Staff AI Inference and Acceleration Engineer

About the job

Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots. The goal of the company is to ship humanoid robots with human level intelligence. Its robots are engineered to perform a variety of tasks in the home and commercial markets. Figure is headquartered in San Jose, CA. We are looking for a Staff AI Inference & Acceleration Engineer to join the Platform Software team and own the on-board inference architecture for Figure’s humanoid robots. You will be the technical authority on how AI workloads are mapped, optimized, and executed across the robot’s compute hardware — driving down power consumption and cost while meeting the strict latency and reliability…