Software Engineer, Robot Interfaces
Physical Intelligence1 month ago
Responsibilities
- Own the software interfaces used to set up, calibrate, operate, monitor, debug, and review robots.
- Design safe, clear workflows that handle failures such as network drops and camera outages predictably.
- Build real-time video, robot-state, and control experiences with connected controllers, headsets, pedals, and sensors.
- Determine which functionality belongs on local devices or on-premise systems versus the cloud control plane.
- Ship, version, roll out, and observe software across labs, warehouses, partner sites, and other physical environments.
- Instrument workflows, measure operational efficiency, test improvements, and drive adoption by gathering requirements and prioritizing work.
Requirements
- Strong full-stack experience building production web applications and APIs with React, TypeScript, and Python.
- Experience with real-time web systems including WebRTC, WebSockets, streaming video, state synchronization, and related debugging.
- Familiarity with binary wire formats and schema-defined interfaces such as protobuf and gRPC.
- Experience deploying software to machines the engineer does not administer, including on-premise or on-device deployment, degraded-network operation, and fleet versioning.
- Strong UX judgment for high-stakes, high-frequency interfaces where errors can have physical consequences.
- Ability to design workflows connecting people, hardware, and software, and to work directly with users amid ambiguous requirements.
- Preferred experience includes founding or early-stage work, teleoperation, robotics, safety-critical or industrial systems, firmware, embedded systems, device integration, workflow or dispatch systems, and the listed technology stack.
Categories
Full StackRobotics
About Physical Intelligence
Physical Intelligence builds general-purpose AI for the physical world, developing foundation models and full-stack robotic systems for robots and other actuated devices. The privately held company was founded in 2024 and focuses on taking designs from prototype to high-volume production, including actuation, mechatronics, and manufacturing process development. Its work aims to power today’s robots and future hardware across industries.