Forward Deployed Robotics Engineer

The role

You will own end-to-end delivery of high-impact customer projects and define roadmaps for scientific challenges. You will translate scientific workflows into technical requirements and develop interfaces between robots, instruments, and software.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end delivery of high-impact customer projects
• Define the roadmap to meet customers' most critical scientific challenges
• Translate scientific workflows into technical requirements
• Support system architecture from conception to delivery
• Develop interfaces between robots, instruments, and software
• Design, build, and test scientific workflows on the Physical AI Scientist platform
• Make implementation tradeoffs with robotics and software engineers
• Integrate, test, and debug software solutions in simulation and on physical robots
• Work with forward deployed scientists through integration testing, water runs, customer-site bring-up, and scientific validation
• Diagnose failures across software, instrument behavior, robotics, and customer infrastructure

Required qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience shipping production code
• Demonstrated systems thinking: designing, implementing, testing, or debugging interfaces in a production system
• Experience delivering technical solutions with customers or users, from an ambiguous problem to a working solution in use
• A penchant for customer-facing engineering
• A track record of learning unfamiliar technologies quickly and making sound decisions with incomplete information
• Clear written and verbal communication
• Interest in developing depth in robotics, automation, and physical AI, with a willingness to work directly with physical systems

Nice to have

• Experience shipping a product that combines software and hardware
• Forward deployed engineering experience, or another engineering role with direct responsibility for customer implementations
• Production code in Python, C++, or Rust
• Experience designing APIs, distributed systems, or software that coordinates external services and equipment
• Experience designing integration tests, reliability tests, observability, or deployment tooling
• Experience with robotics, laboratory automation, or biology

Benefits

• 401k
• Medical insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Relocation benefits
• Unlimited PTO
• Weekday dinners

About the company

Medra is building a Physical AI Scientist platform featuring Physical AI that operates scientific instruments and Scientific AI that analyzes results. The team consists of engineers from companies like Tesla, Amazon, SpaceX, and Neuralink.