Foundry Robotics
Lead Robotics Platform Engineer
$150K–$250K
Emeryville, CA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jul 30, 2026
- Experience
- Several years of production-fleet ownership; typically 8+ years of industry experience at AV, humanoid, AMR, or drone companies.
About the job
Leads the Cell Platform team, owning the hardware and software foundation for robot cells, its roadmap and releases, and hiring while contributing hands-on.
What you'll do
- Own the platform product, including roadmap, releases, and relationships with internal teams that depend on it.
- Build and maintain production robot-fleet infrastructure spanning hardware, embedded software, middleware, transport, provisioning, and fleet management.
- Hire and lead the Cell Platform team while remaining hands-on.
What they ask for
- Several years owning platforms on production robot fleets deployed for real customers; this is stated as a hard requirement.
- Embedded Linux/BSP expertise, including kernel, drivers, device trees, boot, and platform bring-up on NVIDIA Jetson and x86 targets.
- Experience integrating and evaluating sensors, with emphasis on GMSL2 and PoE cameras.
- Fluency in real-time Linux, ROS 2 and DDS/RMW internals, data transport, containerization, release engineering, and fleet/device management.
Pay
$150,000—$250,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Embedded Linux, BSP, NVIDIA Jetson, GMSL2, PoE, ROS 2, DDS/RMW, CI/CD
AI focus
The company builds AI-driven manufacturing systems; this role owns the robot-cell platform supporting them. No specific AI development duties are stated.
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