Team Lead - Robotics

Requirements

• What you will work on
• Lead the Physical AI team end to end: set the technical direction, make the build-vs-buy calls, and own the roadmap from first prototype to shipped product.
• Architect the full robot: how the mechanical systems, actuators, electronics, and software come together into one working machine.
• Build the intelligence of the robot. Train and deploy learned controllers and policies (RL, imitation learning), close the sim-to-real gap, and use modern AI models for perception and control.
• Stay hands-on. You will write code, train models, debug boards, and be at the bench when a leg cracks or a policy fails on real hardware.
• Hire and grow the founding team of engineers and interns, and set the bar for how the team builds.
• Own what you and your team build. When the robot fails mid-step, you fix it end to end.
• Who this is for
• You have 4-8 years of experience building real robots or physical products that actually worked.
• You combine robotics hardware depth with strong AI skills. You have trained policies or learned controllers that ran on real hardware, not just classical control or just simulation.
• You are an extremely hands-on self starter, comfortable being the first person on the team and setting things up from scratch.
• You have led engineers or projects before, formally or informally, and people want to work with you.
• You are okay with things failing often, because in hardware they do.
• We do not care much about GPA, publications, or where you interned. We care about what you have built and how you think about it.
• Must-have skills
• Robotics
• Good-to-have skills
• Mechanical Engineering, Electronics, Artificial Intelligence