Firmware Engineer, Robust.AI
$130-160k
+ Stock Options
4+ days a week in office (San Carlos, CA)
Industrial-grade cognitive engine for robotics
Open for applications
Industrial-grade cognitive engine for robotics
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$130-160k
+ Stock Options
4+ days a week in office (San Carlos, CA)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make robots work for people.
Role
Who you are
- You are excited about seeing robots deployed at a large scale
- You are someone who is comfortable working in an early-stage startup environment and can pivot effectively
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
- 1-3 years of expertise in embedded software, proficient in C and C++
- Proficient experience with microcontrollers, preferably within the STM32 family
- Familiarity with communication protocols such as USB, I2C, SPI, UART, RS485, etc
- Proven track record in bare metal embedded systems
- Hands-on experience in firmware development, testing, and system-level bring-up
- Experience debugging embedded systems with tools such as scopes and logic analyzers
- Experience in conducting bench modifications and fast development of hardware/firmware prototypes
- Ability to collaborate and communicate complex technical concepts both verbally and with documentation
- Experience reading PCB schematics
Desirable
- Setting up and configuring CMake projects
- Previous experience working with robotic or mechatronic systems
- Writing and debugging tight control loops
- PCB bringup experience
What the job involves
- Robust AI is a fast-growing, early-stage startup founded in 2019 by an unsurpassed team of veterans in robotics, AI, and business
- We are a collaborative group with a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives, seeking talented individuals who are just as excited about robotics and AI as we are!
- Help us redefine the very foundation of robotics and build robots that are smart, collaborative, robust, safe, flexible, and genuinely autonomous
- As an embedded engineer at Robust AI, you will join a small fast-paced team working to design and deploy the next generation of warehouse robotic systems
- Working with the other engineers on the team you will help develop firmware for our robotic systems including actuation, sensors, and displays
- You will also help debug, iterate and test hardware on our current robot fleet
- You will help inform the design of our next-generation robot
- Design, development, debugging, integration, and maintenance of embedded system firmware for both new designs and existing products
- Collaborate with the team to formulate firmware architecture and design
- Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, and maintainable code, adhering to software engineering best practices
- Engage with cross-functional engineering team members to fulfill and enhance performance requirements while optimizing hardware/software interfaces
- Generate design documentation and lead design and code reviews
- Hands-on involvement in debugging robots
Our take
Increasing complexity in supply chains and demand has meant manufacturing and logistics are incorporating more robotics and automation. These systems, however, can be cumbersome, costly, and brittle, meaning it’s difficult for them to adapt to new demand. Robust’s solution is a platform enabling rapid, no-code setup of robotic transport systems in warehouses to help transport materials and tools.
The idea is that these robots work with, not instead of, human workforces - and it’s just the first slate of applications for Robust’s deeper tech. The aim is to develop an all-purpose cognitive engine that will produce robots that can make decisions in open-ended environments.
The potential applications for a common-sense cognitive platform are sweeping, even if Robust’s beginnings are fairly modest. It’s planning to build out its own datasets and pursue strategic alliances with companies across different verticals - it’s already in conversation with iRobot for application of its AI layer in homes, for example.
With the heavy-hitting founding team of robotics veterans at the helm, Robust is making painstaking and careful progress in what is growing to be a multi-billion-dollar global robotics industry. With impressive funding under its belt, it'll be interesting to see how its tech progresses.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2023
$20m
SERIES A
Oct 2020
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $42.5m
Company HQ
San Carlos, CA
Leadership
Anthony Jules
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked as Principal at robotics company Jules Studios, before serving as COO and VP of Product at Redwood Robotics, and then Head of Product & Program Management at X, the moonshot factory. Ultimately spent time as CTO/Advisor for Formant.
Rodney Brooks
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously co-founded Lucid, iRobot (sold to Uber), and Rethink Robotics, and for the latter two also served as CTO. Additionally spent nearly three decades as the Panasonic Professor of Robotics at MIT.
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