Full Stack Engineer, Physical Intelligence
General-purpose AI for the physical world
Open for applications
General-purpose AI for the physical world
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
To power the robots of today and the physically-actuated devices of the future.
Role
Who you are
- Strong frontend experience (React/TypeScript, modern UI patterns)
- Solid backend development skills (Python, FastAPI/Flask, SQL/NoSQL)
- Experience building tools, dashboards, or workflow-heavy applications
- Strong product instincts: ability to map real workflows into clean, intuitive software
- Comfortable working hands-on with end users and iterating quickly
Desirable
- Experience with real-time systems, robotics, or IoT
- Alerting systems, workflow engines, scheduling logic
- Data visualization or building metadata-heavy dashboards
- UX design sensibilities for operator-facing tools
What the job involves
- Physical Intelligence is building general-purpose AI for the physical world. Running our robot fleet efficiently is core to our mission: it drives data collection, evaluation throughput, and research velocity
- As an Ops Engineer, you’ll own the full-stack systems that operators and shift leads rely on every single day, from dashboards and scheduling workflows to alerting, metadata management, and task/eval interfaces
- You’ll work directly on the floor with operators and task designers to understand friction points, then turn those insights into fast, intuitive, reliable tools
- This is a practical, product-focused engineering role at the intersection of UI, backend logic, and real-world robot operations
- The Operations Team implements on-the-ground manifestation of PI’s AI
- They manage the software interfaces and tools needed to solve a wide diversity of problems such as coordinating a robot fleet with human operators, augmenting data with annotations, and running experiments to evaluate the performance of AI models
- Build Interfaces: Implement fast, ergonomic GUIs (React/TypeScript) for operators, shift leads, and internal workflows
- Backend Development: Build APIs and services (Python/FastAPI/Flask, SQL/NoSQL) powering scheduling, alerting, metadata management, and task lifecycle tools
- Operational Workflow Design: Translate on-the-floor workflows into clean abstractions that reduce manual effort and mistakes
- Automation: Create proactive alerts, automated scheduling logic, and exception-driven workflows that reduce human overhead
- Metadata & Visualization: Build tools for surfacing key metadata, task definitions, per-robot state, station context, performance metrics, in clear, actionable views
- Hands-On Collaboration: Work directly with operators, shift leads, and task designers to identify bottlenecks and rapidly iterate on solutions
Our take
To empower intelligent robotics and devices, Physical Intelligence is developing general purpose AI for the physical world. The company is working to create the foundation models and learning algorithms that will support smarter robots and devices today and in the future.
The company is in its early stages, so there is little concrete information to go on, although the team behind it seems eager to share more information soon. Physical Intelligence is backed by the support of Khosla Ventures, Lux Capital, OpenAI, Sequoia Capital and Thrive Capital.
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Company
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Karol Hausman
(Co-Founder & CEO)Adjunct Professor at Stanford University. Previously Staff Research Scientist and Robot Manipulation Lead at Google Brain, a Research Assistant at the University of Southern California and Research Intern at DeepMind.
Chelsea Finn
(Co-Founder)Assistant Professor at Stanford University. Previously a Research Scientist at Google Brain, PhD Student at UC Berkeley and Engineering Intern at Counsyl.
Brian Ichter
(Co-Founder)Previously a Research Scientist at Google, Research Assistant at Stanford University and Researcher at the University of Virginia.
Lachy Groom
(Co-Founder)Former Head of Stripe Issuing at Stripe.
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