Sieve
Member of Technical Staff, Robotics
San Francisco · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years building robotic, mechatronic, or controls systems.
About the job
Build and deploy robotics hardware, capture rigs, and software that produce synchronized, quality-checked physical AI datasets at partner sites.
What you'll do
- Design, bring up, calibrate, and maintain robot capture systems, sensors, and teleoperation stations.
- Develop drivers, ROS/ROS2 integration, recording, logging, and capture-time QA; troubleshoot hardware and software failures in deployments.
- Create repeatable build and operating documentation, and establish hardware architecture and engineering standards for the physical AI team.
What they ask for
- 3+ years building robotic, mechatronic, or controls systems; background in robotics, EE, ME, or similar.
- Experience deploying systems beyond the lab and hands-on robot integration and troubleshooting across firmware, wiring, and application code.
- Production-quality Python and C++, fluency in Linux and ROS/ROS2, and practical electronics troubleshooting skills.
- Able to work in person at the San Francisco HQ; roles require onsite work five days per week.
Nice to have
- Controls, teleoperation or robot-policy data collection, or multi-camera calibration and sensor synchronization experience.
- CAD or PCB design experience; early-stage startup experience.
Tools
Python, C++, Rust, Linux, ROS/ROS2, CAN, serial, USB
AI focus
Produce physical AI training datasets, including data used to train robot policies.
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