Dexmate
Robotics Engineering Lead
$200K–$400K
Fremont Office · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jul 17, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years in robotics engineering; no alternative stated.
About the job
Leads the robotics engineering organization, developing robot firmware, controls, planning, and teleoperation while ensuring deployed robots are supported and improved through field feedback.
What you'll do
- Own the architecture and roadmap for robot firmware, control and planning systems, and teleoperation.
- Lead field support, hardware root-cause investigations, and engineering processes for training, validation, and releases.
- Hire and develop engineering teams and coordinate robot-side software development with platform, hardware, customers, and partners.
What they ask for
- 8+ years in robotics engineering, with foundations in dynamics, kinematics, control theory, and state estimation.
- Experience owning a shipped hardware product after launch, including field root-cause analysis and firmware releases.
- Deep embedded/real-time software experience and experience architecting firmware for safety-critical behavior.
- Hands-on production firmware/controls coding, plus experience in robot control/planning, teleoperation, cross-disciplinary hardware investigations, and technical support or training.
Nice to have
- Experience with humanoid robots or other complex multi-DOF robotic systems.
- Startup leadership experience or familiarity with Jetson-class edge compute, EtherCAT, or real-time Linux.
Pay
USD $200K – $400K (base salary or total pay not specified)
Tools
RTOS, PREEMPT_RT, Jetson-class edge compute, EtherCAT, real-time Linux
AI focus
Works at the interface between controls, perception, and higher-level planning/AI systems; teleoperation systems collect training data.
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