Lead Robotics Platform Engineer

AI-first robotics company building flexible robotic assembly factories for U.S. manufacturing and dual-use applications.

San Francisco, United States
About Foundry Robotics

Foundry Robotics operates AI-driven robotic cells for assembly, including defense and dual-use robotics, battery-pack assembly, and advanced hardware sub-assemblies.

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About the Role

You will own the robot-cell platform from firmware through application software and the hardware it runs on. You will define its roadmap and releases, develop platform capabilities hands-on, hire engineers, and support production robot fleets, provisioning, OTA updates, and device observability.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of industry experience owning the layer between BSP and autonomy for production robot fleets
  • Embedded Linux and BSP management
  • NVIDIA Jetson and x86 platform bring-up
  • Sensor integration and evaluation
  • GMSL2 and PoE cameras
  • Real-time Linux
  • ROS 2
  • DDS
  • Data transport architecture
  • Hardware qualification
  • Containerization
  • CI/CD
  • OTA and fleet management

Responsibilities

  • Own the cell-platform roadmap and releases
  • Develop the platform across firmware, application software, and electronic hardware
  • Build and operate production fleet infrastructure
  • Manage OTA updates, provisioning, and device observability
  • Hire and lead platform engineers
  • Support internal users of the platform

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Comprehensive health coverage
  • Dental coverage
  • Vision coverage
  • Generous PTO