuration management using tools such as Kubernetes, Ansible, and similar.
• Configure and maintain data infrastructure appliances.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to applications, infrastructure, and deployments.
• Work closely with our development and AI teams to deliver solutions that increase efficiency and stability.

Qualifications

Must-have:

• BS or MS in software engineering, computer science, or a related field.
• Proven experience standing up a CI/CD system from scratch.
• Experience with multi-language build systems (e.g., Bazel, Bob).
• Proficiency with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Strong programming skills in languages such as Python, Go, or Java.
• Self-starter attitude with strong ability to identify problems, prioritize them, then plan and execute working solutions.
• Enthusiasm for working in a fast paced startup environment and eagerness to support the team on a variety of topics.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with MLOps platforms (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow, or SageMaker).
• Knowledge of big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, or Kafka).
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
• Understanding of machine learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Scikit-Learn).
• Experience with edge computing and IoT device management.
• Knowledge of security best practices and compliance standards in AI/ML environments.
• Proficiency in database management systems (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra).
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., CloudFormation, Pulumi).
• Knowledge of GitOps practices and tools (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux).

Company Overview

Maven Robotics is building the world’s leading general-purpose AI robots.

We are currently operating in stealth and are growing the world’s best team in AI robotics. We are looking for self-starters that are the world’s best in their field, who can innovate from a deep understanding of the fundamentals, and who share our values of unwavering truth seeking and integrity, humility, curiosity, and relentless determination.

Role Description

We are looking to recruit an exceptional Machine Learning Engineer - Robot Perception to design, implement, test, and deploy robot perception algorithms that power our robots’ ability to understand and interact with the world.

In this role you will:

• Develop, train, and deploy ML-based perception algorithms for object detection, pose estimation, tracking, and scene understanding.
• Integrate sensor fusion techniques using cameras, depth sensors, IMUs, and tactile feedback.
• Optimize real-time perception pipelines for low-latency and robust performance in dynamic environments.
• Work closely with hardware engineers to design sensor configurations and optimize perception models for onboard deployment.
• Contribute to our broader AI and autonomy stack, ensuring seamless integration with reasoning, manipulation, planning and control.
• Collaborate across disciplines to ensure seamless integration of ML models and provide technical mentorship to junior engineers.

Qualifications

Must-have:

• MS or PhD in machine learning, computer science, robotics, or a related field.
• Strong background in computer vision, deep learning, and sensor fusion.
• Proficiency in Python and C++, with experience in frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenCV, and ROS.
• Hands-on experience with real-world robotics perception systems (e.g., SLAM, 3D reconstruction, multimodal perception).
• Experience working with hardware, including setting up and calibrating cameras, LiDAR, and other sensors.
• Experience with data collection, preprocessing, and management in the context of training ML models.
• Self-starter attitude with strong ability to identify problems, prioritize them, then plan and execute working solutions.
• Enthusiasm for working in a fast paced startup environment and eagerness to support the team on a variety of topics.

Nice-to-have:

• Familiarity with robotic simulation environments (e.g., Gazebo, MuJoCo) and experience in sim-to-real transfer.
• Experience in:
  • Developing models that can handle noisy, incomplete, or sparse data.
  • Deployment of ML models to edge devices for real-time inference (e.g., NVIDIA Jetson).
  • Accelerating ML training processes using GPU, TPU, or other HW accelerators.
  • General knowledge of robotics principles, including kinematics, dynamics, and control.

Company Overview

Maven Robotics is building the world’s leading general-purpose AI robots.

We are currently operating in stealth and are growing the world’s best team in AI robotics. We are looking for self-starters that are the world’s best in their field, who can innovate from a deep understanding of the fundamentals, and who share our values of unwavering truth seeking and integrity, humility, curiosity, and relentless determination.

Role Description

We are recruiting for an exceptional Electrical Engineer - Compute Hardware Design to design and test innovative robotic hardware ranging from architectural development through to detailed circuit and PCB/A design and board testing and integration.

In this role you will:

• Perform architectural and compute / component selection trade studies.
• Work closely with our business development, modeling & simulation, software, safety, mechanical, integration & testing, and industrial design teams to define operating conditions, performance requirements, and packaging / thermal targets.
• Design circuits and PCB/A design from conceptual architecture through detailed design and fabrication / assembly drawing release.
• Perform circuit and layout analyses to support design reviews and validate the design/layout meets timing requirements.
• Work with vendors and manufacturers to produce your components and assemblies.
• Support board build, bring-up, design verification, and testing of robotic hardware.

Qualifications

Must-have:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in electrical engineering, robotics, mechatronics, or similar field.
• 5+ years of experience in electrical engineering with a focus on designing compute hardware.
• Expert user of circuit simulation and eCAD software to design circuits and PCB/As.
• Familiarity with design for manufacturability (DFM) practices for PCB/A and module assemblies.
• Experience designing circuits and PCB layout to meet power integrity and high speed signal integrity & timing.
• Self-starter that can drive a concept forward and continuously improve definition through team interaction.

Nice-to-have:

• PhD in electrical engineering, robotics, mechatronics, or similar field.
• Expert user of Altium Designer eCAD software.

Company Overview

Maven Robotics is building the world’s leading general-purpose AI robots.

We are currently operating in stealth and are growing the world’s best team in AI robotics. We are looking for self-starters that are the world’s best in their field, who can innovate from a deep understanding of the fundamentals, and who share our values of unwavering truth seeking and integrity, humility, curiosity, and relentless determination.

Role Description

We are looking to recruit an exceptional Embedded Software Engineer - Real-Time Embedded to develop the foundational software that keeps our robot hardware alive, building the core systems that provide a platform for robust, safe, and deterministic operation.

In this role you will:

• Adapt and integrate a safety certifiable Real Time Operating System (RTOS) and associated drivers for purpose built robotic control hardware.
• Collaborate with hardware engineers to design, develop, and optimize high performance safety-critical systems.
• Develop and adapt device drivers for hardware peripherals (e.g. GPIO, EtherCAT, SPI).
• Build tools to monitor, verify and optimize real time system performance, ensuring deterministic behavior.
• Contribute to a deterministic and reproducible build and test environment for efficient development.
• Collaborate with functional safety engineers to ensure compliance with relevant safety standards and support audit and traceability requirements.
• Develop robust solutions for over-the-air (OTA) updates, calibration management and software deployment strategies.
• Solve complex, real-world challenges alongside a multi-disciplinary team

Qualifications

Must-have:

• MS in computer engineering, computer science or a related discipline.
• Experience with safety-certifiable RTOSes (e.g. PX5, ThreadX, SafeRTOS).
• Expertise in OS fundamentals, including real-time scheduling and memory management.
• Strong understanding of ARM 64 hardware architecture.
• Experience with multicore SoCs, interprocess/intercore communications and atomic operations.
• Production experience with communication protocols (e.g. Ethernet, EtherCAT, CAN)
• Proficiency in low level programming (C, assembly)
• Understanding of bootloaders, hardware abstraction layers and board support packages (BSPs).
• Hands-on experience with development tools including oscilloscopes, hardware debuggers and high speed tracing techniques (e.g. HSSTP).
• Understanding of toolchains (compilers, linkers, debuggers, static analysis tools)
• Familiarity with functional safety (FuSa) concepts, MISRA compliance and related standards.
• Self-starter attitude with strong ability to identify problems, prioritize them, then plan and execute working solutions.
• Enthusiasm for working in a fast paced startup environment and eagerness to support the team on a variety of topics.

Nice-to-have:

• Knowledge of ARM SIMD/NEON architecture extensions.
• Proficiency in additional programming languages (e.g. C++, Python, Rust, Golang).
• Experience with multi-language build systems (e.g. Bazel, Bob).
• Familiarity with ROS 2 middleware and alternatives (Eg. FastDDS, CycloneDDS, Zenoh).
• Experience with Docker, and related containerization tools.