Robotics Software Engineer

What We're Building:

We have been quietly building the foundational layers of our Physical AI Scientist platform:

🤖 Physical AI that can operate scientific instruments with human-level dexterity.

🧪 Scientific AI that can analyze results, reason about next steps, and close the loop autonomously.

This is an incredibly ambitious mission, but we believe that a team of ambitious people with high ownership can accomplish incredible things.

The Team:

We’re a team of passionate, mission-driven engineers from companies like Tesla, Amazon, SpaceX, and Neuralink. We’re collaborative and love moving fast, both with our product and on team trips skiing or go-karting!

As a team, we love nerding out about engineering and robotics — plus other topics like race cars or cooking. We like learning new things and then sharing our new knowledge with each other.

Our team is opinionated and straightforward. We don’t mind intense discussions about design tradeoffs. If we have arguments or miscommunication, we resolve conflicts quickly and empathetically.

In this role, you will:

Develop robotic solutions to manipulate and control biology tools designed for humans

Develop and implement motion planning algorithms to avoid collisions in a complex and dynamic environment

Use computer vision to work with consumables and equipment that humans use

Integrate, test, and debug software solutions in simulation and on physical robots

Work with partner scientists at customer labs to understand their pain points, ideate on creative solutions, decompose into individual projects, and guide implementation and deployment

Besides your focus on robustness and performance, you’ll be expected to identify opportunities for simplification, and to design for scalability

This position is 100% in-person, you must be able to come on-site to our San Francisco office. We do not offer hybrid roles at Medra. We do offer relocation benefits for applicants that need to relocate.

Let's talk if you have:

4+ years of experience designing and building algorithms for robotics systems

Experience or familiarity with robot arm manipulators

Proficient in Python

Relevant research/work experience in one or more of the following areas: motion planning and trajectory optimization, kinematics and dynamics, and control.

Experience with software engineering tools and best practices in production

A hacker’s mindset - getting quickly to a good-enough solution

A willingness to wear many hats / a flexible attitude towards responsibilities and scope

BS/MS/Ph.D. in Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent experience

Bonus points if you have:

Experience with robotic simulation systems such as PyBullet or MuJoCo

Experience with robotics in a laboratory or manufacturing environment

Understanding of software communication protocols (ZMQ, Redis, gRPC, etc…)

Contribution to software for a hardware product that shipped

Experience with robotics manipulation

What we offer:

401k

Medical insurance

Dental Insurance

Relocation benefits

Unlimited PTO

Weekday dinners