Robotics Full Stack Software Engineer
Persona AI Inc5 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Build reliable, debuggable, understandable software bridging robot controls and XR.
- Interface directly with hardware SDKs for robot sensing, control, and data collection.
- Create low-latency, predictive data-streaming pipelines over unreliable WiFi and cellular networks.
- Build systems supporting motion retargeting and robot control.
- Develop scalable monitoring, metrics, and alerting infrastructure for a growing robot fleet.
- Optimize rendering pipelines to preserve operator feedback fidelity, latency, and frame rate.
- Develop controls algorithms connecting the operator to the robot.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of software experience with a strong systems engineering background.
- Exceptional production-level Rust experience.
- Experience as a system architect and API designer.
- Solid Python skills for tooling, test harnesses, and automation.
- Deep understanding of low-level networking, including TCP/IP, UDP, WiFi, cellular, and BLE, with experience optimizing latency-sensitive protocols.
- Deep Linux experience, including embedded environments.
- Experience integrating hardware SDKs.
- Strong ownership and communication skills, with the ability to work across hardware, firmware, and XR engineering teams.
- Familiarity with rendering optimization and preserving data fidelity under constrained compute or bandwidth is a bonus.
- Working knowledge of robotic control concepts such as kinematics, motion retargeting, and sensor integration is a bonus.
- Experience with low-level graphics or rendering pipelines is a bonus.
- Experience teleoperating robots or controlling physical systems is a bonus.
- Familiarity with Nix or Bazel is a bonus.
- Open-source contributions, especially in robotics or systems software, are a bonus.
- XR or embedded Linux development experience is a bonus.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and performance-based bonus.
- 99% employer-covered medical benefits.
- Early-stage equity.
- Competitive paid time off.
- Company-wide paid winter break from December 24th through January 2nd.
- Full-time position based in Houston, Texas, or Pensacola, Florida, with 10% travel.