Robotics Software Engineer, Bear Robotics

Autonomy

$150-184k

Python

Junior and Mid level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Redwood City, CA

Robotics for the hospitality industry

Be an early applicant

Robotics for the hospitality industry

201-500 employees

HospitalityB2BArtificial IntelligenceRoboticsMachine Learning

Be an early applicant

$150-184k

Python

Junior and Mid level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Redwood City, CA

201-500 employees

HospitalityB2BArtificial IntelligenceRoboticsMachine Learning

Company mission

To support all businesses by empowering efficient workflows, and revolutionize productivity with state-of-the-art robotics solutions.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Mobile robot navigation stack
Mobile robot dynamics modeling and control
Kalman/particle filtering, sensor fusion, nonlinear state estimation
Path planning (A*, D*, RRT, etc.)
Trajectory optimization
SLAM+Localization
Education/Experience:
BS/MS in CS or related field and 2+ years of mobile robot industry experiences, or
PhD in CS or related field
Solid data structures, algorithms, and software design

Desirable

Python data analysis
ROS navigation stack
2D/3D camera and lidar perception pipeline
Multi-robot control and coordination
ML/DL as applied to mobile robotics

What the job involves

In this role, you will be responsible for the robotics navigation stack, ranging from control, localization, mapping, path planning, all the way to high-level interaction decision making. The navigation stack is critical for our robot to drive autonomously, safely and smoothly.
You will be working with the team to design, prototype, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve various algorithms of the navigation stack. You are expected to be highly autonomous and to lead technical directions.
You are also expected to work with high-level product requirements, and to manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise
Work on our next generation navigation planner, integrating perception with path planning and navigation behavior
Quickly learn and adapt your skills to new projects
Own your projects from inception, to development, to deployment
Collaborate across teams to make your projects succeed
Performs other related duties as assigned

Our take

Many restaurants are struggling to keep up with service demands due to a lack of staff and rising costs. Traditional staffing methods are no longer enough to handle the fast pace and high expectations, creating a need for new, tech-driven solutions.

To solve this, Bear Robotics created AI-powered server robots called Servi. These robots move around the restaurant, delivering food and drinks to customers, reducing the workload on human staff. By handling routine tasks, they free up employees to focus on more important duties, improving services.

Servi robots have been successfully used in restaurants in the US, South Korea, and Japan, showing their growing importance in the industry. Bear Robotics has seen good funding which allowed it to improve its robotics technology and explore new uses beyond its current models. In 2025, LG acquired a majority stake in the company, effectively incorporating it as a subsidiary.

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Insights

0% employee growth in 12 months

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Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Jul 2022

$70m

SERIES C

Aug 2021

$30m

SERIES B

Total funding: $111.5m

Company benefits

Comprehensive Health Care Coverage
Internet and Phone Reimbursement
Remote Work Available
Free Lunch
Pet Friendly
Stock Options

Company HQ

Redwood Village, Redwood City, CA

Leadership

John Ha

(CEO & Co-founder)

Previously spent six years as a Technical Lead & Senior Software Engineer at Google. Former Adjunct Professor at KAIST(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), and former Intel Corporation Research Scientist.

Fangwei Li

(CTO & Co-founder)

Spent four years at Google as a Software Engineer and as a co-founder in in-house incubator Area 120. Before this, they worked at Microsoft, also as a Software Engineer.

Juan Higueros

(COO & Co-founder)

Former Director of Strategy and M&A at KPMG, and of Corporate Development at Polycom. They have also worked at Oracle as a Latin America Analyst, and at EY as Senior Manager of Operational Transaction Services.

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