Staff Engineer, Dexterity
Infrastructure
$200-250k
Office located in Redwood City, CA
Physical AI-powered industrial superhumanoids for large enterprises
Be an early applicant
Physical AI-powered industrial superhumanoids for large enterprises
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-250k
Office located in Redwood City, CA
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help people thrive and grow by freeing them to do work that humans do best, by transforming the world to make work more purposeful.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production infrastructure or systems at scale, with demonstrated technical leadership and ownership
- Strong Linux/Ubuntu systems administration experience
- Strong programming skills in Python with solid Bash/shell scripting knowledge
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or equivalent technologies
- Hands-on experience with bare-metal infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes deployment, operations, and lifecycle management
- Experience with cloud infrastructure platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, including API-driven provisioning
- Strong networking fundamentals, including VLANs, DHCP, DNS, routing, bonding, and related networking concepts
- Experience with CI/CD and Git-driven infrastructure/configuration-management practices
- Experience developing or integrating systems using REST APIs and automation workflows
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability platforms
- Strong understanding of secure, idempotent, and reproducible infrastructure automation, with the ability to rebuild systems from code rather than relying on manual configuration
- The original request requires 10+ years of systems engineering at scale along with strong systems/network architecture and information-security knowledge
- Experience supporting infrastructure deployed across production or customer environments
Desirable
- Experience with bare-metal provisioning technologies such as PXE boot, DHCP, TFTP, and cloud-init
- Familiarity with server-management interfaces and protocols such as IPMI, Redfish, iDRAC, or iLO
- Experience with HPC, GPU, accelerated compute, or other large-scale compute environments
- Experience with Salt or similar configuration-management technologies
- Experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, and centralized logging systems
- Familiarity with ISO 27001, SOC 2, or similar security and compliance frameworks
- Experience building hybrid cloud or cloud-burst infrastructure
- These preferred skills preserve the more specialized technologies identified in the original request without requiring candidates to have worked with Dexterity's exact toolset
What the job involves
- As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer at Dexterity, you will design, build, and automate the infrastructure that powers Dexterity's development and production robotics systems
- You'll own critical areas of our bare-metal and hybrid cloud infrastructure, including provisioning, compute, networking, Kubernetes, observability, security, and lifecycle management
- You'll work across Infrastructure, Software, Robotics, and other engineering teams to build secure, scalable, highly available systems while eliminating manual operational work through automation
- This is a hands-on Staff-level role for an engineer who can set technical direction, solve complex infrastructure problems, and build systems that scale as Dexterity grows
- Design and implement end-to-end automation for provisioning and lifecycle management of bare-metal HPC infrastructure
- Automate commissioning, OS installation, reprovisioning, and decommissioning using Dexterity's bare-metal provisioning systems
- Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using technologies such as Terraform, Salt, Python, and Git-based workflows
- Automate configuration and deployment of Linux/Ubuntu compute nodes, Kubernetes clusters, networking, storage, monitoring, logging, and authentication services
- Develop APIs, scripts, controllers, and automation workflows that eliminate manual steps in server provisioning and configuration
- Integrate physical infrastructure provisioning with fleet management and other internal infrastructure services
- Automate cloud infrastructure provisioning for hybrid HPC and cloud-burst use cases
- Implement GitOps and CI/CD practices for infrastructure changes, including testing, review, rollout, and rollback
- Build automated hardware validation, health-checking, and diagnostic workflows
- Develop observability for provisioning status, failures, configuration drift, capacity, and overall infrastructure health
- Design and maintain secure, scalable, reliable, and highly available compute and network systems that support business objectives and service-level requirements
- Help establish and improve infrastructure security, reliability, compliance, and operational practices
- Help define the long-term architecture and technical direction for Dexterity's compute and infrastructure platforms
- Lead complex infrastructure initiatives from architecture and design through production deployment
- Establish engineering standards and best practices for infrastructure automation, reliability, security, and operational excellence
- Partner cross-functionally to research and design the next generation of compute and acceleration infrastructure for Dexterity
- Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing
Our take
Dexterity emerged from stealth at an opportune, albeit tough, time in 2020, just as an accelerating labour crunch drove major demand for automated solutions in factories and warehouses. The company managed a major fundraise and immediately moved on to bigger and better things: expanding into the Japanese market, partnering with supply chain automation leader Dematic and achieving unicorn status with a greater than $1 billion valuation.
Unlike other companies which are fixated on developing increasingly sophisticated, more human-like robots, Dexterity takes a comparatively simple hardware approach. Its machines take care of highly repetitive tasks, while its SaaS platform shares everything it learns with each robot, amplifying intelligence across the fleet. Rather than seeking to replace human workforces it aims to augment them, freeing skilled workers for more complex tasks.
Considering that the worldwide labour shortage is heavily impacting the industrial sector, Dexterity is in a promising position to continue its upward trajectory over the next few years. Indeed, its recent partnerships with Sumitomo to supply 1,500 Dexterity robots in their warehouses and with FedEx for autonomous trailer loading are encouraging signs of things to come for the company.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2025
$95m
LATE VC
Oct 2021
$140m
SERIES B
Total funding: $291.2m
Company HQ
Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Samir Menon
(Founder & CEO)Samir holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from Stanford University. He was previously a Software Design Engineer at Microsoft India R&D before Founding Dexterity in 2017.
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