Robotics Engineer
Robotics Engineer at Lightberry — San Francisco, CA, US
- Company: Lightberry
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Employment type: FULL_TIME
- Salary: USD 150000–225000 / year
- Posted: 2026-07-17
About this role
Humanoid robots doing backflips are super cool, but to be useful they need to be able to listen, communicate, and operate in the world. Your role in our organization would be to help make that a reality by developing autonomy for humanoid robots and working to advise manufacturers on their next generation of hardware.
What you'll do
Work hands-on with robots that cost more than most cars
Iterate on software deployed to customer's robots in the real world
Advise humanoid robot manufacturers about sensor placement, hardware interfaces, and operational design
Work on camera-based 3D perception: detection, tracking, gesture and body language understanding, and speaker identification
Improve locomotion for walking safely in public environments
Team up with animators to make the robot's movement, body language, and gestures more fluid and natural
What we’re looking for
Robotics experience (self-driving cars, drones, humanoids, off-road robotics, or similar)
Experience shipping products into the real world
Strong C++ or Rust experience
Comfortable working with and debugging hardware
Excited to take high ownership of product features
Technology
We deploy on humanoid robots, for example Unitree G1s upfit with custom hardware.
Our onboard code is written in C++20 and our offboard code is primarily Python 3.14.