Physical Intelligence
Software Engineer, Robot Interfaces
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
About the job
Build internal software and human-robot interfaces that help research and operations teams run, monitor, and debug robots across physical sites.
What you'll do
- Own interfaces for robot setup, calibration, live operation, monitoring, and review, with a focus on safety and usability.
- Build real-time device and cloud systems, and ship and monitor software across lab, warehouse, and partner sites.
- Gather user needs, prioritize work, define success metrics, and measure and improve operational workflows.
What they ask for
- Strong fullstack experience building production web applications and APIs, especially with React, TypeScript, and Python.
- Realtime web experience, including WebRTC, WebSockets, streaming video, and state synchronization.
- Comfort with binary wire formats and schema-defined interfaces such as protobuf or gRPC.
- Experience deploying software on-prem or on-device, including degraded-network operation and fleet versioning.
Nice to have
- Experience with teleoperation, robotics, or robot-adjacent software.
- Experience with safety-critical or industrial systems, hardware-adjacent software, or physical-world workflow systems.
Tools
React, TypeScript, Python, WebRTC, WebSockets, protobuf, gRPC, Postgres
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