{"jobs":[{"id":"665176a1-58c3-4103-8052-0426df82da73","title":"Research + Modeling","department":"Software Engineering","team":"Software Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-01-26T17:51:03.292+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/665176a1-58c3-4103-8052-0426df82da73","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/665176a1-58c3-4103-8052-0426df82da73/application","descriptionHtml":"<h3><strong>About Mind:</strong></h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3><strong>About the team and the role:</strong></h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">At Mind Robotics, we’re building <strong>generalized physical AI</strong>—robotic systems capable of dexterous, adaptive, and reasoning-intensive work in real-world industrial environments. Our models sit at the core of this effort, bridging cutting-edge foundation model techniques with real-world robotic execution.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">We’re looking for a <strong>Research &amp; Modeling Engineer</strong> to build and train the core models that power our systems, and ensure they perform reliably on real robots in production environments.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3>Responsibilities:</h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Design and run large-scale training pipelines for multimodal / VLA systems.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Own the full loop: data → training → evaluation → deployment on real robots.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Develop scalable infrastructure for data ingestion, training, and iteration.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Translate model outputs into reliable, high-performance robotic actions.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Work hands-on with robots to debug, iterate, and improve behavior.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Define data strategy (quality, scale, diversity) and evaluation frameworks.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Continuously improve performance across real-world tasks and environments.</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3><strong>Requirements:</strong></h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Built and trained large-scale models (LLMs, VLMs, or robotics foundation models).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Deep understanding of modern ML, training dynamics, and optimization at scale.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with distributed systems and data pipelines for large-scale training.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Comfortable operating end-to-end: from data → model → real-world deployment (including robots).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Domain strength in at least one: robotics, VLA systems, or training LLMs/VLMs from scratch.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong Python proficiency.</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3>Nice to Have:</h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with dexterous manipulation or complex robotic tasks.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience deploying models in real-world, production environments.</p></li></ul>","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MIND:\n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE TEAM AND THE ROLE:\n\nAt Mind Robotics, we’re building generalized physical AI—robotic systems capable of dexterous, adaptive, and reasoning-intensive work in real-world industrial environments. Our models sit at the core of this effort, bridging cutting-edge foundation model techniques with real-world robotic execution.\n\nWe’re looking for a Research & Modeling Engineer to build and train the core models that power our systems, and ensure they perform reliably on real robots in production environments.\n\n\n\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES:\n\n - Design and run large-scale training pipelines for multimodal / VLA systems.\n\n - Own the full loop: data → training → evaluation → deployment on real robots.\n\n - Develop scalable infrastructure for data ingestion, training, and iteration.\n\n - Translate model outputs into reliable, high-performance robotic actions.\n\n - Work hands-on with robots to debug, iterate, and improve behavior.\n\n - Define data strategy (quality, scale, diversity) and evaluation frameworks.\n\n - Continuously improve performance across real-world tasks and environments.\n\n\n\n\nREQUIREMENTS:\n\n - Built and trained large-scale models (LLMs, VLMs, or robotics foundation models).\n\n - Deep understanding of modern ML, training dynamics, and optimization at scale.\n\n - Experience with distributed systems and data pipelines for large-scale training.\n\n - Comfortable operating end-to-end: from data → model → real-world deployment (including robots).\n\n - Domain strength in at least one: robotics, VLA systems, or training LLMs/VLMs from scratch.\n\n - Strong Python proficiency.\n\n\n\n\nNICE TO HAVE:\n\n - Experience with dexterous manipulation or complex robotic tasks.\n\n - Experience deploying models in real-world, production environments.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"bdba9018-fc6a-4bd9-92b5-73f56771c46b","title":"Research Engineer","department":"Software Engineering","team":"Software Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-01-26T17:50:44.261+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/bdba9018-fc6a-4bd9-92b5-73f56771c46b","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/bdba9018-fc6a-4bd9-92b5-73f56771c46b/application","descriptionHtml":"<h3><strong>About Mind:</strong></h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3><strong>About the team and the role:</strong></h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">At Mind Robotics, we’re building <strong>generalized physical AI</strong>—robotic systems capable of dexterous, adaptive, and reasoning-intensive work in real-world industrial environments. Our ability to iterate quickly on large-scale models depends on world-class ML infrastructure.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">We’re looking for a <strong>Research Engineer</strong> to build the core systems that enable fast, reliable, and scalable model training—powering everything from experimentation to production deployment.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3>Responsibilities:</h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Design and implement scalable systems for training large ML models.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Enable efficient workflows for data ingestion, training, and iteration.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Develop and optimize distributed training systems across hundreds of GPUs.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Implement strategies for parallelization, sharding, and efficient compute utilization.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Improve training efficiency through techniques such as attention optimizations, kernel fusion, and memory management.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Partner closely with modeling teams to accelerate iteration speed and reduce training costs.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build internal tools for experiment tracking, monitoring, and debugging.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Implement systems for tracking training performance, failures, and resource utilization.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Debug and resolve bottlenecks across the training stack.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Provide lightweight infrastructure support for deploying and running models in production environments.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Optimize inference performance and reliability where needed.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Support core cloud infrastructure needs for training workloads (without heavy DevOps overhead).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Manage compute resources efficiently across training jobs.</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3><strong>Requirements:</strong></h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong experience building infrastructure for large-scale ML training.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Deep understanding of how modern LLM/VLM systems are trained and scaled.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Proven experience setting up and scaling distributed training across hundreds of GPUs.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong understanding of parallelization strategies (data, model, pipeline parallelism).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong proficiency in Python programming.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Expert-level proficiency in PyTorch and/or JAX.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong understanding of techniques like attention optimization, kernel fusion, and efficient memory usage.</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3>Nice to Have:</h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience supporting inference systems in production.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Familiarity with robotics or embodied AI workloads.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience building tools for experiment management and researcher productivity.</p></li></ul>","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MIND:\n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE TEAM AND THE ROLE:\n\nAt Mind Robotics, we’re building generalized physical AI—robotic systems capable of dexterous, adaptive, and reasoning-intensive work in real-world industrial environments. Our ability to iterate quickly on large-scale models depends on world-class ML infrastructure.\n\nWe’re looking for a Research Engineer to build the core systems that enable fast, reliable, and scalable model training—powering everything from experimentation to production deployment.\n\n\n\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES:\n\n - Design and implement scalable systems for training large ML models.\n\n - Enable efficient workflows for data ingestion, training, and iteration.\n\n - Develop and optimize distributed training systems across hundreds of GPUs.\n\n - Implement strategies for parallelization, sharding, and efficient compute utilization.\n\n - Improve training efficiency through techniques such as attention optimizations, kernel fusion, and memory management.\n\n - Partner closely with modeling teams to accelerate iteration speed and reduce training costs.\n\n - Build internal tools for experiment tracking, monitoring, and debugging.\n\n - Implement systems for tracking training performance, failures, and resource utilization.\n\n - Debug and resolve bottlenecks across the training stack.\n\n - Provide lightweight infrastructure support for deploying and running models in production environments.\n\n - Optimize inference performance and reliability where needed.\n\n - Support core cloud infrastructure needs for training workloads (without heavy DevOps overhead).\n\n - Manage compute resources efficiently across training jobs.\n\n\n\n\nREQUIREMENTS:\n\n - Strong experience building infrastructure for large-scale ML training.\n\n - Deep understanding of how modern LLM/VLM systems are trained and scaled.\n\n - Proven experience setting up and scaling distributed training across hundreds of GPUs.\n\n - Strong understanding of parallelization strategies (data, model, pipeline parallelism).\n\n - Strong proficiency in Python programming.\n\n - Expert-level proficiency in PyTorch and/or JAX.\n\n - Strong understanding of techniques like attention optimization, kernel fusion, and efficient memory usage.\n\n\n\n\nNICE TO HAVE:\n\n - Experience supporting inference systems in production.\n\n - Familiarity with robotics or embodied AI workloads.\n\n - Experience building tools for experiment management and researcher productivity.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"105d9f55-9914-49a3-a622-1565dcde5f01","title":"Data Infrastructure Engineer","department":"Software Engineering","team":"Software Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-01-26T17:50:18.116+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/105d9f55-9914-49a3-a622-1565dcde5f01","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/105d9f55-9914-49a3-a622-1565dcde5f01/application","descriptionHtml":"<h3><strong>About Mind:</strong></h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. 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That starts with a data engine: the pipelines and infrastructure that turn raw, messy, multimodal sensor streams from robots and human demonstrations into high-quality, well-curated training data at scale.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">As a Data Infrastructure Engineer, you'll build and operate the pipelines that turn raw sensor and demonstration data into training-ready datasets — from ingestion off real robots and capture devices, through processing and quality filtering, to the dataloaders that feed model training. The systems work today; your job is to build within the architecture, take ownership of specific pipelines and services, and help harden the system as it scales.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build and scale ingestion pipelines for high-volume, high-dimensional sensor data.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build and maintain data quality and curation systems, including both manual review workflows and auto-labeling.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Contribute to storage and retrieval design for large-scale multimodal datasets, including format choices and versioning/lineage.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build and operate distributed processing infrastructure (batch and streaming).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Debug production issues in live data pipelines — data corruption, schema drift, backpressure, and failures that only show up at scale.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Work with modeling/research partners to understand data quality, format, and structure needs, and translate them into working pipelines.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Participate in design and code review across the data infrastructure stack.</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3><strong>Requirements:</strong></h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">2+ years of software engineering experience, with some exposure to data pipelines, data engineering, or backend systems.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong programming fundamentals in Python, with the ability to write performant, production-grade data processing code.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with at least one distributed data processing framework (e.g., Spark, Ray, Dask, or Flink), or strong fundamentals and willingness to ramp up quickly.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Familiarity with data storage concepts — object storage, data lake table formats, and warehouse vs. lake tradeoffs.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Bias for ownership: you've taken features or systems from prototype to production.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Clear communicator who collaborates well with research/modeling partners and more senior teammates.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Dagster, Prefect) is a plus.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with streaming ingestion for high-volume, near-real-time data is a plus.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience building automated data quality/curation systems (statistical filtering, anomaly detection, deduplication, or using ML models in an annotation/filtering pipeline) is a plus.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with robotics- or embodied-AI-specific data (multi-embodiment datasets, teleoperation/demonstration data, egocentric video) is a plus.</p></li></ul>","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MIND:\n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE TEAM AND THE ROLE:\n\nMind Robotics is building robots that learn from real-world experience. That starts with a data engine: the pipelines and infrastructure that turn raw, messy, multimodal sensor streams from robots and human demonstrations into high-quality, well-curated training data at scale.\n\nAs a Data Infrastructure Engineer, you'll build and operate the pipelines that turn raw sensor and demonstration data into training-ready datasets — from ingestion off real robots and capture devices, through processing and quality filtering, to the dataloaders that feed model training. The systems work today; your job is to build within the architecture, take ownership of specific pipelines and services, and help harden the system as it scales.\n\n\n\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES:\n\n - Build and scale ingestion pipelines for high-volume, high-dimensional sensor data.\n\n - Build and maintain data quality and curation systems, including both manual review workflows and auto-labeling.\n\n - Contribute to storage and retrieval design for large-scale multimodal datasets, including format choices and versioning/lineage.\n\n - Build and operate distributed processing infrastructure (batch and streaming).\n\n - Debug production issues in live data pipelines — data corruption, schema drift, backpressure, and failures that only show up at scale.\n\n - Work with modeling/research partners to understand data quality, format, and structure needs, and translate them into working pipelines.\n\n - Participate in design and code review across the data infrastructure stack.\n\n\n\n\nREQUIREMENTS:\n\n - 2+ years of software engineering experience, with some exposure to data pipelines, data engineering, or backend systems.\n\n - Strong programming fundamentals in Python, with the ability to write performant, production-grade data processing code.\n\n - Experience with at least one distributed data processing framework (e.g., Spark, Ray, Dask, or Flink), or strong fundamentals and willingness to ramp up quickly.\n\n - Familiarity with data storage concepts — object storage, data lake table formats, and warehouse vs. lake tradeoffs.\n\n - Bias for ownership: you've taken features or systems from prototype to production.\n\n - Clear communicator who collaborates well with research/modeling partners and more senior teammates.\n\n - Experience with workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Dagster, Prefect) is a plus.\n\n - Experience with streaming ingestion for high-volume, near-real-time data is a plus.\n\n - Experience building automated data quality/curation systems (statistical filtering, anomaly detection, deduplication, or using ML models in an annotation/filtering pipeline) is a plus.\n\n - Experience with robotics- or embodied-AI-specific data (multi-embodiment datasets, teleoperation/demonstration data, egocentric video) is a plus.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"d25b0136-b05a-4c2b-91ea-5aa9fb6fc095","title":"Robotics Software Engineer","department":"Software Engineering","team":"Software Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-01-26T17:51:16.080+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/d25b0136-b05a-4c2b-91ea-5aa9fb6fc095","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/d25b0136-b05a-4c2b-91ea-5aa9fb6fc095/application","descriptionHtml":"<h3><strong>About Mind:</strong></h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. 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Delivering this in production requires robust, high-performance robotics software that can reliably operate in complex, real-world settings.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">We’re looking for a <strong>Robotics Software Engineer</strong> to build the runtime systems, middleware, and developer infrastructure that power our robotic platforms—from low-level execution to operator-facing tools.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3>Responsibilities:</h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Design, develop, and maintain runtime systems that enable reliable, low-latency operation of robotic platforms.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Ensure robustness of robotics systems across real-world deployment scenarios.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Implement and optimize robotics middleware for inter-process communication, data serialization, and message passing.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Integrate with frameworks like DDS, Zenoh, or build custom solutions as needed.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build systems for task scheduling, resource management, and lifecycle management of robotic applications.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Enable scalable and modular execution of complex robotic behaviors.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Ensure that robotics systems meet strict latency and reliability requirements.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Optimize for resource-constrained and embedded environments.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Develop tools to monitor system health, debug failures, and analyze performance.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Design and maintain deployment workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization (e.g., Docker).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build abstractions, APIs, and tools that enable application engineers to develop robotic behaviors efficiently.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Contribute to operator-facing tools (e.g., UI for monitoring, control, and data annotation workflows).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Focus on developer experience and system ergonomics, ensuring that the platform scales across robots, tasks, and environments.</p></li></ul><h3></h3><h3><strong>Requirements:</strong></h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong experience building robotics software systems and middleware.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience designing and building runtime systems, execution frameworks, or middleware layers.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong understanding of distributed systems and communication patterns in robotics.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience working with real-time constraints and performance-critical systems.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong proficiency in Python programming.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Familiarity with robotics middleware frameworks (e.g., DDS, Zenoh, ROS2).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with containerization, CI/CD, and codebase management at scale.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Ability to design clean abstractions and APIs for internal users.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience building tools or interfaces for operators or engineers.</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3>Nice to Have:</h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Background in building operator tools or robotics UIs.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience supporting ML-driven robotic systems.</p></li></ul>","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MIND:\n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE TEAM AND THE ROLE:\n\nAt Mind Robotics, we’re building generalized physical AI—robotic systems capable of dexterous, adaptive, and reasoning-intensive work in real-world industrial environments. Delivering this in production requires robust, high-performance robotics software that can reliably operate in complex, real-world settings.\n\nWe’re looking for a Robotics Software Engineer to build the runtime systems, middleware, and developer infrastructure that power our robotic platforms—from low-level execution to operator-facing tools.\n\n\n\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES:\n\n - Design, develop, and maintain runtime systems that enable reliable, low-latency operation of robotic platforms.\n\n - Ensure robustness of robotics systems across real-world deployment scenarios.\n\n - Implement and optimize robotics middleware for inter-process communication, data serialization, and message passing.\n\n - Integrate with frameworks like DDS, Zenoh, or build custom solutions as needed.\n\n - Build systems for task scheduling, resource management, and lifecycle management of robotic applications.\n\n - Enable scalable and modular execution of complex robotic behaviors.\n\n - Ensure that robotics systems meet strict latency and reliability requirements.\n\n - Optimize for resource-constrained and embedded environments.\n\n - Develop tools to monitor system health, debug failures, and analyze performance.\n\n - Design and maintain deployment workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization (e.g., Docker).\n\n - Build abstractions, APIs, and tools that enable application engineers to develop robotic behaviors efficiently.\n\n - Contribute to operator-facing tools (e.g., UI for monitoring, control, and data annotation workflows).\n\n - Focus on developer experience and system ergonomics, ensuring that the platform scales across robots, tasks, and environments.\n\n\n\n\n\nREQUIREMENTS:\n\n - Strong experience building robotics software systems and middleware.\n\n - Experience designing and building runtime systems, execution frameworks, or middleware layers.\n\n - Strong understanding of distributed systems and communication patterns in robotics.\n\n - Experience working with real-time constraints and performance-critical systems.\n\n - Strong proficiency in Python programming.\n\n - Familiarity with robotics middleware frameworks (e.g., DDS, Zenoh, ROS2).\n\n - Experience with containerization, CI/CD, and codebase management at scale.\n\n - Ability to design clean abstractions and APIs for internal users.\n\n - Experience building tools or interfaces for operators or engineers.\n\n\n\n\nNICE TO HAVE:\n\n - Background in building operator tools or robotics UIs.\n\n - Experience supporting ML-driven robotic systems.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"d004d274-a9d9-4242-b141-9eaf85c7a397","title":"Technical Program Manager, Software","department":"Operations","team":"Operations","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-09-21T17:18:50.685+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/d004d274-a9d9-4242-b141-9eaf85c7a397","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/d004d274-a9d9-4242-b141-9eaf85c7a397/application","descriptionHtml":"<h3><strong>About Mind:</strong></h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. 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As a Software Program Manager you will own the integrated program plan across all of software and build the practice itself: how teams define their own milestones and commit to org-level ones, how we know week over week whether we are on or off track, and how problems surface early enough that we can still do something about them. You will partner directly with hardware program management so that software and hardware roll up into one program picture rather than two competing ones.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>End-to-End Ownership:</strong> Own the software program plan end to end — from roadmap planning through implementation, integration, validation, and release to the fleet — and own the functional outcome, not just the schedule.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Program Practice Design:</strong> Establish how software program management works at Mind: the planning rhythm that connects team-level work to org-level milestones, what qualifies as a milestone, what \"done\" means at each one, and the artifacts that support both the individual engineer and leadership in prioritization and decision making.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Milestone Planning:</strong> Build software plans that align with org-level milestones, including clear definitions of what “done” means at each step.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Metric Tracking:</strong> Monitor and report on key program metrics, and communicate status, blockers, and risks to leadership.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Progress Tracking &amp; Status Integrity:</strong> Build the tracking layer that answers whether we are on or off track, drawn from the systems teams already work in.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Risk Mitigation:</strong> Identify and escalate technical, dependency, and resourcing risks early, and and drive them to resolution.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Technical / Business Judgment:</strong> Engage directly in architecture and design discussions at a depth sufficient to stress-test engineering estimates and pressure-test readiness. Drive decisions at that level with understanding of the impacts to our business goals.</p></li></ul><h3><strong>Requirements:</strong></h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Educational Background:</strong> Bachelor's degree in engineering (software / computer science preferred), or equivalent experience.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Industry Experience:</strong> 5+ years of experience in technical program management for software products, ideally in robotics, autonomous systems, or another domain where software ships against hardware and real-world deployment constraints.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Proven Track Record:</strong> Demonstrated success taking software from early development through release and sustained operation.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Technical Depth:</strong> Strong software fundamentals with the ability to engage meaningfully in architecture, planning, and systems integration discussions.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>System Complexity:</strong> Experience managing programs spanning multiple interdependent software domains along with their dependencies on hardware revisions and the availability of test hardware.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Execution &amp; Ownership:</strong> High sense of urgency, comfortable with ambiguity, and driven by an \"engineering curiosity\" to understand how the entire system works.</p></li></ul>","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MIND:\n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.\n\n \n \n\n\nABOUT THE TEAM AND THE ROLE:\n\nProgram Management at Mind is an operational catalyst. We own outcomes, drive the trade-offs that keep engineering moving, and set the metabolic rate of the teams we partner with — clearing roadblocks, closing stalled decisions, carrying risk upward, and protecting the focus engineers need to build. As a Software Program Manager you will own the integrated program plan across all of software and build the practice itself: how teams define their own milestones and commit to org-level ones, how we know week over week whether we are on or off track, and how problems surface early enough that we can still do something about them. You will partner directly with hardware program management so that software and hardware roll up into one program picture rather than two competing ones.\n\nResponsibilities:\n\n - End-to-End Ownership: Own the software program plan end to end — from roadmap planning through implementation, integration, validation, and release to the fleet — and own the functional outcome, not just the schedule.\n\n - Program Practice Design: Establish how software program management works at Mind: the planning rhythm that connects team-level work to org-level milestones, what qualifies as a milestone, what \"done\" means at each one, and the artifacts that support both the individual engineer and leadership in prioritization and decision making.\n\n - Milestone Planning: Build software plans that align with org-level milestones, including clear definitions of what “done” means at each step.\n\n - Metric Tracking: Monitor and report on key program metrics, and communicate status, blockers, and risks to leadership.\n\n - Progress Tracking & Status Integrity: Build the tracking layer that answers whether we are on or off track, drawn from the systems teams already work in.\n\n - Risk Mitigation: Identify and escalate technical, dependency, and resourcing risks early, and and drive them to resolution.\n\n - Technical / Business Judgment: Engage directly in architecture and design discussions at a depth sufficient to stress-test engineering estimates and pressure-test readiness. Drive decisions at that level with understanding of the impacts to our business goals.\n\n\nREQUIREMENTS:\n\n - Educational Background: Bachelor's degree in engineering (software / computer science preferred), or equivalent experience.\n\n - Industry Experience: 5+ years of experience in technical program management for software products, ideally in robotics, autonomous systems, or another domain where software ships against hardware and real-world deployment constraints.\n\n - Proven Track Record: Demonstrated success taking software from early development through release and sustained operation.\n\n - Technical Depth: Strong software fundamentals with the ability to engage meaningfully in architecture, planning, and systems integration discussions.\n\n - System Complexity: Experience managing programs spanning multiple interdependent software domains along with their dependencies on hardware revisions and the availability of test hardware.\n\n - Execution & Ownership: High sense of urgency, comfortable with ambiguity, and driven by an \"engineering curiosity\" to understand how the entire system works.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"eb6661bd-13ba-4d91-aea7-7920f9bc0cfd","title":"Mechanical Design Engineer","department":"Hardware Engineering","team":"Hardware Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-04-06T17:33:32.912+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/eb6661bd-13ba-4d91-aea7-7920f9bc0cfd","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/eb6661bd-13ba-4d91-aea7-7920f9bc0cfd/application","descriptionHtml":"<h3><strong>About Mind</strong></h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3>About the Role</h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><br />As a Mechanical Design Engineer, you will lead the end-to-end design and development of complex electromechanical hardware and robotic systems. Working in a fast-paced environment, you will rapidly build, test, and iterate on prototypes using 3D printing, CNC machining, and hands-on fabrication. You’ll leverage your deep mechanical intuition to perform core structural, thermal, and tolerance analyses while ensuring designs scale seamlessly through rigorous DFM/DFA practices. Collaborating closely with cross-functional software and electrical teams, machine shops, and contract manufacturers, you will turn ambiguous technical challenges into reliable, high-volume production hardware.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3>Responsibilities</h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Design and development of mechanical components and assemblies for data collection hardware and robotic devices.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Rapidly build, test, and break prototypes. You’ll use 3D printing, CNC machining, and manual fabrication to validate designs.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Contribute to DFM/DFA efforts to ensure designs can scale from low-volume prototypes to high-volume production.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Source components and work closely with machine shops and CMs to ensure parts are manufactured and shipped to spec and on time.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Perform basic analyses (tolerance, structural, thermal) to validate design decisions</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Develop specifications and accelerated test plans to validate the product for its lifetime</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Assist in documentation for design reviews and testing.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Collaborate with cross-functional teams (electrical, software, industrial design) to consolidate design requirements and integrate mechanical systems.</p></li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Exceptional Mechanical Intuition. You understand how forces, materials, and mechanisms behave instinctively.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">5+ years of experience (or equivalent \"hard tech\" projects) building complex electromechanical systems and sensors</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Familiarity with rapid prototyping techniques such as 3D Printing, Machining, etc.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">High proficiency in SolidWorks, Catia or similar tools</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Hands-on problem-solving approach with ability to iterate quickly</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience designing for volume processes (Injection molding, CNC, etc.) and working with contract manufacturers.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">You are comfortable with ambiguity, move fast, and have an \"engineering curiosity\" that drives you to understand how the entire system works, not just your part.</p></li></ul>","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MIND\n\n\n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\n\nAs a Mechanical Design Engineer, you will lead the end-to-end design and development of complex electromechanical hardware and robotic systems. Working in a fast-paced environment, you will rapidly build, test, and iterate on prototypes using 3D printing, CNC machining, and hands-on fabrication. You’ll leverage your deep mechanical intuition to perform core structural, thermal, and tolerance analyses while ensuring designs scale seamlessly through rigorous DFM/DFA practices. Collaborating closely with cross-functional software and electrical teams, machine shops, and contract manufacturers, you will turn ambiguous technical challenges into reliable, high-volume production hardware.\n\n\n\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Design and development of mechanical components and assemblies for data collection hardware and robotic devices.\n\n - Rapidly build, test, and break prototypes. You’ll use 3D printing, CNC machining, and manual fabrication to validate designs.\n\n - Contribute to DFM/DFA efforts to ensure designs can scale from low-volume prototypes to high-volume production.\n\n - Source components and work closely with machine shops and CMs to ensure parts are manufactured and shipped to spec and on time.\n\n - Perform basic analyses (tolerance, structural, thermal) to validate design decisions\n\n - Develop specifications and accelerated test plans to validate the product for its lifetime\n\n - Assist in documentation for design reviews and testing.\n\n - Collaborate with cross-functional teams (electrical, software, industrial design) to consolidate design requirements and integrate mechanical systems.\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n - Exceptional Mechanical Intuition. 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In this role, you will own the full design lifecycle—architecting boards, debugging prototypes in the lab, and working directly with manufacturers to bring high-reliability robots to market at scale.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3>Responsibilities</h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Design and develop complex electrical systems, including power distribution, sensor integration, and motor drive systems.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Execute full-cycle PCB development—schematic capture, component selection, multi-layer layout, and manufacturing file generation (Altium, KiCad, or OrCAD).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Assemble, test, and debug initial prototypes.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Work closely with firmware and mechanical engineers to define connectors, pinouts, and physical constraints.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Develop specifications and accelerated test plans to validate the product for its lifetime.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Interface with PCB fabricators and component suppliers to ensure timely delivery and DFM.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p></li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Technical degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">5+ years of experience (or equivalent \"hard tech\" projects) building complex electromechanical systems and sensors.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Deep understanding of DC-DC converters, EMI/EMC mitigation, and standard communication protocols (I2C, SPI, CAN bus, UART).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with hardware validation cycles, debug and measurement methods.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with wire harnesses, cabling &amp; connectors.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience designing for volume processes and working with contract manufacturers.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">You are comfortable with ambiguity, move fast, and have an \"engineering curiosity\" that drives you to understand how the entire system works, not just your part.</p></li></ul>","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MIND\n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\n\nWe're seeking a hands-on Electrical Design Engineers to design, build, and scale complex electrical systems. In this role, you will own the full design lifecycle—architecting boards, debugging prototypes in the lab, and working directly with manufacturers to bring high-reliability robots to market at scale.\n\n\n\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Design and develop complex electrical systems, including power distribution, sensor integration, and motor drive systems.\n\n - Execute full-cycle PCB development—schematic capture, component selection, multi-layer layout, and manufacturing file generation (Altium, KiCad, or OrCAD).\n\n - Assemble, test, and debug initial prototypes.\n\n - Work closely with firmware and mechanical engineers to define connectors, pinouts, and physical constraints.\n\n - Develop specifications and accelerated test plans to validate the product for its lifetime.\n\n - Interface with PCB fabricators and component suppliers to ensure timely delivery and DFM.\n   \n   \n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n - Technical degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.\n\n - 5+ years of experience (or equivalent \"hard tech\" projects) building complex electromechanical systems and sensors.\n\n - Deep understanding of DC-DC converters, EMI/EMC mitigation, and standard communication protocols (I2C, SPI, CAN bus, UART).\n\n - Experience with hardware validation cycles, debug and measurement methods.\n\n - Experience with wire harnesses, cabling & connectors.\n\n - Experience designing for volume processes and working with contract manufacturers.\n\n - You are comfortable with ambiguity, move fast, and have an \"engineering curiosity\" that drives you to understand how the entire system works, not just your part.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"07ed3974-1e0e-444b-be5e-84a5f8d3bc9a","title":"Global Supply Chain Manager","department":"Operations","team":"Operations","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-06-10T19:23:49.724+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/07ed3974-1e0e-444b-be5e-84a5f8d3bc9a","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/07ed3974-1e0e-444b-be5e-84a5f8d3bc9a/application","descriptionHtml":"<h3><strong>About Mind</strong></h3><div style=\"min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px\"> </div><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3><strong>About the Role</strong></h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">We're building robots for industrial deployment that push the limits of what hardware can do and we need someone who's done this before in the trenches, not just observed it from a distance.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">You'll be part of building our supply chain from scratch, working shoulder-to-shoulder with our engineering team, and moving at a fast pace. If you've thrived in that environment before - and you're hungry to do it again - this role is for you<strong>.<br /><br />Responsibilities</strong></p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Identify, evaluate, and onboard suppliers for motors (BLDC, stepper, servo), custom PCBs/PCBAs, injection-molded parts, CNC-machined components, cameras, connectors, and cable assemblies</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Own the full procurement cycle — issue quotes, negotiate piece pricing and tooling costs, and execute NDAs, supply agreements, and purchase orders</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build and maintain should-cost models across key commodities to drive cost reduction through competitive bidding, DFM feedback, and supplier consolidation</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Source components and work closely with machine shops, CMs, and CEMs to ensure parts are manufactured and shipped to spec and on time</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Develop and manage the supply chain readiness plan to move from low-volume prototype builds (10s of units) to initial production runs (100s–1,000s of units)</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Track supplier lead times, tooling timelines, and open items across all commodities using program management tools</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Manage ongoing supplier performance — partnerships, business reviews, dispute resolution, and corrective action plans</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Coordinate inbound logistics from domestic and international suppliers, managing inventory levels to balance carrying cost against schedule risk</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Identify single-source dependencies, long-lead-time components, and geopolitical risks; develop mitigation strategies including dual-sourcing and alternate qualification plans</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Work hand-in-hand with mechanical, electrical, firmware, and industrial design teams — providing sourcing input on component selection, alternate parts, and make-vs-buy decisions early enough to actually influence outcomes</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Qualifications</strong></p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">You've built supply chain at a startup before. You know what it means to operate without a playbook, move fast, and own outcomes end-to-end — not just manage a process someone else designed</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Deep sourcing intuition — you understand supplier economics, manufacturing processes, and what drives cost at the component level</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">5+ years of experience in supply chain, procurement, or sourcing within hardware-intensive industries such as robotics, industrial automation, consumer electronics, aerospace, or automotive</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Direct experience sourcing across multiple commodity categories — electromechanical components (motors, actuators), PCBs/PCBAs, injection-molded parts, machined metals, cameras/sensors, or connectors</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Familiarity with manufacturing processes such as injection molding, die-casting, MIM, CNC machining, and SMT assembly</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong negotiation skills with a track record of achieving competitive pricing and favorable terms with both domestic and international suppliers</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience managing the transition from prototype/NPI builds to volume production, including tooling qualification and first-article inspection processes</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, 3D models, and technical specifications well enough to contribute meaningfully in design reviews and supplier technical discussions</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience working with Chinese, Japanese, or Korean suppliers and contract manufacturers is a strong plus</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">You thrive in ambiguity, default to urgency, and have the drive to build — not just maintain</p></li></ul>","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MIND\n\n \n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\n\n\nWe're building robots for industrial deployment that push the limits of what hardware can do and we need someone who's done this before in the trenches, not just observed it from a distance.\n\nYou'll be part of building our supply chain from scratch, working shoulder-to-shoulder with our engineering team, and moving at a fast pace. If you've thrived in that environment before - and you're hungry to do it again - this role is for you.\n\nResponsibilities\n\n - Identify, evaluate, and onboard suppliers for motors (BLDC, stepper, servo), custom PCBs/PCBAs, injection-molded parts, CNC-machined components, cameras, connectors, and cable assemblies\n\n - Own the full procurement cycle — issue quotes, negotiate piece pricing and tooling costs, and execute NDAs, supply agreements, and purchase orders\n\n - Build and maintain should-cost models across key commodities to drive cost reduction through competitive bidding, DFM feedback, and supplier consolidation\n\n - Source components and work closely with machine shops, CMs, and CEMs to ensure parts are manufactured and shipped to spec and on time\n\n - Develop and manage the supply chain readiness plan to move from low-volume prototype builds (10s of units) to initial production runs (100s–1,000s of units)\n\n - Track supplier lead times, tooling timelines, and open items across all commodities using program management tools\n\n - Manage ongoing supplier performance — partnerships, business reviews, dispute resolution, and corrective action plans\n\n - Coordinate inbound logistics from domestic and international suppliers, managing inventory levels to balance carrying cost against schedule risk\n\n - Identify single-source dependencies, long-lead-time components, and geopolitical risks; develop mitigation strategies including dual-sourcing and alternate qualification plans\n\n - Work hand-in-hand with mechanical, electrical, firmware, and industrial design teams — providing sourcing input on component selection, alternate parts, and make-vs-buy decisions early enough to actually influence outcomes\n\nQualifications\n\n - You've built supply chain at a startup before. 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We need someone who treats that gap as the interesting part of the job, not a blocker.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3>Responsibilities</h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Lead the safety lifecycle for our robot platform: hazard analysis, risk assessment, SIL/PL determination, safety requirements specification, and validation.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Design safety architectures (E-stops, safety-rated monitored stops, power and force limiting, speed and separation monitoring) appropriate to a mobile, dynamically balancing robot.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Select and justify safety-rated components : controllers, sensors, contactors, and where no off-the-shelf component fits, design or specify alternatives that achieve equivalent safety integrity.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Drive certification efforts , and own the technical file.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Partner with mechanical, electrical, controls, and AI teams to bake safety into the design rather than bolt it on.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build the test fixtures, procedures, and evidence needed to prove our safety claims.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Stay ahead of evolving standards (ISO 25785-1, the in-progress humanoid-specific work, etc.) and translate them into engineering decisions..</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p></li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">5–10 years of safety engineering experience on industrial robots, collaborative robots, AGVs/AMRs, or comparable machinery.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Deep working knowledge of ISO 13849, IEC 62061, IEC 61508, and ISO 10218 (or ANSI/RIA R15.06); familiarity with ISO/TS 15066 for collaborative applications.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Software safety experience (IEC 61508-3) in addition to systems-level work.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Hands-on experience taking a product through safety certification — not just supporting it, but owning the technical narrative and defending it to assessors.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Comfort with the full toolkit: FMEA, FTA, HAZOP, STPA, and the judgment to know which to reach for.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">A creative mindset. Standards rarely dictate components; they dictate outcomes. We want someone who can architect a novel solution, justify it against the standard's intent, and convince a notified body it meets the bar.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong communication — you'll be explaining safety tradeoffs to executives, engineers, and external assessors who all need different versions of the same story.</p></li></ul>","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MIND\n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nWe’re looking for a Safety Engineer who can own functional safety end-to-end for our robotics platform: hazard analysis, architectural decisions, component selection, certification, and the messy real-world testing in between.\n\nStandards like ISO 3691-4 and ISO 10218 tell you what outcomes you must achieve. They don’t tell you how to get there with a dynamic, multi-DOF system that doesn’t fit cleanly into the assumptions those standards were written under. We need someone who treats that gap as the interesting part of the job, not a blocker.\n\n\n\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Lead the safety lifecycle for our robot platform: hazard analysis, risk assessment, SIL/PL determination, safety requirements specification, and validation.\n\n - Design safety architectures (E-stops, safety-rated monitored stops, power and force limiting, speed and separation monitoring) appropriate to a mobile, dynamically balancing robot.\n\n - Select and justify safety-rated components : controllers, sensors, contactors, and where no off-the-shelf component fits, design or specify alternatives that achieve equivalent safety integrity.\n\n - Drive certification efforts , and own the technical file.\n\n - Partner with mechanical, electrical, controls, and AI teams to bake safety into the design rather than bolt it on.\n\n - Build the test fixtures, procedures, and evidence needed to prove our safety claims.\n\n - Stay ahead of evolving standards (ISO 25785-1, the in-progress humanoid-specific work, etc.) and translate them into engineering decisions..\n   \n   \n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n - 5–10 years of safety engineering experience on industrial robots, collaborative robots, AGVs/AMRs, or comparable machinery.\n\n - Deep working knowledge of ISO 13849, IEC 62061, IEC 61508, and ISO 10218 (or ANSI/RIA R15.06); familiarity with ISO/TS 15066 for collaborative applications.\n\n - Software safety experience (IEC 61508-3) in addition to systems-level work.\n\n - Hands-on experience taking a product through safety certification — not just supporting it, but owning the technical narrative and defending it to assessors.\n\n - Comfort with the full toolkit: FMEA, FTA, HAZOP, STPA, and the judgment to know which to reach for.\n\n - A creative mindset. 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We want someone who can architect a novel solution, justify it against the standard's intent, and convince a notified body it meets the bar.\n\n - Strong communication — you'll be explaining safety tradeoffs to executives, engineers, and external assessors who all need different versions of the same story.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"24763a89-1a90-4f85-8862-c3841e9a113b","title":"Mechanical Design Engineer, Tactile Sensing","department":"Hardware Engineering","team":"Hardware Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-05-18T21:05:28.275+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/24763a89-1a90-4f85-8862-c3841e9a113b","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/24763a89-1a90-4f85-8862-c3841e9a113b/application","descriptionHtml":"<h3><strong>About Mind</strong></h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. 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In this role, you will bridge the gap between hard mechanical architecture and soft, compliant material interfaces, building robust sensory \"skins\" for robotic hands, grippers, and contact-rich interfaces.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Design and develop mechanical components, assemblies, and skins for tactile sensors integrated into robotic end effectors (fingertips, palms, gripper surfaces) , data collection gloves and other contact-rich subsystems.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Own the tactile sensor stack mechanically from transducer packaging and skin/elastomer design through integration into volume-constrained, cable-routed assemblies.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Develop and tune elastomer / compliant materials (silicone, urethane, gels) including durometer selection, embedded markers or particles, surface texturing, and durability under shear and cyclic loading.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Rapidly build, test, and break prototypes. Use 3D printing and manual fabrication to validate designs.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Perform analyses (FEA, contact mechanics, tolerance, thermal) to validate sensor performance, predict failure modes, and guide design decisions.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Design characterization fixtures and accelerated test plans — indenters, force/torque ground truth setups, shear testers, life-cycle rigs — to validate tactile performance under realistic contact conditions.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Contribute to DFM/DFA efforts so sensor designs scale from low-volume prototypes to high-volume production.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Source components and work closely with machine shops, materials suppliers, and contract manufacturers to ensure parts are manufactured and shipped to spec and on time.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Develop specifications and accelerated test plans to validate the product for its lifetime.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Collaborate cross-functionally with electrical, firmware, controls, and ML teams to translate raw sensor signals into usable manipulation feedback.</p></li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Exceptional Mechanical Intuition. You understand how forces, materials, and contact mechanics behave instinctively.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">5+ years of experience (or equivalent \"hard tech\" projects) building complex electromechanical systems, sensors, or tactile/haptic devices.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Direct experience with at least one tactile sensing modality — capacitive, resistive, optical/vision-based, magnetic, , piezoelectric, MEMS, or barometric.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong materials intuition, particularly with elastomers - hands-on experience with casting, molding, surface treatments, and characterization.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Familiarity with rapid prototyping techniques such as 3D printing, machining, soft lithography, etc.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">High proficiency in SolidWorks, Catia, or similar CAD tools.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Hands-on problem-solving approach with ability to iterate quickly.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience designing for volume processes (injection molding, casting, CNC, etc.) and working with contract manufacturers.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">You are comfortable with ambiguity, move fast, and have an \"engineering curiosity\" that drives you to understand how the entire system works, not just your part.</p></li></ul><h3>Bonus</h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">PhD or research experience in tactile / haptic sensing, soft robotics, or contact-rich manipulation.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience designing sensor characterization rigs and analyzing the resulting data.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Working knowledge of sensor electronics and analog front-ends sufficient to collaborate deeply with EE.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Prior work on humanoid hands, dexterous grippers, or prosthetics.</p></li></ul>","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MIND\n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nWe are looking for a hands-on Mechanical Design Engineer to lead the physical design, material selection, and integration of our next-generation tactile sensing systems that allows our robots to feel, manipulate, and interact with the physical world in real time. In this role, you will bridge the gap between hard mechanical architecture and soft, compliant material interfaces, building robust sensory \"skins\" for robotic hands, grippers, and contact-rich interfaces.\n\n\n\nResponsibilities\n\n - Design and develop mechanical components, assemblies, and skins for tactile sensors integrated into robotic end effectors (fingertips, palms, gripper surfaces) , data collection gloves and other contact-rich subsystems.\n\n - Own the tactile sensor stack mechanically from transducer packaging and skin/elastomer design through integration into volume-constrained, cable-routed assemblies.\n\n - Develop and tune elastomer / compliant materials (silicone, urethane, gels) including durometer selection, embedded markers or particles, surface texturing, and durability under shear and cyclic loading.\n\n - Rapidly build, test, and break prototypes. Use 3D printing and manual fabrication to validate designs.\n\n - Perform analyses (FEA, contact mechanics, tolerance, thermal) to validate sensor performance, predict failure modes, and guide design decisions.\n\n - Design characterization fixtures and accelerated test plans — indenters, force/torque ground truth setups, shear testers, life-cycle rigs — to validate tactile performance under realistic contact conditions.\n\n - Contribute to DFM/DFA efforts so sensor designs scale from low-volume prototypes to high-volume production.\n\n - Source components and work closely with machine shops, materials suppliers, and contract manufacturers to ensure parts are manufactured and shipped to spec and on time.\n\n - Develop specifications and accelerated test plans to validate the product for its lifetime.\n\n - Collaborate cross-functionally with electrical, firmware, controls, and ML teams to translate raw sensor signals into usable manipulation feedback.\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n - Exceptional Mechanical Intuition. You understand how forces, materials, and contact mechanics behave instinctively.\n\n - 5+ years of experience (or equivalent \"hard tech\" projects) building complex electromechanical systems, sensors, or tactile/haptic devices.\n\n - Direct experience with at least one tactile sensing modality — capacitive, resistive, optical/vision-based, magnetic, , piezoelectric, MEMS, or barometric.\n\n - Strong materials intuition, particularly with elastomers - hands-on experience with casting, molding, surface treatments, and characterization.\n\n - Familiarity with rapid prototyping techniques such as 3D printing, machining, soft lithography, etc.\n\n - High proficiency in SolidWorks, Catia, or similar CAD tools.\n\n - Hands-on problem-solving approach with ability to iterate quickly.\n\n - Experience designing for volume processes (injection molding, casting, CNC, etc.) and working with contract manufacturers.\n\n - You are comfortable with ambiguity, move fast, and have an \"engineering curiosity\" that drives you to understand how the entire system works, not just your part.\n\n\nBONUS\n\n - PhD or research experience in tactile / haptic sensing, soft robotics, or contact-rich manipulation.\n\n - Experience designing sensor characterization rigs and analyzing the resulting data.\n\n - Working knowledge of sensor electronics and analog front-ends sufficient to collaborate deeply with EE.\n\n - Prior work on humanoid hands, dexterous grippers, or prosthetics.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"7f09ca71-5a5a-410e-9deb-4ea3c0c9b4e5","title":"Thermal Design Engineer","department":"Hardware Engineering","team":"Hardware Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-05-18T23:39:17.371+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/7f09ca71-5a5a-410e-9deb-4ea3c0c9b4e5","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/7f09ca71-5a5a-410e-9deb-4ea3c0c9b4e5/application","descriptionHtml":"<h3><strong>About Mind</strong></h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3>About the Role</h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><br />As a Thermal Design Engineer at Mind Robotics, you will own the thermal architecture and analysis for our industrial robots, from high-torque actuators and constrained end effectors to dense on-board compute. You will build high-fidelity CFD/FEA models and validate them through hands-on testing, environmental stress, and hardware instrumentation. Working from concept through volume production, you will design scalable cooling solutions like heat sinks, vapor chambers, and TIMs using manufacturing processes like die casting and extrusion. Collaborating closely with electrical, firmware, and controls teams, you will turn complex thermal challenges into high-performance, real-world Physical AI systems.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3>Responsibilities</h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Own thermal design and analysis across the robot including arms, end effectors, and on-board compute from concept through volume production.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Develop thermal architectures for high-torque-density actuators (motors, gearboxes, drives) in joints, where heat dissipation is the limiting factor on continuous performance.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Design cooling solutions for end effectors within tight volume, mass, and cable-routing constraints.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Develop thermal management for on-board compute (CPUs, GPUs, custom accelerators, power electronics), including airflow, heat sinks, heat pipes, vapor chambers, TIMs, and active cooling where needed.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build thermal models (analytical, CFD, FEA) and validate them with hands-on testing (thermocouple instrumentation, IR imaging, calorimetry, and accelerated stress tests)</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Specify and select thermal components (TIMs, fans, heat pipes, heat sinks, blowers, phase-change materials) and own supplier relationships.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Define thermal limits, derating curves, and protection logic in collaboration with electrical, firmware, and controls teams.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Contribute to DFM/DFA so thermal solutions scale from low-volume prototypes to high-volume production.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Develop accelerated test plans to validate thermal performance over the product's lifetime, including environmental and duty-cycle stress.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p></li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">5+ years of experience (or equivalent \"hard tech\" projects) designing and validating thermal solutions for complex electromechanical systems.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong fundamentals in conduction, convection, and radiation, plus working knowledge of two-phase cooling and heat-pipe / vapor-chamber design.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Hands-on experience with CFD tools (Ansys Icepak, Flotherm, SolidWorks Flow Simulation, or similar) and thermal FEA.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Track record solving thermal problems in at least one of: high-torque-density motors / actuators, dense power electronics, or compute (CPU / GPU / custom accelerator).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Comfortable instrumenting, testing, and debugging thermal performance on real hardware.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience designing for volume processes (extrusion, die casting, brazing, stamping) and working with thermal component suppliers and contract manufacturers.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">High proficiency in SolidWorks, Catia, or similar CAD tools.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Hands-on problem-solving approach with the ability to iterate quickly.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">You are comfortable with ambiguity, move fast, and have an \"engineering curiosity\" that drives you to understand how the entire system works, not just your part.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p></li></ul><h3>Bonus</h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience in robotics, prosthetics, EV powertrains, drones, or other dense electromechanical systems.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Familiarity with motor / actuator thermal modeling (winding hot-spot estimation, lumped-parameter networks).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with liquid cooling or hybrid air / liquid systems.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">PhD or research experience in thermal sciences.</p></li></ul>","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MIND\n\n\n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\n\nAs a Thermal Design Engineer at Mind Robotics, you will own the thermal architecture and analysis for our industrial robots, from high-torque actuators and constrained end effectors to dense on-board compute. You will build high-fidelity CFD/FEA models and validate them through hands-on testing, environmental stress, and hardware instrumentation. Working from concept through volume production, you will design scalable cooling solutions like heat sinks, vapor chambers, and TIMs using manufacturing processes like die casting and extrusion. Collaborating closely with electrical, firmware, and controls teams, you will turn complex thermal challenges into high-performance, real-world Physical AI systems.\n\n\n\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Own thermal design and analysis across the robot including arms, end effectors, and on-board compute from concept through volume production.\n\n - Develop thermal architectures for high-torque-density actuators (motors, gearboxes, drives) in joints, where heat dissipation is the limiting factor on continuous performance.\n\n - Design cooling solutions for end effectors within tight volume, mass, and cable-routing constraints.\n\n - Develop thermal management for on-board compute (CPUs, GPUs, custom accelerators, power electronics), including airflow, heat sinks, heat pipes, vapor chambers, TIMs, and active cooling where needed.\n\n - Build thermal models (analytical, CFD, FEA) and validate them with hands-on testing (thermocouple instrumentation, IR imaging, calorimetry, and accelerated stress tests)\n\n - Specify and select thermal components (TIMs, fans, heat pipes, heat sinks, blowers, phase-change materials) and own supplier relationships.\n\n - Define thermal limits, derating curves, and protection logic in collaboration with electrical, firmware, and controls teams.\n\n - Contribute to DFM/DFA so thermal solutions scale from low-volume prototypes to high-volume production.\n\n - Develop accelerated test plans to validate thermal performance over the product's lifetime, including environmental and duty-cycle stress.\n   \n   \n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n - 5+ years of experience (or equivalent \"hard tech\" projects) designing and validating thermal solutions for complex electromechanical systems.\n\n - Strong fundamentals in conduction, convection, and radiation, plus working knowledge of two-phase cooling and heat-pipe / vapor-chamber design.\n\n - Hands-on experience with CFD tools (Ansys Icepak, Flotherm, SolidWorks Flow Simulation, or similar) and thermal FEA.\n\n - Track record solving thermal problems in at least one of: high-torque-density motors / actuators, dense power electronics, or compute (CPU / GPU / custom accelerator).\n\n - Comfortable instrumenting, testing, and debugging thermal performance on real hardware.\n\n - Experience designing for volume processes (extrusion, die casting, brazing, stamping) and working with thermal component suppliers and contract manufacturers.\n\n - High proficiency in SolidWorks, Catia, or similar CAD tools.\n\n - Hands-on problem-solving approach with the ability to iterate quickly.\n\n - You are comfortable with ambiguity, move fast, and have an \"engineering curiosity\" that drives you to understand how the entire system works, not just your part.\n   \n   \n\n\nBONUS\n\n - Experience in robotics, prosthetics, EV powertrains, drones, or other dense electromechanical systems.\n\n - Familiarity with motor / actuator thermal modeling (winding hot-spot estimation, lumped-parameter networks).\n\n - Experience with liquid cooling or hybrid air / liquid systems.\n\n - PhD or research experience in thermal sciences.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"7a25a448-1da5-4e42-9e36-58dada498c15","title":"Firmware Engineer","department":"Software Engineering","team":"Software Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-06-15T23:08:54.306+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/7a25a448-1da5-4e42-9e36-58dada498c15","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/7a25a448-1da5-4e42-9e36-58dada498c15/application","descriptionHtml":"<h3><strong>About Mind:</strong></h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3><strong>About the team and the role:</strong></h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">At Mind Robotics, we're building <strong>generalized physical AI</strong>—robotic systems capable of dexterous, adaptive, and reasoning-intensive work in real-world industrial environments. Firmware is the connective tissue between intelligence and action; the layer where commands become motion.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">We're looking for a <strong>Firmware Engineer</strong> to own the embedded software that brings our robots to life — from low-level motor control and real-time scheduling to the communication buses that tie the whole system together.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Write, test, and maintain production-quality firmware in C/C++ or Rust for microcontrollers and embedded processors across the robot.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Implement and debug embedded communication protocols — CAN, EtherCAT, I2C, SPI, UART — across distributed hardware nodes.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Configure and manage microcontroller peripherals — GPIO, ADC, PWM, timers, and DMA — to interface with sensors, actuators, and power electronics.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Integrate sensors (encoders, IMUs, torque sensors, force/torque arrays) into the robot's real-time pipeline.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Work closely with electrical engineers on board bring-up, pinout definitions, and hardware-software interface design.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Develop and tune real-time control loops for motors, actuators, and other physical systems under hard timing constraints.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build tooling to support firmware validation, regression testing, and hardware-in-the-loop systems.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Triage and debug complex interactions between firmware, hardware, and higher-level software during development and field deployment.</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3><strong>Requirements:</strong></h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Technical degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Demonstrated experience (through work, research, or projects) building firmware for real physical systems — robots, motors, power electronics, or similar.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Deep fluency in C/C++ and/or Rust for embedded targets; comfort reading datasheets and writing drivers.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Hands-on experience with RTOS environments (FreeRTOS, Zephyr, or similar) — task scheduling, priority management, and real-time guarantees.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong working knowledge of embedded communication protocols: CAN, EtherCAT, I2C, SPI, UART.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Direct experience configuring microcontroller peripherals (GPIO, ADC, PWM, timers, DMA) and understanding their impact on system timing and performance.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience integrating sensors and actuators at the firmware level — not just using libraries, but understanding the hardware underneath.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Proven ability to debug across the hardware/software boundary with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and JTAG.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">You are comfortable with ambiguity, move fast, and have an \"engineering curiosity\" that drives you to understand how the entire system works, not just your part.</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3><strong>Nice to Have:</strong></h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with safety-critical or deterministic real-time systems (IEC 61508, ISO 26262, or similar).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Familiarity with field-oriented control (FOC) or other motor control algorithms.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with Linux-based embedded systems and the boundary between RTOS and application layers.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Python scripting for test automation, data logging, or hardware validation.</p></li></ul>","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MIND:\n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE TEAM AND THE ROLE:\n\nAt Mind Robotics, we're building generalized physical AI—robotic systems capable of dexterous, adaptive, and reasoning-intensive work in real-world industrial environments. Firmware is the connective tissue between intelligence and action; the layer where commands become motion.\n\nWe're looking for a Firmware Engineer to own the embedded software that brings our robots to life — from low-level motor control and real-time scheduling to the communication buses that tie the whole system together.\n\n\n\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES:\n\n - Write, test, and maintain production-quality firmware in C/C++ or Rust for microcontrollers and embedded processors across the robot.\n\n - Implement and debug embedded communication protocols — CAN, EtherCAT, I2C, SPI, UART — across distributed hardware nodes.\n\n - Configure and manage microcontroller peripherals — GPIO, ADC, PWM, timers, and DMA — to interface with sensors, actuators, and power electronics.\n\n - Integrate sensors (encoders, IMUs, torque sensors, force/torque arrays) into the robot's real-time pipeline.\n\n - Work closely with electrical engineers on board bring-up, pinout definitions, and hardware-software interface design.\n\n - Develop and tune real-time control loops for motors, actuators, and other physical systems under hard timing constraints.\n\n - Build tooling to support firmware validation, regression testing, and hardware-in-the-loop systems.\n\n - Triage and debug complex interactions between firmware, hardware, and higher-level software during development and field deployment.\n\n\n\n\nREQUIREMENTS:\n\n - Technical degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.\n\n - Demonstrated experience (through work, research, or projects) building firmware for real physical systems — robots, motors, power electronics, or similar.\n\n - Deep fluency in C/C++ and/or Rust for embedded targets; comfort reading datasheets and writing drivers.\n\n - Hands-on experience with RTOS environments (FreeRTOS, Zephyr, or similar) — task scheduling, priority management, and real-time guarantees.\n\n - Strong working knowledge of embedded communication protocols: CAN, EtherCAT, I2C, SPI, UART.\n\n - Direct experience configuring microcontroller peripherals (GPIO, ADC, PWM, timers, DMA) and understanding their impact on system timing and performance.\n\n - Experience integrating sensors and actuators at the firmware level — not just using libraries, but understanding the hardware underneath.\n\n - Proven ability to debug across the hardware/software boundary with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and JTAG.\n\n - You are comfortable with ambiguity, move fast, and have an \"engineering curiosity\" that drives you to understand how the entire system works, not just your part.\n\n\n\n\nNICE TO HAVE:\n\n - Experience with safety-critical or deterministic real-time systems (IEC 61508, ISO 26262, or similar).\n\n - Familiarity with field-oriented control (FOC) or other motor control algorithms.\n\n - Experience with Linux-based embedded systems and the boundary between RTOS and application layers.\n\n - Python scripting for test automation, data logging, or hardware validation.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"dc99eff5-34e5-4595-bb80-ba5b5b9eea16","title":"Forward Deployed Engineer","department":"Software Engineering","team":"Software Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Normal, IL","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-06-10T21:46:54.372+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"postalCode":"61761","addressRegion":"IL","streetAddress":"100 Rivian Motorway","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Normal"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/dc99eff5-34e5-4595-bb80-ba5b5b9eea16","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/dc99eff5-34e5-4595-bb80-ba5b5b9eea16/application","descriptionHtml":"<h3><strong>About Mind:</strong></h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3><strong>About the Role</strong></h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">We’re hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to be our hands and eyes onsite at a key customer in Normal, IL. You’ll be responsible for our fleet of data collection devices — diagnosing and repairing devices, provisioning new hardware, troubleshooting networking, and running the diagnostic workflows that keep the system healthy. <strong>This role will start with critical robot data collection devices and then transition into robot deployment support</strong>.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">This is a forward-deployed role with strong support from HQ. You won’t be alone: our engineering team is one Slack message away, and you’ll work closely with them to escalate complex issues, ship fixes back into the product, and bring the voice of the customer into our roadmap. The ideal candidate is technically curious, calm under pressure, and energized by being the person on the ground who makes things work.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Provision new hardware by installing and configuring Linux, deploying our software stack, and validating device health before bringing units into production.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Run diagnostic scripts, collect and interpret system logs, and execute command-line workflows to identify root causes of device or network issues.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Configure and troubleshoot local networking (IP, DHCP, DNS, VLANs, Wi-Fi/Ethernet) to ensure reliable device connectivity to our backend.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Serve as the customer's primary technical point of contact onsite, coordinating closely with HQ engineering and support to resolve issues and feed field learnings back into the product.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Develop code fixes for issues found in the field, including root-causing problems down to the code level and submitting changes through Git and code review.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Test and validate SW trials on field devices by running test plans, capturing results and regressions, and giving a go/no-go before builds roll out fleet-wide.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Be part of the SW sprints by joining planning, standups, and retros, picking up field-related tickets, and helping prioritize the backlog based on customer impact.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Bridge the gap between the SW team and FDE by turning field observations into reproducible bug reports (logs, steps, telemetry) and relaying software changes and new workflows back to the onsite team.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build scripts and small tools that automate provisioning, diagnostics, log collection, and routine fleet maintenance.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Monitor fleet health using dashboards, metrics, and logs to catch issues early and verify that deployed fixes resolved the problem.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Support staged software rollouts and rollbacks across device groups.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Maintain runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and known-issue documentation.</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Qualifications</strong></p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Hands-on hardware and software troubleshooting experience, ideally with microcomputers, embedded devices, cameras, or similar single-board computers.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Comfort with Linux system administration: installing distributions, package management, systemd services, file permissions, and basic shell navigation.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Working knowledge of Bash (and ideally Python) for reading and running simple diagnostic scripts and automating routine tasks.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Solid networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, subnets, DNS, DHCP, basic firewall rules, and fluency with tools like ping, traceroute, tcpdump, and ssh.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong customer-facing communication skills and the self-direction to operate independently onsite while staying tightly coordinated with a remote HQ team.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Software development experience, with the ability to read, debug, and write production code (Python preferred).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with Git-based workflows (branching, pull requests, code review) and working in an Agile/sprint environment.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with software testing and validation: writing test cases, reproducing bugs, and clearly documenting results.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Prior experience in a field service, forward deployed, or solutions engineering role (is a plus).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Familiarity with DevOps and software infrastructure tools such as Docker, Ansible, Portainer, etc (is a plus).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Familiarity with computer vision systems, IP cameras, or industrial IoT deployments  (is a plus).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with Git, basic scripting in Python, or remote device management tools  (is a plus).</p></li></ul>","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MIND:\n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nWe’re hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to be our hands and eyes onsite at a key customer in Normal, IL. You’ll be responsible for our fleet of data collection devices — diagnosing and repairing devices, provisioning new hardware, troubleshooting networking, and running the diagnostic workflows that keep the system healthy. This role will start with critical robot data collection devices and then transition into robot deployment support.\n\nThis is a forward-deployed role with strong support from HQ. You won’t be alone: our engineering team is one Slack message away, and you’ll work closely with them to escalate complex issues, ship fixes back into the product, and bring the voice of the customer into our roadmap. The ideal candidate is technically curious, calm under pressure, and energized by being the person on the ground who makes things work.\n\n\n\nResponsibilities\n\n - Provision new hardware by installing and configuring Linux, deploying our software stack, and validating device health before bringing units into production.\n\n - Run diagnostic scripts, collect and interpret system logs, and execute command-line workflows to identify root causes of device or network issues.\n\n - Configure and troubleshoot local networking (IP, DHCP, DNS, VLANs, Wi-Fi/Ethernet) to ensure reliable device connectivity to our backend.\n\n - Serve as the customer's primary technical point of contact onsite, coordinating closely with HQ engineering and support to resolve issues and feed field learnings back into the product.\n\n - Develop code fixes for issues found in the field, including root-causing problems down to the code level and submitting changes through Git and code review.\n\n - Test and validate SW trials on field devices by running test plans, capturing results and regressions, and giving a go/no-go before builds roll out fleet-wide.\n\n - Be part of the SW sprints by joining planning, standups, and retros, picking up field-related tickets, and helping prioritize the backlog based on customer impact.\n\n - Bridge the gap between the SW team and FDE by turning field observations into reproducible bug reports (logs, steps, telemetry) and relaying software changes and new workflows back to the onsite team.\n\n - Build scripts and small tools that automate provisioning, diagnostics, log collection, and routine fleet maintenance.\n\n - Monitor fleet health using dashboards, metrics, and logs to catch issues early and verify that deployed fixes resolved the problem.\n\n - Support staged software rollouts and rollbacks across device groups.\n\n - Maintain runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and known-issue documentation.\n\nQualifications\n\n - Hands-on hardware and software troubleshooting experience, ideally with microcomputers, embedded devices, cameras, or similar single-board computers.\n\n - Comfort with Linux system administration: installing distributions, package management, systemd services, file permissions, and basic shell navigation.\n\n - Working knowledge of Bash (and ideally Python) for reading and running simple diagnostic scripts and automating routine tasks.\n\n - Solid networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, subnets, DNS, DHCP, basic firewall rules, and fluency with tools like ping, traceroute, tcpdump, and ssh.\n\n - Strong customer-facing communication skills and the self-direction to operate independently onsite while staying tightly coordinated with a remote HQ team.\n\n - Software development experience, with the ability to read, debug, and write production code (Python preferred).\n\n - Experience with Git-based workflows (branching, pull requests, code review) and working in an Agile/sprint environment.\n\n - Experience with software testing and validation: writing test cases, reproducing bugs, and clearly documenting results.\n\n - Prior experience in a field service, forward deployed, or solutions engineering role (is a plus).\n\n - Familiarity with DevOps and software infrastructure tools such as Docker, Ansible, Portainer, etc (is a plus).\n\n - Familiarity with computer vision systems, IP cameras, or industrial IoT deployments  (is a plus).\n\n - Experience with Git, basic scripting in Python, or remote device management tools  (is a plus).","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"fb8069df-c86b-48c8-b36c-76f6fc3b433d","title":"Technical Program Manager, Hardware","department":"Operations","team":"Operations","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-06-25T01:28:46.877+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/fb8069df-c86b-48c8-b36c-76f6fc3b433d","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/fb8069df-c86b-48c8-b36c-76f6fc3b433d/application","descriptionHtml":"<h3><strong>About Mind:</strong></h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.</p><div style=\"min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px\"> </div><div style=\"min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px\"> </div><h3><strong>About the team and the role:</strong></h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Program Management at Mind is an operational catalyst. We own outcomes, drive the trade-offs that keep engineering moving, and set the metabolic rate of the teams we partner with — clearing roadblocks, closing stalled decisions, carrying risk upward, and protecting the focus engineers need to build. As a Hardware Program Manager you will own the integrated program plan across all of hardware and build the practice itself: how teams define their own milestones and commit to org-level ones, how we know week over week whether we are on or off track, and how problems surface early enough that we can still do something about them. You will partner directly with the industrial design, software, and data teams so that our plans collectively roll up to meet our goals of deployed robots doing real work.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>End-to-End Planning:</strong> Own the overall plan for development of our robot — including subsystem plans and investigations across mechanical, electrical, compute, actuation, and sensor systems.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Technical/Business Grounding:</strong> Engage directly in architecture and design discussions at a depth sufficient to stress-test engineering estimates and ensure alignment with business goals.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Guiding Technical Decisions:</strong> Keep technical decisions moving to closure — resolved at the team level where possible, escalated when they can't be.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Program Practice Design:</strong> Establish how hardware program management works at Mind: the planning rhythm that connects team-level work to org-level milestones and the artifacts that support both the individual engineer and leadership in prioritization and decision making.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Progress Tracking:</strong> Build the tracking layer that answers whether we are on or off track, drawn from the systems teams already work in. Monitor and report on key program metrics, and communicate status, blockers, and risks to leadership.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Risk and Issue Management:</strong> Identify and communicate technical, dependency, and resourcing risks early. Drive the process for mitigations and resolution.</p></li></ul><h3><strong>Requirements:</strong></h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Industry Experience:</strong> 5+ years of experience in technical program management for hardware product development, ideally in robotics or other products that integrate mechanical, electrical, compute, actuation, and sensing systems.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Proven Track Record:</strong> Demonstrated success taking hardware projects from nothing more than ideas to hardened, reliable products.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Technical Depth:</strong> Strong fundamentals in engineering/science with the ability to engage meaningfully in architecture, planning, and systems integration discussions.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>System Complexity:</strong> Experience managing programs spanning multiple interdependent domains along with dependencies on broader cross-functional teams such as software engineering and operations.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Execution &amp; Ownership:</strong> High sense of urgency, comfortable with ambiguity, and driven by an \"engineering curiosity\" to understand how the entire system works.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Educational Background:</strong> Bachelor's degree in engineering, or equivalent experience.</p></li></ul>","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MIND:\n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.\n\n \n \n\n\nABOUT THE TEAM AND THE ROLE:\n\nProgram Management at Mind is an operational catalyst. We own outcomes, drive the trade-offs that keep engineering moving, and set the metabolic rate of the teams we partner with — clearing roadblocks, closing stalled decisions, carrying risk upward, and protecting the focus engineers need to build. As a Hardware Program Manager you will own the integrated program plan across all of hardware and build the practice itself: how teams define their own milestones and commit to org-level ones, how we know week over week whether we are on or off track, and how problems surface early enough that we can still do something about them. You will partner directly with the industrial design, software, and data teams so that our plans collectively roll up to meet our goals of deployed robots doing real work.\n\nResponsibilities:\n\n - End-to-End Planning: Own the overall plan for development of our robot — including subsystem plans and investigations across mechanical, electrical, compute, actuation, and sensor systems.\n\n - Technical/Business Grounding: Engage directly in architecture and design discussions at a depth sufficient to stress-test engineering estimates and ensure alignment with business goals.\n\n - Guiding Technical Decisions: Keep technical decisions moving to closure — resolved at the team level where possible, escalated when they can't be.\n\n - Program Practice Design: Establish how hardware program management works at Mind: the planning rhythm that connects team-level work to org-level milestones and the artifacts that support both the individual engineer and leadership in prioritization and decision making.\n\n - Progress Tracking: Build the tracking layer that answers whether we are on or off track, drawn from the systems teams already work in. Monitor and report on key program metrics, and communicate status, blockers, and risks to leadership.\n\n - Risk and Issue Management: Identify and communicate technical, dependency, and resourcing risks early. Drive the process for mitigations and resolution.\n\n\nREQUIREMENTS:\n\n - Industry Experience: 5+ years of experience in technical program management for hardware product development, ideally in robotics or other products that integrate mechanical, electrical, compute, actuation, and sensing systems.\n\n - Proven Track Record: Demonstrated success taking hardware projects from nothing more than ideas to hardened, reliable products.\n\n - Technical Depth: Strong fundamentals in engineering/science with the ability to engage meaningfully in architecture, planning, and systems integration discussions.\n\n - System Complexity: Experience managing programs spanning multiple interdependent domains along with dependencies on broader cross-functional teams such as software engineering and operations.\n\n - Execution & Ownership: High sense of urgency, comfortable with ambiguity, and driven by an \"engineering curiosity\" to understand how the entire system works.\n\n - Educational Background: Bachelor's degree in engineering, or equivalent experience.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"00d89fc0-cb5a-481d-92ce-0765d5eb6373","title":"Software Engineer, Edge & Field Systems","department":"Software Engineering","team":"Software Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-02T22:04:30.921+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/00d89fc0-cb5a-481d-92ce-0765d5eb6373","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/00d89fc0-cb5a-481d-92ce-0765d5eb6373/application","descriptionHtml":"<h3><strong>About Mind:</strong></h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3><strong>About the team and the role:</strong></h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">A a Software Engineer on Edge &amp; Field Systems, you'll be one of the founding engineers on the team that owns our application layer, reporting to our Head of Application Engineering. The systems work today; your job is to help harden and productionize them for scale — from 10 capture stations at one site to hundreds across multiple OEM plants, and from a handful of teleop stations to a multi-shift fleet. This is early, hands-on, 0-to-1 engineering: you'll ship code that runs on real hardware in real factories, and see its effect on robot behavior.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build the field capture stack — edge software for our data collection rigs: device management, sensor orchestration, and real-time data quality monitoring that holds up on a factory floor, with workflows optimized for I/O-, compute-, and network-bound constraints</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Ship the teleop stack — collection, evaluation, and operator tooling for our teleoperation stations, including metrics, task management, and the workflows our robot operators use every day</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build and contribute to integration and validation testing for field software, including hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test setups that catch failures before they reach a live site</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build monitoring and dashboards that give visibility into fleet health, capture quality, and station uptime across sites, accounting for intermittent connectivity and bounded bandwidth in the field</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Make deployment repeatable — build tooling and configuration systems that make onboarding a new manufacturing site a config change, not a custom engineering project, including device provisioning workflows</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Support the field — debug issues on live systems, instrument for observability, and work directly with site operations staff and robot operators who depend on your software</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3><strong>Requirements:</strong></h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">2+ years of software engineering experience building production systems</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong programming fundamentals and comfort working across the stack — edge devices, services, and local data pipelines</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with at least one of: edge computing, device or fleet management, real-time systems, robotics or sensor systems</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Bias for ownership: you've taken features or systems from prototype to production and supported them in the field</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Clear communication and close collaboration with product, research, and operations partners</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Hands-on experience with sensor data (video, depth, IMU, force/torque) and the infrastructure to collect and monitor it in real time is a plus</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with hardware-in-the-loop or simulation-based testing (e.g., Isaac Sim, Gazebo, MuJoCo) is a plus</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Background in robotics, autonomous vehicles, industrial IoT, or teleoperation systems is a plus</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Exposure to manufacturing or other industrial environments is a plus</p></li></ul>","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MIND:\n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE TEAM AND THE ROLE:\n\nA a Software Engineer on Edge & Field Systems, you'll be one of the founding engineers on the team that owns our application layer, reporting to our Head of Application Engineering. The systems work today; your job is to help harden and productionize them for scale — from 10 capture stations at one site to hundreds across multiple OEM plants, and from a handful of teleop stations to a multi-shift fleet. This is early, hands-on, 0-to-1 engineering: you'll ship code that runs on real hardware in real factories, and see its effect on robot behavior.\n\n\n\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES:\n\n - Build the field capture stack — edge software for our data collection rigs: device management, sensor orchestration, and real-time data quality monitoring that holds up on a factory floor, with workflows optimized for I/O-, compute-, and network-bound constraints\n\n - Ship the teleop stack — collection, evaluation, and operator tooling for our teleoperation stations, including metrics, task management, and the workflows our robot operators use every day\n\n - Build and contribute to integration and validation testing for field software, including hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test setups that catch failures before they reach a live site\n\n - Build monitoring and dashboards that give visibility into fleet health, capture quality, and station uptime across sites, accounting for intermittent connectivity and bounded bandwidth in the field\n\n - Make deployment repeatable — build tooling and configuration systems that make onboarding a new manufacturing site a config change, not a custom engineering project, including device provisioning workflows\n\n - Support the field — debug issues on live systems, instrument for observability, and work directly with site operations staff and robot operators who depend on your software\n\n\n\n\nREQUIREMENTS:\n\n - 2+ years of software engineering experience building production systems\n\n - Strong programming fundamentals and comfort working across the stack — edge devices, services, and local data pipelines\n\n - Experience with at least one of: edge computing, device or fleet management, real-time systems, robotics or sensor systems\n\n - Bias for ownership: you've taken features or systems from prototype to production and supported them in the field\n\n - Clear communication and close collaboration with product, research, and operations partners\n\n - Hands-on experience with sensor data (video, depth, IMU, force/torque) and the infrastructure to collect and monitor it in real time is a plus\n\n - Experience with hardware-in-the-loop or simulation-based testing (e.g., Isaac Sim, Gazebo, MuJoCo) is a plus\n\n - Background in robotics, autonomous vehicles, industrial IoT, or teleoperation systems is a plus\n\n - Exposure to manufacturing or other industrial environments is a plus","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"71c161f9-c75c-4eff-ad79-37b6d67479b8","title":"Electrical Design Lead","department":"Hardware Engineering","team":"Hardware Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-24T23:18:12.959+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/71c161f9-c75c-4eff-ad79-37b6d67479b8","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/71c161f9-c75c-4eff-ad79-37b6d67479b8/application","descriptionHtml":"<h3><strong>About Mind</strong></h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3><strong>About the Role</strong></h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">We are looking for our Electrical Engineering Lead<strong> </strong>to own the end-to-end electrical architecture for our advanced robotic systems. This is a hands-on, deeply technical leadership role for an engineer who leads from the bench, personally driving schematic design, PCB layout, and low-level fault isolation, rather than managing from a distance.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">As a technical authority and mentor, you will elevate the team’s standard for engineering excellence while making critical trade-offs across power electronics, motor drives, high-speed sensing stacks, and EtherCAT-based distributed actuation. </p><h3><br />Responsibilities</h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Lead, mentor, and scale the EE team (power electronics, sensing, and electrical design) while raising the technical bar through hiring and onboarding.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Own the robot’s end-to-end electrical architecture (power, actuation, sensing, compute integration, and harnessing) and overall electrical budget.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Set EE design standards, review schematics/layouts, and arbitrate trade-offs across signal integrity, EMI/EMC, thermals, and cost.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Partner with mechanical, firmware, and perception teams to translate product requirements into hardware specs and integrate high-speed sensor stacks.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Lead system-level electrical bring-up, fault isolation, and root-cause debugging across board boundaries from the lab bench.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Establish lightweight, scalable workflows for design reviews, schematic/layout sign-offs, ECO discipline, and roadmapping.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Drive DFM/DFA, collaborate with PCB fabricators and contract manufacturers, and secure second-source components for production ramp.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p></li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Technical degree in EE (or equivalent) with 8+ years of full-cycle board development (schematic to production) for complex robotic, automotive, or electromechanical systems.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">A first-principles engineer who actively designs, lays out, and debugs hardware rather than managing purely from a distance.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Deep, hands-on experience with EtherCAT (topology, distributed-clock sync, PDO mapping) for distributed actuation and sensing.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mastery of at least one core domain—power electronics/motor drives or sensor/mixed-signal front-ends—with broad fluency across both.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong grasp of high-current power architectures, rail partitioning, budgeting, and circuit protection (OVP/UVP/OCP/OTP).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Solid command of EMI/EMC, grounding, and ESD mitigation in noisy, motor-dense environments.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Fluency with high-speed serial interfaces and protocols (SPI, I2C, UART, PMBus), plus enough firmware literacy to debug hardware boundaries.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Proven experience mentoring engineers, managing risk, and driving multi-board hardware projects through volume manufacturing.</p></li></ul>","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MIND\n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nWe are looking for our Electrical Engineering Lead to own the end-to-end electrical architecture for our advanced robotic systems. This is a hands-on, deeply technical leadership role for an engineer who leads from the bench, personally driving schematic design, PCB layout, and low-level fault isolation, rather than managing from a distance.\n\nAs a technical authority and mentor, you will elevate the team’s standard for engineering excellence while making critical trade-offs across power electronics, motor drives, high-speed sensing stacks, and EtherCAT-based distributed actuation. \n\n\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Lead, mentor, and scale the EE team (power electronics, sensing, and electrical design) while raising the technical bar through hiring and onboarding.\n\n - Own the robot’s end-to-end electrical architecture (power, actuation, sensing, compute integration, and harnessing) and overall electrical budget.\n\n - Set EE design standards, review schematics/layouts, and arbitrate trade-offs across signal integrity, EMI/EMC, thermals, and cost.\n\n - Partner with mechanical, firmware, and perception teams to translate product requirements into hardware specs and integrate high-speed sensor stacks.\n\n - Lead system-level electrical bring-up, fault isolation, and root-cause debugging across board boundaries from the lab bench.\n\n - Establish lightweight, scalable workflows for design reviews, schematic/layout sign-offs, ECO discipline, and roadmapping.\n\n - Drive DFM/DFA, collaborate with PCB fabricators and contract manufacturers, and secure second-source components for production ramp.\n   \n   \n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n - Technical degree in EE (or equivalent) with 8+ years of full-cycle board development (schematic to production) for complex robotic, automotive, or electromechanical systems.\n\n - A first-principles engineer who actively designs, lays out, and debugs hardware rather than managing purely from a distance.\n\n - Deep, hands-on experience with EtherCAT (topology, distributed-clock sync, PDO mapping) for distributed actuation and sensing.\n\n - Mastery of at least one core domain—power electronics/motor drives or sensor/mixed-signal front-ends—with broad fluency across both.\n\n - Strong grasp of high-current power architectures, rail partitioning, budgeting, and circuit protection (OVP/UVP/OCP/OTP).\n\n - Solid command of EMI/EMC, grounding, and ESD mitigation in noisy, motor-dense environments.\n\n - Fluency with high-speed serial interfaces and protocols (SPI, I2C, UART, PMBus), plus enough firmware literacy to debug hardware boundaries.\n\n - Proven experience mentoring engineers, managing risk, and driving multi-board hardware projects through volume manufacturing.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"5ed7f0f6-fb88-4523-b406-9bcf96407a15","title":"Tech Lead Manager","department":"Software Engineering","team":"Software Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Normal, IL","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-10-21T23:10:29.728+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"postalCode":"61761","addressRegion":"IL","streetAddress":"100 Rivian Motorway","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Normal"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/5ed7f0f6-fb88-4523-b406-9bcf96407a15","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/5ed7f0f6-fb88-4523-b406-9bcf96407a15/application","descriptionHtml":"<h2><strong>About Mind:</strong></h2><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h2><strong>About the team and the role:</strong></h2><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">We're hiring an Onsite Engineering Manager to lead our forward deployed and software engineering  team at a key customer in Normal, IL. You'll own two things at once: the health of our fleet of data collection devices, and the engineers who keep it running. <strong>This role will start with critical robot data collection devices and then transition into robot deployment support.</strong></p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">You are the seam between the customer and HQ. Onsite, you're the senior technical voice the customer trusts when something breaks. At HQ, you're the person who turns field pain into a roadmap. You'll manage a small team of Forward Deployed and Software Engineers, own the escalation path into HQ engineering, and decide what gets patched in the field versus fixed in the product.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">This is a hands-on management role. The right person can sit beside an engineer reading logs in the morning and renegotiate a deployment timeline with a customer lead in the afternoon.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h2><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></h2><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Lead and grow the onsite team of Forward Deployed Engineers and SW engineers — hiring, onboarding, 1:1s, performance, and coverage across the customer's operating hours.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Own fleet reliability as a number: define the uptime, data-capture, and time-to-resolution targets the team is measured against, and run the dashboards and reviews that keep them honest.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Set the technical bar onsite for provisioning, diagnostics, and networking — standard runbooks, repeatable device bring-up, and postmortems that actually close.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Own the senior technical relationship with the customer: scope new requests, communicate incidents and timelines, and push back when a request doesn't fit.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Run the escalation path into HQ engineering — triage what the field absorbs versus what becomes a product fix, and represent the field in roadmap and prioritization.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Stay hands-on. When a device, network, or deployment problem outruns the team, you're in it with them. You are comfortable with coding and work with your team to build and review PRs.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Lead trialing and testing of images, bug fixes and feature development work with offsite teams to bring in changes faster</p></li></ul><h2><strong>Requirements:</strong></h2><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">3+ years managing engineers — field, hardware, infrastructure, or platform — including hiring, coaching, and growth</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Deep hands-on troubleshooting background with embedded devices, single-board computers, cameras, or similar hardware; enough depth to review an engineer's diagnosis rather than take it on faith.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Comfort with Linux system administration and Bash or Python: you can still read a systemd unit, a provisioning script, or a tcpdump capture yourself.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Solid networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, subnets, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, firewall rules) and the judgment to tell our problem from the customer's network.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Customer-facing maturity: you can own a hard conversation about an outage or a slipped date without spending the relationship.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">The self-direction to run a site away from HQ, and the discipline to keep HQ informed before they have to ask.</p></li></ul><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience standing up or scaling a forward deployed, field service, or solutions engineering team (nice to have).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Prior time as a Forward Deployed Engineer or in a similar onsite role — you've done the job you're now managing (nice to have).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Familiarity with fleet and infrastructure tooling: Docker, Portainer, Ansible, Grafana/Prometheus, remote device management (nice to have).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Background in robotics deployment, computer vision systems, IP cameras, or industrial IoT (nice to have).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience running incident response and postmortem practice across a distributed fleet (nice to have).</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><br /></p>","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MIND:\n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE TEAM AND THE ROLE:\n\nWe're hiring an Onsite Engineering Manager to lead our forward deployed and software engineering  team at a key customer in Normal, IL. You'll own two things at once: the health of our fleet of data collection devices, and the engineers who keep it running. This role will start with critical robot data collection devices and then transition into robot deployment support.\n\nYou are the seam between the customer and HQ. Onsite, you're the senior technical voice the customer trusts when something breaks. At HQ, you're the person who turns field pain into a roadmap. You'll manage a small team of Forward Deployed and Software Engineers, own the escalation path into HQ engineering, and decide what gets patched in the field versus fixed in the product.\n\nThis is a hands-on management role. The right person can sit beside an engineer reading logs in the morning and renegotiate a deployment timeline with a customer lead in the afternoon.\n\n\n\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES:\n\n - Lead and grow the onsite team of Forward Deployed Engineers and SW engineers — hiring, onboarding, 1:1s, performance, and coverage across the customer's operating hours.\n\n - Own fleet reliability as a number: define the uptime, data-capture, and time-to-resolution targets the team is measured against, and run the dashboards and reviews that keep them honest.\n\n - Set the technical bar onsite for provisioning, diagnostics, and networking — standard runbooks, repeatable device bring-up, and postmortems that actually close.\n\n - Own the senior technical relationship with the customer: scope new requests, communicate incidents and timelines, and push back when a request doesn't fit.\n\n - Run the escalation path into HQ engineering — triage what the field absorbs versus what becomes a product fix, and represent the field in roadmap and prioritization.\n\n - Stay hands-on. When a device, network, or deployment problem outruns the team, you're in it with them. You are comfortable with coding and work with your team to build and review PRs.\n\n - Lead trialing and testing of images, bug fixes and feature development work with offsite teams to bring in changes faster\n\n\nREQUIREMENTS:\n\n - 3+ years managing engineers — field, hardware, infrastructure, or platform — including hiring, coaching, and growth\n\n - Deep hands-on troubleshooting background with embedded devices, single-board computers, cameras, or similar hardware; enough depth to review an engineer's diagnosis rather than take it on faith.\n\n - Comfort with Linux system administration and Bash or Python: you can still read a systemd unit, a provisioning script, or a tcpdump capture yourself.\n\n - Solid networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, subnets, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, firewall rules) and the judgment to tell our problem from the customer's network.\n\n - Customer-facing maturity: you can own a hard conversation about an outage or a slipped date without spending the relationship.\n\n - The self-direction to run a site away from HQ, and the discipline to keep HQ informed before they have to ask.\n\n - Experience standing up or scaling a forward deployed, field service, or solutions engineering team (nice to have).\n\n - Prior time as a Forward Deployed Engineer or in a similar onsite role — you've done the job you're now managing (nice to have).\n\n - Familiarity with fleet and infrastructure tooling: Docker, Portainer, Ansible, Grafana/Prometheus, remote device management (nice to have).\n\n - Background in robotics deployment, computer vision systems, IP cameras, or industrial IoT (nice to have).\n\n - Experience running incident response and postmortem practice across a distributed fleet (nice to have).\n\n\n","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"7d009e77-9b6d-417c-a0a2-fde94587e1f1","title":"Simulation and Validation Software Engineer","department":"Software Engineering","team":"Software Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-08-13T20:26:09.344+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/7d009e77-9b6d-417c-a0a2-fde94587e1f1","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/7d009e77-9b6d-417c-a0a2-fde94587e1f1/application","descriptionHtml":"<h3><strong>About Mind:</strong></h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. 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Closing the gap between simulation, hardware test, and the real robot is what makes that reliability possible.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">We're looking for a Software Engineer - Validation &amp; Simulation to build the test infrastructure, integrate simulation, and develop validation pipelines that let our firmware, controls, and robot runtime teams move fast without breaking robots.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Design and build automated test suites that validate firmware, controls, and runtime behavior across software-in-the-loop (SIL) environments.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Integrate simulation environment inputs and dynamic models that stand in for the real robot — including simulated sensor inputs like camera feeds — so runtime and middleware teams can develop without physical hardware.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Own regression test infrastructure and tooling for result analysis, failure triage, and coverage tracking across firmware, controls, runtime, and hardware.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Collaborate with firmware, controls, and runtime engineers to define testability requirements and turn real-world failures into repeatable automated test cases.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Drive validation burn-down during integration and assembly milestones, tracking issues to closure across teams.</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3><strong>Requirements:</strong></h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Technical degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience and evidence of exceptional ability.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong software engineering fundamentals, with fluency in Python and comfort in C/C++ or Rust for debugging at the firmware level.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Demonstrated experience building validation, simulation, or test infrastructure for real physical systems — robots, motors, actuators, or similar.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">You are comfortable with ambiguity, move fast, and have an \"engineering curiosity\" that drives you to understand how the entire system works, not just your part.</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3><strong>Nice to Haves:</strong></h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience validating or testing robotics middleware or runtime systems (ROS2 or similar).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with dynamic modeling or simulation tools (MATLAB/Simulink, MuJoCo, Gazebo, or equivalent) for robotic or actuated systems.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Familiarity with functional safety standards (IEC 61508, ISO 13849, ISO 26262, or similar) and safety validation processes.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Comfort with lab equipment (oscilloscopes, power supplies, logic analyzers) and embedded debugging tools (JTAG, SWD).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with agent-driven coding practices (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) to accelerate test and software development.</p></li></ul>","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MIND:\n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE TEAM AND THE ROLE:\n\nAt Mind Robotics, we're building generalized physical AI — robotic systems capable of dexterous, adaptive, and reasoning-intensive work in real-world industrial environments. Validation is how we make sure our robots actually work — not just once on a bench, but every time, on every robot, in the field. Closing the gap between simulation, hardware test, and the real robot is what makes that reliability possible.\n\nWe're looking for a Software Engineer - Validation & Simulation to build the test infrastructure, integrate simulation, and develop validation pipelines that let our firmware, controls, and robot runtime teams move fast without breaking robots.\n\n\n\nResponsibilities:\n\n - Design and build automated test suites that validate firmware, controls, and runtime behavior across software-in-the-loop (SIL) environments.\n\n - Integrate simulation environment inputs and dynamic models that stand in for the real robot — including simulated sensor inputs like camera feeds — so runtime and middleware teams can develop without physical hardware.\n\n - Own regression test infrastructure and tooling for result analysis, failure triage, and coverage tracking across firmware, controls, runtime, and hardware.\n\n - Collaborate with firmware, controls, and runtime engineers to define testability requirements and turn real-world failures into repeatable automated test cases.\n\n - Drive validation burn-down during integration and assembly milestones, tracking issues to closure across teams.\n\n\n\n\nREQUIREMENTS:\n\n - Technical degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience and evidence of exceptional ability.\n\n - Strong software engineering fundamentals, with fluency in Python and comfort in C/C++ or Rust for debugging at the firmware level.\n\n - Demonstrated experience building validation, simulation, or test infrastructure for real physical systems — robots, motors, actuators, or similar.\n\n - You are comfortable with ambiguity, move fast, and have an \"engineering curiosity\" that drives you to understand how the entire system works, not just your part.\n\n\n\n\nNICE TO HAVES:\n\n - Experience validating or testing robotics middleware or runtime systems (ROS2 or similar).\n\n - Experience with dynamic modeling or simulation tools (MATLAB/Simulink, MuJoCo, Gazebo, or equivalent) for robotic or actuated systems.\n\n - Familiarity with functional safety standards (IEC 61508, ISO 13849, ISO 26262, or similar) and safety validation processes.\n\n - Comfort with lab equipment (oscilloscopes, power supplies, logic analyzers) and embedded debugging tools (JTAG, SWD).\n\n - Experience with agent-driven coding practices (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) to accelerate test and software development.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"650f3210-ec59-485c-ac2e-38c4bf75265a","title":"Field Technician, Data Collection","department":"Data Flywheel","team":"Data Flywheel","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Normal, IL","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-10-09T17:45:09.258+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"postalCode":"61761","addressRegion":"IL","streetAddress":"100 Rivian Motorway","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Normal"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/650f3210-ec59-485c-ac2e-38c4bf75265a","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/650f3210-ec59-485c-ac2e-38c4bf75265a/application","descriptionHtml":"<h3><strong>About Mind:</strong></h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. 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Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">The Role</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Our data collection operation at the Rivian manufacturing facility in Normal, IL runs on the work of our Field Technicians. You are the reason our cameras are online, our docking stations are healthy, and our data pipeline stays intact across every shift. When something breaks, you're the first response.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">This is a hands-on role in a live industrial environment. You won't be sitting at a desk. You'll be walking the floor, working with your hands, troubleshooting real problems in real time, and logging what you find so the engineering team can act on it. 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You keep downtime short and document what happened so we don't see the same issue twice.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Light assembly (&lt; 50 units) and repair.</strong> Perform basic assembly, hardware repair, and equipment upkeep as needed. You're comfortable working with consumer electronics and comfortable learning new hardware quickly.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Process observation and feedback.</strong> You're on the floor every shift, which means you see things engineers working remotely don't. We want your observations — friction points, recurring issues, ideas for how stations or workflows could be improved — logged and reported consistently.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>On-floor communication.</strong> When someone at the factory has questions about what we're doing or why, you're often the one answering. You explain it clearly and represent the team well.</p></li></ul><h3><strong>Requirements:</strong></h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Someone who takes ownership of their tasks without being asked. You notice when something is off and you do something about it.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Comfortable with consumer electronics — cameras, charging systems, basic cabling. You don't need to be an engineer, but you need to be someone who figures things out.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Physically able to walk an active factory floor throughout a full shift. This is a standing, moving role in an industrial environment.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">A clear, timely communicator. You escalate problems fast, log them accurately, and give your supervisor the context they need to act. You don't sit on an issue.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Friendly and approachable. You're comfortable talking to people you don't know, and you can explain technical or unfamiliar work in a way that puts people at ease.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Reliable and consistent. Our operation runs on shifts, and the team depends on you showing up prepared and ready.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Comfortable in a fast-moving, sometimes ambiguous environment. Things change on a factory floor. We want someone who adapts without losing their attention to detail.</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p>","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MIND:\n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE TEAM AND THE ROLE:\n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.\n\nThe Role\n\nOur data collection operation at the Rivian manufacturing facility in Normal, IL runs on the work of our Field Technicians. You are the reason our cameras are online, our docking stations are healthy, and our data pipeline stays intact across every shift. When something breaks, you're the first response.\n\nThis is a hands-on role in a live industrial environment. You won't be sitting at a desk. 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We're looking for a <strong>DevOps Engineer</strong> to build and operate the infrastructure that enables engineers to develop, test, deploy, and monitor robotic systems reliably at scale.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">You'll work across software, ML, and robotics teams to automate infrastructure, streamline deployments, improve developer productivity, and ensure our robots can be continuously updated and monitored both in the lab and in production.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Design, deploy, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure using AWS, GCP, or Azure.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or similar tools.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Develop CI/CD pipelines for robotics software, embedded applications, and machine learning workflows.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Automate software deployment across development robots, test environments, and production fleets.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Improve build systems, artifact management, release processes, and version control workflows.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Manage Kubernetes clusters and containerized services supporting robotics applications.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Monitor infrastructure health, application performance, and production systems using modern observability tools.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Improve system reliability, uptime, security, and disaster recovery processes.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build internal developer tooling that increases engineering productivity.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Partner with robotics, firmware, and ML teams to create reproducible development environments.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Support simulation infrastructure and large-scale testing pipelines.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Optimize cloud resource utilization and infrastructure costs.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Implement security best practices for infrastructure, secrets management, networking, and access controls.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous operational improvements.</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3><strong>Requirements:</strong></h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">4+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong experience administering Linux systems.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with Kubernetes and Docker in production environments.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform preferred).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience building CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Buildkite, or similar platforms.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with configuration management and automation tools.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Proficiency with Python, Go, or Bash for infrastructure automation.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience implementing monitoring and logging solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, OpenTelemetry, etc.).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong understanding of networking, security, authentication, and distributed systems.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience troubleshooting production systems under operational constraints.</p></li></ul><h2></h2><h3><strong>Nice to haves:</strong></h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience supporting robotics, autonomous systems, or embedded software teams.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience deploying software to fleets of physical devices.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience supporting GPU infrastructure and ML training clusters.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA environments, or distributed training systems.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience managing artifact repositories and large binary assets.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience supporting simulation environments.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Knowledge of software supply chain security and SBOMs.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with edge computing or IoT deployments.</p></li></ul>","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MIND:\n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE TEAM AND THE ROLE:\n\nAt Mind Robotics, we're building generalized physical AI—robotic systems capable of dexterous, adaptive, and reasoning-intensive work in real-world industrial environments.\n\nOur robots rely on a sophisticated software platform that spans cloud infrastructure, robotics middleware, simulation, machine learning, and deployment to physical hardware. We're looking for a DevOps Engineer to build and operate the infrastructure that enables engineers to develop, test, deploy, and monitor robotic systems reliably at scale.\n\nYou'll work across software, ML, and robotics teams to automate infrastructure, streamline deployments, improve developer productivity, and ensure our robots can be continuously updated and monitored both in the lab and in production.\n\n\n\nResponsibilities:\n\n - Design, deploy, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure using AWS, GCP, or Azure.\n\n - Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or similar tools.\n\n - Develop CI/CD pipelines for robotics software, embedded applications, and machine learning workflows.\n\n - Automate software deployment across development robots, test environments, and production fleets.\n\n - Improve build systems, artifact management, release processes, and version control workflows.\n\n - Manage Kubernetes clusters and containerized services supporting robotics applications.\n\n - Monitor infrastructure health, application performance, and production systems using modern observability tools.\n\n - Improve system reliability, uptime, security, and disaster recovery processes.\n\n - Build internal developer tooling that increases engineering productivity.\n\n - Partner with robotics, firmware, and ML teams to create reproducible development environments.\n\n - Support simulation infrastructure and large-scale testing pipelines.\n\n - Optimize cloud resource utilization and infrastructure costs.\n\n - Implement security best practices for infrastructure, secrets management, networking, and access controls.\n\n - Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous operational improvements.\n\n\n\n\nREQUIREMENTS:\n\n - 4+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.\n\n - Strong experience administering Linux systems.\n\n - Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.\n\n - Experience with Kubernetes and Docker in production environments.\n\n - Strong Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform preferred).\n\n - Experience building CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Buildkite, or similar platforms.\n\n - Experience with configuration management and automation tools.\n\n - Proficiency with Python, Go, or Bash for infrastructure automation.\n\n - Experience implementing monitoring and logging solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, OpenTelemetry, etc.).\n\n - Strong understanding of networking, security, authentication, and distributed systems.\n\n - Experience troubleshooting production systems under operational constraints.\n\n\n\n\n\nNICE TO HAVES:\n\n - Experience supporting robotics, autonomous systems, or embedded software teams.\n\n - Experience deploying software to fleets of physical devices.\n\n - Experience supporting GPU infrastructure and ML training clusters.\n\n - Experience with NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA environments, or distributed training systems.\n\n - Experience managing artifact repositories and large binary assets.\n\n - Experience supporting simulation environments.\n\n - Knowledge of software supply chain security and SBOMs.\n\n - Experience with edge computing or IoT deployments.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"2ba8accd-e97e-49b3-aa3f-1f2f2ad09c04","title":"System Integration Engineer","department":"Software Engineering","team":"Software Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-08-26T00:27:35.269+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/2ba8accd-e97e-49b3-aa3f-1f2f2ad09c04","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/2ba8accd-e97e-49b3-aa3f-1f2f2ad09c04/application","descriptionHtml":"<h3><strong>About Mind:</strong></h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. 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Integration is where it all comes together: the moment mechanical, electrical, firmware, controls, and software stop being separate subsystems and have to behave as one robot.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">We're looking for a System Integration Engineer to own bring-up and debug across the robot — from first power-on of a new subsystem to the hard interactions that only surface when everything is running together. 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We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.\n\n \n\n\nTHE ROLE:\n\nAt Mind Robotics, we're building generalized physical AI — robotic systems capable of dexterous, adaptive, and reasoning-intensive work in real-world industrial environments. Deploying robots in real factories, reliably and safely, depends on the infrastructure that ships software to them, validates it before it goes live, and tells us when something's wrong once it's out there.\n\nWe're looking for a Tech Lead to own software systems for fleet deployment, CI/CD infrastructure, and observability for our field-deployed robots. This is an IC-heavy role: you're building these systems yourself. \nA DevOps engineer will support you in this work.\nThis is a role for someone who wants to make our deployed robots more capable and our engineers more effective, by owning the hardest problems in getting robotics software safely and reliably into production at scale.\n\n\n\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES:\n\n - Architect fleet-wide deployment: OTA package delivery, versioned rollouts, staged/canary release, rollback strategies, and configuration management across heterogeneous robot hardware in the field, working with the firmware team, who own the on-robot update process\n\n - Build observability for the fleet: diagnostics, monitoring, and alerting that surface robot and deployment issues early, with the logging infrastructure and visualization tooling behind them\n\n - Own the build system (Bazel, SCons, Buck2, or similar) that produces reproducible, versioned software packages for engineering use and production robot deployment, including dependency management and build performance\n\n - Contribute to and interface with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and software-in-the-loop (SIL) test infrastructure, and build the pre-deployment validation gates that use its results to catch failures before they reach a live site\n\n - Build and evolve the fleet management platform to track robot inventory, software/config versions, health state, and deployment status across every unit and site\n\n - Own CI/CD pipelines that gate deployment on more than unit tests, from build system through OTA package creation, deployment, and status monitoring\n\n - Set technical standards and do deep design/code review across deployment, testing, and dev ops\n\n\n\n\n\nREQUIREMENTS:\n\n - Strong software engineering in Python and/or Rust/C++, with experience building tooling and services that improve developer productivity\n\n - Experience building backend services and APIs for device fleets: artifact storage, OTA package creation, versioning schemes, staged rollout and rollback orchestration, device state tracking, and remote configuration management across many physical devices\n\n - Experience with system test infrastructure for hardware-attached software — hardware-in-the-loop testing, simulation-based regression suites (Isaac Sim, Gazebo, MuJoCo, or similar), and CI/CD pipelines that gate on more than unit tests\n\n - Observability engineering for edge/field deployments: telemetry pipelines, structured logging, and alerting\n\n - Build and packaging systems (Bazel, SCons, Buck2, or similar), containerization, and edge orchestration (Docker, and edge-appropriate orchestration/agent frameworks) for building and deploying software onto heterogeneous robot compute\n\n - Track record of taking deployment/testing systems from ad hoc to reliable, repeatable process as the number of deployed units and sites grows\n\n\n\n\n\nNICE TO HAVE:\n\n - Exposure to functional safety concepts relevant to physical systems\n\n - Background in electric vehicle OTA, industrial IoT, or other domains with similar field-reliability and fleet-management constraints\n\n - Experience scaling deployment/testing infrastructure","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"ab9a9fe3-ada1-4621-b762-f8cae0be39b0","title":"Mechanical Design Engineer, Plastics","department":"Hardware Engineering","team":"Hardware Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-09-29T22:16:01.822+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/ab9a9fe3-ada1-4621-b762-f8cae0be39b0","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/ab9a9fe3-ada1-4621-b762-f8cae0be39b0/application","descriptionHtml":"<h3><strong>About Mind:</strong></h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. 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You understand how polymers flow, shrink, warp, and fail — and you can predict it before the tool is cut.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">5+ years designing injection-molded plastic parts for high-volume consumer, automotive, or robotics products, with parts you took from CAD through production tooling.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Deep, hands-on knowledge of polymer materials science: resin families, fillers and additives, anisotropy, moisture sensitivity, and how process conditions change part behavior.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Fluent in GD&amp;T (ASME Y14.5 or ISO GPS) and tolerance analysis, including worst-case and statistical stack-ups on compliant plastic parts.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Proven experience owning cosmetic A-surface parts and defending appearance standards with vendors.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong surfacing skills in SolidWorks, CATIA, NX, Creo, or similar; comfort reading mold flow results and tool drawings.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Comfortable with ambiguity, moves fast, and curious about how the whole system works.</p></li></ul>","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MIND:\n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems.\n\n\n\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Own the mechanical design of A-surface plastic components for the robot — covers, skins, shrouds, bezels, and cosmetic enclosures — from industrial design intent through production tooling.\n\n - Develop Class-A surfaces and translate ID surfacing into manufacturable parts, holding gap-and-flush, parting line, draft, and aesthetic intent across the full assembly.\n\n - Select polymers and processes across the cosmetic stack: ABS, PC, PC/ABS, PA and glass-filled grades, TPU/TPE, and specialty resins — balancing appearance, impact and creep behavior, chemical and UV resistance, flammability, and cost.\n\n - Define and own GD&T, tolerance stack-ups, and datum schemes across multi-part plastic assemblies and their interfaces to structures, actuators, and electronics.\n\n - Drive DFM and DFA for injection molding, insert molding, overmolding, and secondary operations — gate and ejector strategy, wall thickness, ribbing and boss design, warp and sink mitigation, and shutoff design.\n\n - Own cosmetic specification: textures, gloss levels, color matching, painting, plating, laser etching, and in-mold decoration, plus the defect standards and limit samples that go with them.\n\n - Work directly with tool shops, molders, and CMs through tool kickoff, T0/T1 sampling, tuning, and PPAP — reviewing mold flow, tool design, and first-shot parts, and driving corrective action.\n\n - Build and test prototypes using 3D printing, urethane casting, CNC, and soft tooling, then validate with drop, structural, and environmental testing.\n   \n   \n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n - Exceptional mechanical intuition. You understand how polymers flow, shrink, warp, and fail — and you can predict it before the tool is cut.\n\n - 5+ years designing injection-molded plastic parts for high-volume consumer, automotive, or robotics products, with parts you took from CAD through production tooling.\n\n - Deep, hands-on knowledge of polymer materials science: resin families, fillers and additives, anisotropy, moisture sensitivity, and how process conditions change part behavior.\n\n - Fluent in GD&T (ASME Y14.5 or ISO GPS) and tolerance analysis, including worst-case and statistical stack-ups on compliant plastic parts.\n\n - Proven experience owning cosmetic A-surface parts and defending appearance standards with vendors.\n\n - Strong surfacing skills in SolidWorks, CATIA, NX, Creo, or similar; comfort reading mold flow results and tool drawings.\n\n - Comfortable with ambiguity, moves fast, and curious about how the whole system works.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"0aed1db9-1f0a-4e59-973b-62600a59b7de","title":"Supplier Industrialization Engineer","department":"Operations","team":"Operations","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-08-31T18:50:53.726+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/0aed1db9-1f0a-4e59-973b-62600a59b7de","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/0aed1db9-1f0a-4e59-973b-62600a59b7de/application","descriptionHtml":"<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>About Mind:</strong></p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>About the team and the role:</strong></p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">We're building robots for industrial deployment that push the limits of what hardware can do - and the electronics inside them have to survive the real world, at scale, from suppliers who've never built anything quite like this before. We need someone who has industrialized components in the trenches: walked the SMT lines, run the PPAPs, and carried a design from first prototype to a ramp that didn't fall over.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">You'll help build our supplier industrialization function from scratch - the process, the supplier base - while staying hands-on with the parts. You'll own PCBA, electronics, and tactile sensing to start, embedded with our engineering team from the first schematic review. As we scale, so does the scope: this role can grow into leading the SIE organization, or into a senior technical authority on manufacturability for someone who wants to stay deep. We're open to both.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build the supplier industrialization function from the ground up: define the SI playbook, stage-gate requirements, supplier readiness criteria, and the full PPAP/qualification process (control plans, pFMEA, MSA/Gage R&amp;R, capability studies, first-article inspection, run-at-rate) appropriate for a company moving from prototype builds to volume production</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Own industrialization end-to-end for PCBAs, electronic assemblies, and tactile sensing components, from supplier selection through process development, qualification, launch, and ramp</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Engage with electrical, mechanical, and firmware engineering from the design phase: drive DFM/DFA/DFT reviews, influence component selection, stack-ups, panelization, and test strategy early enough to actually change the design, not just react to it</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Identify, assess, and select suppliers: lead technical audits of manufacturing capability, quality systems, process maturity, and capacity; make clear-eyed calls on who can scale with us and who can't</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Travel to supplier sites (CMs/CEMs, PCB fabs, sensor manufacturers) to develop processes, validate lines, resolve issues, and verify manufacturing readiness firsthand</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Lead new product introduction at supplier sites: process development and validation, SMT line bring-up, test correlation, yield improvement, and launch readiness for each build stage (EVT/DVT/PVT to production)</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Develop and execute the supply chain readiness plan to scale electronics from tens of prototype units to hundreds and thousands of production units, including tooling, test fixtures, and capacity planning</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Establish supplier quality management: incoming quality criteria, SPC deployment, root-cause/corrective action (8D/RCCA) on process and field failures, and ongoing supplier performance reviews</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Work hand-in-hand with our sourcing/GSM function on supplier strategy, should-cost input, make-vs-buy decisions, and risk mitigation (dual-sourcing, alternate qualification)</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Set the foundation for the SI team: define hiring needs by commodity as we grow, and build the systems and documentation that let the function scale beyond one person</p></li></ul><div style=\"min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px\"> </div><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Requirements:</strong></p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">You've built or significantly shaped an SI, SQE, or NPI function before. You know what it means to operate without a playbook because you've written one, not just followed it</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">7+ years in supplier industrialization, supplier quality, NPI, or manufacturing engineering in hardware-intensive industries such as robotics, consumer electronics, automotive, or aerospace</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Working knowledge of IPC standards and PCB fabrication processes; experience with flex and rigid-flex circuits or sensor integration (tactile, force, capacitive, camera modules) is a strong plus</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Fluent in the industrialization toolkit: PPAP, APQP, pFMEA, control plans, SPC, MSA/Gage R&amp;R, DOE, capability analysis (Cpk), 8D/RCCA</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Hands-on experience taking products through the prototype-to-production transition, including EVT/DVT/PVT builds, tooling and test fixture qualification, run-at-rate, and ramp</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Engineering degree (Electrical, Mechanical, or similar) and the ability to read schematics, layouts, and drawings well enough to hold your own in design reviews with the engineers who made them</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience auditing and developing suppliers directly, including CMs/CEMs and component manufacturers worldover</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Comfortable operating as both architect and operator: setting up systems one day, debugging a PCBA failure at a supplier the next</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">You thrive in ambiguity, default to urgency, and have the drive to build - not just maintain</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with tactile sensing or other high-mix sensor manufacturing (is a plus)</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience in humanoid or mobile robotics, or other high-complexity electromechanical systems (is a plus)</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Six Sigma / Lean certification, ASQ CQE, or equivalent (is a plus)</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience hiring and leading the SIE or SQE function (is a plus)</p></li></ul><div style=\"min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px\"> </div>","descriptionPlain":"About Mind:\n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.\n\n\n\nAbout the team and the role:\n\nWe're building robots for industrial deployment that push the limits of what hardware can do - and the electronics inside them have to survive the real world, at scale, from suppliers who've never built anything quite like this before. We need someone who has industrialized components in the trenches: walked the SMT lines, run the PPAPs, and carried a design from first prototype to a ramp that didn't fall over.\n\nYou'll help build our supplier industrialization function from scratch - the process, the supplier base - while staying hands-on with the parts. You'll own PCBA, electronics, and tactile sensing to start, embedded with our engineering team from the first schematic review. As we scale, so does the scope: this role can grow into leading the SIE organization, or into a senior technical authority on manufacturability for someone who wants to stay deep. We're open to both.\n\n\n\nResponsibilities:\n\n - Build the supplier industrialization function from the ground up: define the SI playbook, stage-gate requirements, supplier readiness criteria, and the full PPAP/qualification process (control plans, pFMEA, MSA/Gage R&R, capability studies, first-article inspection, run-at-rate) appropriate for a company moving from prototype builds to volume production\n\n - Own industrialization end-to-end for PCBAs, electronic assemblies, and tactile sensing components, from supplier selection through process development, qualification, launch, and ramp\n\n - Engage with electrical, mechanical, and firmware engineering from the design phase: drive DFM/DFA/DFT reviews, influence component selection, stack-ups, panelization, and test strategy early enough to actually change the design, not just react to it\n\n - Identify, assess, and select suppliers: lead technical audits of manufacturing capability, quality systems, process maturity, and capacity; make clear-eyed calls on who can scale with us and who can't\n\n - Travel to supplier sites (CMs/CEMs, PCB fabs, sensor manufacturers) to develop processes, validate lines, resolve issues, and verify manufacturing readiness firsthand\n\n - Lead new product introduction at supplier sites: process development and validation, SMT line bring-up, test correlation, yield improvement, and launch readiness for each build stage (EVT/DVT/PVT to production)\n\n - Develop and execute the supply chain readiness plan to scale electronics from tens of prototype units to hundreds and thousands of production units, including tooling, test fixtures, and capacity planning\n\n - Establish supplier quality management: incoming quality criteria, SPC deployment, root-cause/corrective action (8D/RCCA) on process and field failures, and ongoing supplier performance reviews\n\n - Work hand-in-hand with our sourcing/GSM function on supplier strategy, should-cost input, make-vs-buy decisions, and risk mitigation (dual-sourcing, alternate qualification)\n\n - Set the foundation for the SI team: define hiring needs by commodity as we grow, and build the systems and documentation that let the function scale beyond one person\n\n \n\nRequirements:\n\n - You've built or significantly shaped an SI, SQE, or NPI function before. 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You will move fluidly between designing test fixtures, building test stands, and running the characterization tests that drive our actuator selection and sizing decisions.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Responsibilities </strong></p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Design and build the dynamometer test systems, including mechanical driveline, load application, and sensor integration (torque, position, thermal).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Design and fabricate test fixtures and stands for actuator, gearbox, and driveline validation, producing accurate 2D drawings with GD&amp;T (ASME Y14.5) for tight tolerances and proper fits.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Run tests on actuators to characterize torque, speed, efficiency, thermal performance, stiffness, friction, bandwidth, life-cycle, backlash, and torque sensor accuracy.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Support electromechanical integration of motors, encoders, torque sensors, and other components onto test rigs.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Generate and visualize the data that drives actuator selection and sizing decisions</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build repeatable test procedures and data pipelines that scale from a single actuator on a bench to characterizing units across the fleet.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Quantify unit-to-unit variation, track drift and wear over time, and flag outlier units.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Perform post-test teardown inspections (gear wear, bearing wear, lubrication condition, wiring/sensor integrity) and document findings rigorously.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Qualifications </strong></p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">3+ years of hands-on experience testing and characterizing real electromechanical or robotic hardware.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Demonstrated ability to design and build test hardware such as fixtures, stands, and drivelines from concept through fabrication.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Proficiency with 3D CAD and the ability to generate 2D drawings with GD&amp;T per ASME Y14.5.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Solid grasp of actuator fundamentals: motors, gear transmissions (planetary, harmonic/strain-wave, cycloidal), encoders, torque/force sensors, and thermal behavior.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with dynamometer setups or equivalent custom test rigs, from concept through fabrication.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related field — or equivalent hands-on experience.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Ability to write and maintain clean test documentation and procedures.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Bonus Qualifications:</strong></p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with planetary, harmonic/strain-wave, and cycloidal actuators specifically, and familiarity with the tradeoffs between them.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience scaling test or calibration pipelines across a large fleet of test systems.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Manufacturing process familiarity and first-article inspection experience.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with CATIA V6</p></li></ul>","descriptionPlain":"About Mind\n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.\n\nAbout the Role\n\nAs an Actuator Test Engineer on our team, you will build the dynamometer test infrastructure to verify how every actuator we put on the robot actually performs. You will move fluidly between designing test fixtures, building test stands, and running the characterization tests that drive our actuator selection and sizing decisions.\n\n\n\nResponsibilities \n\n - Design and build the dynamometer test systems, including mechanical driveline, load application, and sensor integration (torque, position, thermal).\n\n - Design and fabricate test fixtures and stands for actuator, gearbox, and driveline validation, producing accurate 2D drawings with GD&T (ASME Y14.5) for tight tolerances and proper fits.\n\n - Run tests on actuators to characterize torque, speed, efficiency, thermal performance, stiffness, friction, bandwidth, life-cycle, backlash, and torque sensor accuracy.\n\n - Support electromechanical integration of motors, encoders, torque sensors, and other components onto test rigs.\n\n - Generate and visualize the data that drives actuator selection and sizing decisions\n\n - Build repeatable test procedures and data pipelines that scale from a single actuator on a bench to characterizing units across the fleet.\n\n - Quantify unit-to-unit variation, track drift and wear over time, and flag outlier units.\n\n - Perform post-test teardown inspections (gear wear, bearing wear, lubrication condition, wiring/sensor integrity) and document findings rigorously.\n   \n   \n\nQualifications \n\n - 3+ years of hands-on experience testing and characterizing real electromechanical or robotic hardware.\n\n - Demonstrated ability to design and build test hardware such as fixtures, stands, and drivelines from concept through fabrication.\n\n - Proficiency with 3D CAD and the ability to generate 2D drawings with GD&T per ASME Y14.5.\n\n - Solid grasp of actuator fundamentals: motors, gear transmissions (planetary, harmonic/strain-wave, cycloidal), encoders, torque/force sensors, and thermal behavior.\n\n - Experience with dynamometer setups or equivalent custom test rigs, from concept through fabrication.\n\n - Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related field — or equivalent hands-on experience.\n\n - Ability to write and maintain clean test documentation and procedures.\n   \n   \n\nBonus Qualifications:\n\n - Experience with planetary, harmonic/strain-wave, and cycloidal actuators specifically, and familiarity with the tradeoffs between them.\n\n - Experience scaling test or calibration pipelines across a large fleet of test systems.\n\n - Manufacturing process familiarity and first-article inspection experience.\n\n - Experience with CATIA V6","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"0d99362e-37d5-42d1-b364-3ccffbd600ee","title":"IT Operations Lead","department":"Operations","team":"Operations","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-09-08T06:25:17.091+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/0d99362e-37d5-42d1-b364-3ccffbd600ee","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/0d99362e-37d5-42d1-b364-3ccffbd600ee/application","descriptionHtml":"<h2>About the team and the role</h2><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mind Robotics is building intelligent robotic systems. Our work happens on-site across active hardware labs, test floors, and compute environments where hardware and software iterate together daily.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">As our first dedicated IT hire, you will build and own our IT operations end to end. You’ll be responsible for making sure our teams never lose momentum to tooling, identity, device, or network issues, whether that means troubleshooting a Linux/driver setup in the lab, setting up zero-touch laptop provisioning for new hires, or ensuring our test-floor Wi-Fi can handle high-throughput robot telemetry.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">We believe modern IT should be built for extreme leverage. In this role, you will actively use AI agents and build agentic workflows (leveraging LLMs, MCP, and API integrations) to automate support intake, triage, provisioning, access approvals, and system reconciliation. You'll build an AI-native IT foundation that keeps operations fast, lean, and scalable without scaling support headcount.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h2>Responsibilities</h2><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Own internal IT &amp; support: Be the primary technical point of contact for the team. Establish a lightweight, responsive support workflow that unblocks engineers quickly without unnecessary red tape.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build agentic automations &amp; workflows: Leverage AI coding agents and LLM-driven workflows (via APIs, MCP, webhooks) to automate repetitive IT operations: such as intelligent ticket triage, access requests, onboarding/off-boarding, and system reconciliation.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Manage identity, access, and endpoints: Administer our core SaaS, identity, and access stack (Google Workspace / IdP) and deploy modern MDM (e.g., Fleet, Jamf) for zero-touch provisioning and fleet visibility across macOS, Windows, and Linux machines.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Support robotics lab &amp; compute infrastructure: Help maintain our lab workstation fleet (Ubuntu boxes, test bench PCs), keeping configurations reliable and reproducible.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Design and maintain office &amp; lab networking: Manage local network infrastructure - VLAN segmentation (isolating robot telemetry, test benches, and corporate traffic), Wi-Fi reliability in dense RF lab environments, managed switches, and ISP circuits.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Manage hardware &amp; procurement: Own hardware ordering, inventory tracking, vendor relationships, conference room AV, and hands-on physical lab IT setup (racking, cabling, and workstation rollouts).</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h2>Requirements</h2><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience: 6+ years of hands-on IT operations, systems administration, or IT engineering experience, ideally in a fast-paced startup, hardware, or robotics environment.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">AI &amp; Agentic fluency: Active user of AI coding tools and agents (Cursor, Claude Code, LLM APIs) to accelerate development, with experience or strong interest in building agentic/LLM-assisted workflows for operations.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Multi-OS troubleshooting: Strong troubleshooting skills across macOS, Windows, and Linux (Ubuntu) at the OS, driver, and application layers.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Networking fundamentals: Practical hands-on experience configuring managed switches, subnets, VLANs, DNS/DHCP, VPN, and robust Wi-Fi networks.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">AI &amp; MCP integrations: Experience deploying LLM agents, MCP servers, or AI-native internal tools using Python, JS,  Git, or Bash for IT/Ops automation.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Identity &amp; MDM: Hands-on experience administering enterprise identity (Google Workspace, Okta) and modern MDM platforms (Fleet, Jamf, Intune, or equivalent).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Hands-on facility readiness: Willingness to work on-site and handle physical infrastructure: racking equipment, running and terminating cable, and supporting all types of hardware in an active lab and office environment.</p></li></ul><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Robotics &amp; ML: Experience supporting robotics environments, ROS, or GPU/CUDA machine learning workstations (is a plus).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Facility scaling: Experience managing IT infrastructure through a new facility buildout or office/lab move (is a plus).</p></li></ul>","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT THE TEAM AND THE ROLE\n\nMind Robotics is building intelligent robotic systems. Our work happens on-site across active hardware labs, test floors, and compute environments where hardware and software iterate together daily.\n\n\n\nAs our first dedicated IT hire, you will build and own our IT operations end to end. You’ll be responsible for making sure our teams never lose momentum to tooling, identity, device, or network issues, whether that means troubleshooting a Linux/driver setup in the lab, setting up zero-touch laptop provisioning for new hires, or ensuring our test-floor Wi-Fi can handle high-throughput robot telemetry.\n\n\n\nWe believe modern IT should be built for extreme leverage. In this role, you will actively use AI agents and build agentic workflows (leveraging LLMs, MCP, and API integrations) to automate support intake, triage, provisioning, access approvals, and system reconciliation. You'll build an AI-native IT foundation that keeps operations fast, lean, and scalable without scaling support headcount.\n\n\n\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Own internal IT & support: Be the primary technical point of contact for the team. Establish a lightweight, responsive support workflow that unblocks engineers quickly without unnecessary red tape.\n\n - Build agentic automations & workflows: Leverage AI coding agents and LLM-driven workflows (via APIs, MCP, webhooks) to automate repetitive IT operations: such as intelligent ticket triage, access requests, onboarding/off-boarding, and system reconciliation.\n\n - Manage identity, access, and endpoints: Administer our core SaaS, identity, and access stack (Google Workspace / IdP) and deploy modern MDM (e.g., Fleet, Jamf) for zero-touch provisioning and fleet visibility across macOS, Windows, and Linux machines.\n\n - Support robotics lab & compute infrastructure: Help maintain our lab workstation fleet (Ubuntu boxes, test bench PCs), keeping configurations reliable and reproducible.\n\n - Design and maintain office & lab networking: Manage local network infrastructure - VLAN segmentation (isolating robot telemetry, test benches, and corporate traffic), Wi-Fi reliability in dense RF lab environments, managed switches, and ISP circuits.\n\n - Manage hardware & procurement: Own hardware ordering, inventory tracking, vendor relationships, conference room AV, and hands-on physical lab IT setup (racking, cabling, and workstation rollouts).\n\n\n\n\nREQUIREMENTS\n\n - Experience: 6+ years of hands-on IT operations, systems administration, or IT engineering experience, ideally in a fast-paced startup, hardware, or robotics environment.\n\n - AI & Agentic fluency: Active user of AI coding tools and agents (Cursor, Claude Code, LLM APIs) to accelerate development, with experience or strong interest in building agentic/LLM-assisted workflows for operations.\n\n - Multi-OS troubleshooting: Strong troubleshooting skills across macOS, Windows, and Linux (Ubuntu) at the OS, driver, and application layers.\n\n - Networking fundamentals: Practical hands-on experience configuring managed switches, subnets, VLANs, DNS/DHCP, VPN, and robust Wi-Fi networks.\n\n - AI & MCP integrations: Experience deploying LLM agents, MCP servers, or AI-native internal tools using Python, JS,  Git, or Bash for IT/Ops automation.\n\n - Identity & MDM: Hands-on experience administering enterprise identity (Google Workspace, Okta) and modern MDM platforms (Fleet, Jamf, Intune, or equivalent).\n\n - Hands-on facility readiness: Willingness to work on-site and handle physical infrastructure: racking equipment, running and terminating cable, and supporting all types of hardware in an active lab and office environment.\n\n - Robotics & ML: Experience supporting robotics environments, ROS, or GPU/CUDA machine learning workstations (is a plus).\n\n - Facility scaling: Experience managing IT infrastructure through a new facility buildout or office/lab move (is a plus).","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"6bc89c7d-bdb6-4933-af5b-a48f4148a1ff","title":"Mechanical Design Engineer, Wearables ","department":"Hardware Engineering","team":"Hardware Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-09-15T22:40:42.526+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/6bc89c7d-bdb6-4933-af5b-a48f4148a1ff","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/6bc89c7d-bdb6-4933-af5b-a48f4148a1ff/application","descriptionHtml":"<h3><strong>About Mind:</strong></h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong><br />Responsibilities</strong></p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Own the mechanical architecture of Mind's wearable data collection platform across both head-worn and body-worn devices, including what carries forward between generations and what gets rebuilt.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Set the mechanical requirements the optics, electrical, and compute teams design against: volume and keep-out budgets, alignment and stiffness targets, thermal limits, and mass allocation. Own the tradeoffs when those budgets conflict, and decide which ones give.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Decide which mechanical problems each device generation takes on and which it deliberately does not, and hold that line when the program pushes back.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Own build and tooling strategy for the platform: what is printed, machined, molded, or bought; when tooling gets committed; and which molders, soft goods vendors, and CMs Mind builds a long-term relationship with.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Set the mechanical standards other hardware teams work to: design review, tolerance analysis practice, materials and skin-contact qualification, and DFM expectations for vendors.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Stay hands-on. Build, test, and break prototypes on real users, and personally run the tolerance, structural, drop, and thermal analyses that decide the architecture.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Grow the mechanical bench through design review, mentorship on the wearable stack, and hiring.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Qualifications</strong></p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Exceptional mechanical intuition. You understand how forces, materials, and mechanisms behave instinctively.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">You have owned the mechanical architecture of a shipped wearable, head-worn, or handheld consumer device end to end, and can describe both the tradeoffs you chose and the ones you refused.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Depth packaging cameras, sensors, compute, and batteries into space-constrained enclosures with tight tolerance and alignment requirements, with a track record of setting those budgets rather than working inside someone else's.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Deep hands-on knowledge of injection molding and polymer selection, from part design through tooling and T1 to production, including judgment on when to commit tooling.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Working fluency in soft goods and textiles: straps, padding, fabric-to-rigid interfaces, and skin-contact ergonomics. You know when this needs a specialist and can direct one.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">High proficiency in SolidWorks, Catia, NX, or similar CAD tools, including surfacing.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Comfortable with ambiguity, moves fast, and curious about how the whole system works.</p></li></ul>","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MIND:\n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.\n\n\nResponsibilities\n\n - Own the mechanical architecture of Mind's wearable data collection platform across both head-worn and body-worn devices, including what carries forward between generations and what gets rebuilt.\n\n - Set the mechanical requirements the optics, electrical, and compute teams design against: volume and keep-out budgets, alignment and stiffness targets, thermal limits, and mass allocation. Own the tradeoffs when those budgets conflict, and decide which ones give.\n\n - Decide which mechanical problems each device generation takes on and which it deliberately does not, and hold that line when the program pushes back.\n\n - Own build and tooling strategy for the platform: what is printed, machined, molded, or bought; when tooling gets committed; and which molders, soft goods vendors, and CMs Mind builds a long-term relationship with.\n\n - Set the mechanical standards other hardware teams work to: design review, tolerance analysis practice, materials and skin-contact qualification, and DFM expectations for vendors.\n\n - Stay hands-on. Build, test, and break prototypes on real users, and personally run the tolerance, structural, drop, and thermal analyses that decide the architecture.\n\n - Grow the mechanical bench through design review, mentorship on the wearable stack, and hiring.\n   \n   \n\nQualifications\n\n - Exceptional mechanical intuition. You understand how forces, materials, and mechanisms behave instinctively.\n\n - You have owned the mechanical architecture of a shipped wearable, head-worn, or handheld consumer device end to end, and can describe both the tradeoffs you chose and the ones you refused.\n\n - Depth packaging cameras, sensors, compute, and batteries into space-constrained enclosures with tight tolerance and alignment requirements, with a track record of setting those budgets rather than working inside someone else's.\n\n - Deep hands-on knowledge of injection molding and polymer selection, from part design through tooling and T1 to production, including judgment on when to commit tooling.\n\n - Working fluency in soft goods and textiles: straps, padding, fabric-to-rigid interfaces, and skin-contact ergonomics. You know when this needs a specialist and can direct one.\n\n - High proficiency in SolidWorks, Catia, NX, or similar CAD tools, including surfacing.\n\n - Comfortable with ambiguity, moves fast, and curious about how the whole system works.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"9d48d052-57b6-4cfc-afad-ef40414fa29b","title":"Electrical Design Engineer, Power Electronics","department":"Hardware Engineering","team":"Hardware Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-10-16T16:11:11.420+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/9d48d052-57b6-4cfc-afad-ef40414fa29b","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/9d48d052-57b6-4cfc-afad-ef40414fa29b/application","descriptionHtml":"<h2><strong>About Mind:</strong></h2><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. 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You’ll also stay hands-on, taking designs from schematic through bring-up and validation.<br /><br /><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Own the robot’s power architecture end to end, from distribution across compute, actuation, sensing and peripherals to the motor inverters. Compute, actuation, controls and systems teams build against your rail budgets and interfaces, and their schedules depend on them.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Decide what the power system solves next and what it won’t. Set priorities against power density, thermal, cost and reliability targets, and defend the tradeoffs to program leads.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Make the domain’s strategic calls on topology, Si/GaN/SiC, make vs. buy and supplier strategy, and commit power specs and dates to the program.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Set power design standards other hardware teams adopt, covering derating, layout, EMI, protection and validation. Lead cross-team design reviews and mentor engineers.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Stay hands-on with distribution networks, inverter stages with discrete gate drivers, DC-DC conversion, current sensing and protection.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Deliver high power density within tight thermal limits, from PCB design through bring-up, validation and fault injection.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Own the power side of firmware and telemetry interfaces (EtherCAT, PMBus, I2C, SPI), connectors and pinouts.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Manage fabricators and suppliers for delivery, DFM and second sourcing.</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Qualifications</strong></p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Has owned a product’s power architecture, not just individual boards, that other teams built against.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Deep expertise in either power distribution or inverter power stages, with architecture decisions spanning both.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong DC-DC design skills, including topology, magnetics and loop compensation, plus current sensing and protection circuits.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong high-current layout, EMI/EMC, bring-up and measurement skills, including double-pulse testing and gate-drive characterization.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with harnesses, connectors, volume manufacturing and contract manufacturers.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Has set design standards adopted beyond their own team.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong pluses: EtherCAT and GaN/SiC experience.</p></li></ul>","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MIND:\n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nAs our Power Electronics Engineer, you’ll own the robot’s power architecture end to end, from how power reaches every compute, sensing and actuation load to the motor inverters that drive each joint. The compute, actuation and controls teams build against the specs you set, so your decisions shape the whole robot program, not just your own boards. You’ll make the key calls on topology, device technology and suppliers, and set the design standards other hardware teams follow. You’ll also stay hands-on, taking designs from schematic through bring-up and validation.\n\nResponsibilities\n\n - Own the robot’s power architecture end to end, from distribution across compute, actuation, sensing and peripherals to the motor inverters. Compute, actuation, controls and systems teams build against your rail budgets and interfaces, and their schedules depend on them.\n\n - Decide what the power system solves next and what it won’t. Set priorities against power density, thermal, cost and reliability targets, and defend the tradeoffs to program leads.\n\n - Make the domain’s strategic calls on topology, Si/GaN/SiC, make vs. buy and supplier strategy, and commit power specs and dates to the program.\n\n - Set power design standards other hardware teams adopt, covering derating, layout, EMI, protection and validation. Lead cross-team design reviews and mentor engineers.\n\n - Stay hands-on with distribution networks, inverter stages with discrete gate drivers, DC-DC conversion, current sensing and protection.\n\n - Deliver high power density within tight thermal limits, from PCB design through bring-up, validation and fault injection.\n\n - Own the power side of firmware and telemetry interfaces (EtherCAT, PMBus, I2C, SPI), connectors and pinouts.\n\n - Manage fabricators and suppliers for delivery, DFM and second sourcing.\n\nQualifications\n\n - Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.\n\n - Has owned a product’s power architecture, not just individual boards, that other teams built against.\n\n - Deep expertise in either power distribution or inverter power stages, with architecture decisions spanning both.\n\n - Strong DC-DC design skills, including topology, magnetics and loop compensation, plus current sensing and protection circuits.\n\n - Strong high-current layout, EMI/EMC, bring-up and measurement skills, including double-pulse testing and gate-drive characterization.\n\n - Experience with harnesses, connectors, volume manufacturing and contract manufacturers.\n\n - Has set design standards adopted beyond their own team.\n\n - Strong pluses: EtherCAT and GaN/SiC experience.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"9ef82514-902b-4700-8490-51b08048c26b","title":"Tools and PLM Engineer","department":"Hardware Engineering","team":"Hardware Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-10-16T16:19:29.980+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/9ef82514-902b-4700-8490-51b08048c26b","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/9ef82514-902b-4700-8490-51b08048c26b/application","descriptionHtml":"<h2><strong>About Mind:</strong></h2><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems.<br /></p><h2><br />About the role:</h2><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mind Robotics is hiring a Tools and PLM Engineer to own the CAD and engineering tools our hardware teams design with. Our core platform is Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE, and you will be its resident expert while keeping our wider toolchain running and up to date. You will build the processes that carry engineering data to manufacturing, supply chain and the rest of the company, and keep us ahead of new technology.<br /><br /><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Be the expert on all of our CAD tools, such as 3DEXPERIENCE, and the go-to person for engineers on any CAD issue, from modeling and assembly problems to data, performance and licensing.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Own Mind’s engineering systems domain end to end: 3DEXPERIENCE plus the CAD, ECAD, simulation and CAM toolchain, including platform administration, configuration, upgrades, licenses and vendors.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Own the flow of engineering data from design to build. Design the processes and integrations that carry released parts, BOMs, drawings and changes to manufacturing, supply chain and quality from one source of truth, with no manual re-entry. Manufacturing, supply chain and quality plan builds, orders and inspections on this data, so when it is late or wrong, their plans move.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Define how Mind manages engineering data: part numbering, release, change management and BOM structure, including the EBOM-to-MBOM handoff.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Decide which engineering-systems problems are worth solving and in what order. Set the roadmap, make the tradeoffs across teams, and explain what we are choosing not to address.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Evaluate new tools and new functionality from Dassault Systèmes and other vendors. Decide what we adopt, change or retire, and lead the rollout across teams.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Set the CAD, data and release standards that engineering, manufacturing, supply chain and quality work to, and build the training that makes them stick.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Remove repetitive CAD and PLM work with scripts, templates, tools and API integrations, and turn recurring support issues into lasting fixes.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p></li></ul><h2><strong>Requirements:</strong></h2><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">A track record of owning PLM and engineering tools for a hardware company, where other teams depended on the data and processes you ran.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Advanced, hands-on expertise across CAD tools such as 3DEXPERIENCE, not just administration and configuration, and a track record as the go-to CAD expert for an engineering team.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Deep knowledge of release, change and BOM management in CAD tools such as 3DEXPERIENCE.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience designing how engineering data reaches manufacturing and supply chain, such as EBOM-to-MBOM handoff and ERP item and BOM transfer.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Scripting in EKL, VBA, Python, C# or similar, and experience building on APIs.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">The judgment to choose which problems to solve and which tools to adopt, and to separate real value from hype.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Clear communication with engineers and with leads in manufacturing, supply chain and quality, and patience as a trainer.</p></li></ul>","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MIND:\n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE:\n\nMind Robotics is hiring a Tools and PLM Engineer to own the CAD and engineering tools our hardware teams design with. Our core platform is Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE, and you will be its resident expert while keeping our wider toolchain running and up to date. You will build the processes that carry engineering data to manufacturing, supply chain and the rest of the company, and keep us ahead of new technology.\n\nResponsibilities:\n\n - Be the expert on all of our CAD tools, such as 3DEXPERIENCE, and the go-to person for engineers on any CAD issue, from modeling and assembly problems to data, performance and licensing.\n\n - Own Mind’s engineering systems domain end to end: 3DEXPERIENCE plus the CAD, ECAD, simulation and CAM toolchain, including platform administration, configuration, upgrades, licenses and vendors.\n\n - Own the flow of engineering data from design to build. Design the processes and integrations that carry released parts, BOMs, drawings and changes to manufacturing, supply chain and quality from one source of truth, with no manual re-entry. Manufacturing, supply chain and quality plan builds, orders and inspections on this data, so when it is late or wrong, their plans move.\n\n - Define how Mind manages engineering data: part numbering, release, change management and BOM structure, including the EBOM-to-MBOM handoff.\n\n - Decide which engineering-systems problems are worth solving and in what order. Set the roadmap, make the tradeoffs across teams, and explain what we are choosing not to address.\n\n - Evaluate new tools and new functionality from Dassault Systèmes and other vendors. Decide what we adopt, change or retire, and lead the rollout across teams.\n\n - Set the CAD, data and release standards that engineering, manufacturing, supply chain and quality work to, and build the training that makes them stick.\n\n - Remove repetitive CAD and PLM work with scripts, templates, tools and API integrations, and turn recurring support issues into lasting fixes.\n   \n   \n\n\nREQUIREMENTS:\n\n - A track record of owning PLM and engineering tools for a hardware company, where other teams depended on the data and processes you ran.\n\n - Advanced, hands-on expertise across CAD tools such as 3DEXPERIENCE, not just administration and configuration, and a track record as the go-to CAD expert for an engineering team.\n\n - Deep knowledge of release, change and BOM management in CAD tools such as 3DEXPERIENCE.\n\n - Experience designing how engineering data reaches manufacturing and supply chain, such as EBOM-to-MBOM handoff and ERP item and BOM transfer.\n\n - Scripting in EKL, VBA, Python, C# or similar, and experience building on APIs.\n\n - The judgment to choose which problems to solve and which tools to adopt, and to separate real value from hype.\n\n - Clear communication with engineers and with leads in manufacturing, supply chain and quality, and patience as a trainer.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"375e5c16-b4a7-475a-8a5b-5c98c01ff512","title":"Software Engineer, Data Platform","department":"Software Engineering","team":"Software Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-09-25T21:02:43.540+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/375e5c16-b4a7-475a-8a5b-5c98c01ff512","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/375e5c16-b4a7-475a-8a5b-5c98c01ff512/application","descriptionHtml":"<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>About Mind:</strong></p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mind Robotics is building robots that learn from real-world experience, and the data platform is what turns raw experience into training signal. Every day, sensor data flows in from multiple sources — arriving in different formats, at different volumes, and with different quality bars. This team owns what happens next: ingesting that data reliably, validating and curating it for quality and diversity, powering annotation, and building the automated methods that will increasingly do that labeling work.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>About the role:</strong></p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">As a Software Engineer working on the data platform, you'll be one of the founding engineers on the team that owns our application layer, reporting to our Head of Application Engineering. The systems work today; your job is to help harden and productionize them for scale — ingesting from a growing number of sources and field sites, and turning raw captures into training-ready data faster and at higher quality. This is early, hands-on, 0-to-1 engineering: you'll build the pipelines and tooling that determine what data actually makes it into our models, and see the effect on robot behavior.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>You will:</strong></p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build data ingestion pipelines from multiple sources, including our own field capture and teleop stacks</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build automatic data validation systems that catch quality issues before data reaches annotation or training</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build and improve annotation ingestion, tooling, and workflows to increase labelling efficiency and throughput</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Own data quality and diversity — build the systems and metrics that tell us what data we have, what's missing, and where to focus collection</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Explore and build automated annotation methods, including running computer vision and vision-language models for tasks like depth estimation, hand tracking, and auto-labeling, to reduce manual labelling load over time</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Support the platform — debug issues in live pipelines, instrument for observability, and work directly with research and annotation partners who depend on your software</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Requirements:</strong></p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">2+ years of software engineering experience building production systems</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong programming fundamentals and comfort working across the stack — services, data pipelines, and applied ML tooling</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with at least one of: real-time or large-scale data pipelines, ML data workflows, computer vision, or data infrastructure</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Bias for ownership: you've taken features or systems from prototype to production and supported them in the field</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Clear communication and close collaboration with product, research, and annotation/operations partners</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Hands-on experience with sensor data (video, depth, IMU, force/torque) and the infrastructure to process, validate, and label it at scale is a plus</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with streaming or near-real-time data pipelines is a plus</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Familiarity with ML data workflows (datasets, labelling, evaluation) is a plus</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience running or integrating computer vision or vision-language models (e.g., depth, pose/hand tracking, open-vocabulary detection, auto-labeling) is a plus</p></li></ul>","descriptionPlain":"About Mind:\n\nMind Robotics is building robots that learn from real-world experience, and the data platform is what turns raw experience into training signal. Every day, sensor data flows in from multiple sources — arriving in different formats, at different volumes, and with different quality bars. This team owns what happens next: ingesting that data reliably, validating and curating it for quality and diversity, powering annotation, and building the automated methods that will increasingly do that labeling work.\n\nAbout the role:\n\nAs a Software Engineer working on the data platform, you'll be one of the founding engineers on the team that owns our application layer, reporting to our Head of Application Engineering. The systems work today; your job is to help harden and productionize them for scale — ingesting from a growing number of sources and field sites, and turning raw captures into training-ready data faster and at higher quality. This is early, hands-on, 0-to-1 engineering: you'll build the pipelines and tooling that determine what data actually makes it into our models, and see the effect on robot behavior.\n\nYou will:\n\n - Build data ingestion pipelines from multiple sources, including our own field capture and teleop stacks\n\n - Build automatic data validation systems that catch quality issues before data reaches annotation or training\n\n - Build and improve annotation ingestion, tooling, and workflows to increase labelling efficiency and throughput\n\n - Own data quality and diversity — build the systems and metrics that tell us what data we have, what's missing, and where to focus collection\n\n - Explore and build automated annotation methods, including running computer vision and vision-language models for tasks like depth estimation, hand tracking, and auto-labeling, to reduce manual labelling load over time\n\n - Support the platform — debug issues in live pipelines, instrument for observability, and work directly with research and annotation partners who depend on your software\n\nRequirements:\n\n - 2+ years of software engineering experience building production systems\n\n - Strong programming fundamentals and comfort working across the stack — services, data pipelines, and applied ML tooling\n\n - Experience with at least one of: real-time or large-scale data pipelines, ML data workflows, computer vision, or data infrastructure\n\n - Bias for ownership: you've taken features or systems from prototype to production and supported them in the field\n\n - Clear communication and close collaboration with product, research, and annotation/operations partners\n\n - Hands-on experience with sensor data (video, depth, IMU, force/torque) and the infrastructure to process, validate, and label it at scale is a plus\n\n - Experience with streaming or near-real-time data pipelines is a plus\n\n - Familiarity with ML data workflows (datasets, labelling, evaluation) is a plus\n\n - Experience running or integrating computer vision or vision-language models (e.g., depth, pose/hand tracking, open-vocabulary detection, auto-labeling) is a plus","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"1d9c7352-624e-4288-bdef-5190dcba0ad0","title":"Communications Lead","department":"G&A","team":"G&A","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-10-05T21:49:02.613+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/1d9c7352-624e-4288-bdef-5190dcba0ad0","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/1d9c7352-624e-4288-bdef-5190dcba0ad0/application","descriptionHtml":"<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>About Mind:</strong></p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. 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This role will shape the narrative and public opinion for Mind Robotics’ next phase of growth.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><em>CEO &amp; Executive Communications</em></p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Serve as the CEO's day-to-day communications partner: briefing docs, media prep, talking points, and message development for all public appearances.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Drive a proactive earned media strategy—pitch and secure placements on high-impact podcasts, business and tech press, and conference stages.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Own the CEO's editorial output: op-eds, public statements, and investor-facing communications.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Build and maintain relationships with journalists, podcast producers, and editors on the CEO's behalf.</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><em>External &amp; Corporate Communications</em></p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Develop and own the company's messaging architecture, narrative positioning, and crisis communications framework.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Lead all media relations: serve as primary press contact, manage inbound inquiries, and produce press materials for key milestones.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Support fundraising and product launch communications in partnership with leadership, finance, and legal.</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><em>Internal Communications</em></p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Design and run the company's internal communications infrastructure: all-hands formats, leadership updates, and the cadences that keep a growing team aligned.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Write company-wide announcements, organizational change communications, and culture moments in a consistent, on-brand voice.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Partner with HR and People Ops on employee experience communications as the team scales.</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Requirements:</strong></p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><em>External</em></p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>CEO media strategy: </strong>Develop a 6-month earned media roadmap with target outlets, podcast targets, and placement calendar within first 30 days.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Press kit &amp; messaging house: </strong>Build a foundational messaging architecture and press kit (company backgrounder, CEO bio, boilerplate, FAQs) within first 45 days.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>First placements:</strong> Secure at least 2–3 meaningful CEO media placements (podcast appearances or press features) within the first 90 days.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Launch playbook: </strong>Partner with Rivian's communications team to co-develop artifacts, playbooks, and SOPs for initial operator deployments — establishing a repeatable framework for all future launch communications.</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><em>Internal</em></p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>All-hands framework: </strong>Audit existing all-hands format and deliver a redesigned structure—agenda, narrative arc, CEO prep guide—within first 30 days.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Internal comms cadence: </strong>Stand up a recurring internal newsletter or leadership update channel (Slack, email, or equivalent) by day 60.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>New hire communications:</strong> Develop onboarding communications materials that orient new employees to company mission, culture, and leadership voice.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Cultural moment coverage:</strong> Own communications around at least one major internal milestone (hiring milestone, product update, company offsite) end-to-end within the first 6 months<strong>.</strong></p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Qualifications:</strong></p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">8–12+ years in communications, with significant in-house experience at a technology company; Director-level or equivalent.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Proven track record managing executive communications for a founder-CEO or senior leader with an active public profile.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong media relationships across tech and business press; existing podcast producer and digital media contacts a strong plus.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Exceptional writer across all formats—press releases, executive narrative, internal memos, and editorial content.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Startup builder mentality: comfortable owning a function end-to-end, creating structure from ambiguity, and operating without a team.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience in deep tech, robotics, automotive, or adjacent industries preferred.</p></li></ul><h3></h3>","descriptionPlain":"About Mind:\n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.\n\n\n\nAbout the team and the role:\n\nWe're looking for a senior communications leader to serve as our first dedicated comms hire and primary partner to our CEO. You will own both his public profile as it relates to Mind Robotics – earned media, podcast placements, press interviews, and executive voice – and the company's internal communications as we scale. You are a builder who can operate without a team, move fast, and do the work. This role will shape the narrative and public opinion for Mind Robotics’ next phase of growth.\n\nResponsibilities:\n\nCEO & Executive Communications\n\n - Serve as the CEO's day-to-day communications partner: briefing docs, media prep, talking points, and message development for all public appearances.\n\n - Drive a proactive earned media strategy—pitch and secure placements on high-impact podcasts, business and tech press, and conference stages.\n\n - Own the CEO's editorial output: op-eds, public statements, and investor-facing communications.\n\n - Build and maintain relationships with journalists, podcast producers, and editors on the CEO's behalf.\n\nExternal & Corporate Communications\n\n - Develop and own the company's messaging architecture, narrative positioning, and crisis communications framework.\n\n - Lead all media relations: serve as primary press contact, manage inbound inquiries, and produce press materials for key milestones.\n\n - Support fundraising and product launch communications in partnership with leadership, finance, and legal.\n\nInternal Communications\n\n - Design and run the company's internal communications infrastructure: all-hands formats, leadership updates, and the cadences that keep a growing team aligned.\n\n - Write company-wide announcements, organizational change communications, and culture moments in a consistent, on-brand voice.\n\n - Partner with HR and People Ops on employee experience communications as the team scales.\n\nRequirements:\n\nExternal\n\n - CEO media strategy: Develop a 6-month earned media roadmap with target outlets, podcast targets, and placement calendar within first 30 days.\n\n - Press kit & messaging house: Build a foundational messaging architecture and press kit (company backgrounder, CEO bio, boilerplate, FAQs) within first 45 days.\n\n - First placements: Secure at least 2–3 meaningful CEO media placements (podcast appearances or press features) within the first 90 days.\n\n - Launch playbook: Partner with Rivian's communications team to co-develop artifacts, playbooks, and SOPs for initial operator deployments — establishing a repeatable framework for all future launch communications.\n\nInternal\n\n - All-hands framework: Audit existing all-hands format and deliver a redesigned structure—agenda, narrative arc, CEO prep guide—within first 30 days.\n\n - Internal comms cadence: Stand up a recurring internal newsletter or leadership update channel (Slack, email, or equivalent) by day 60.\n\n - New hire communications: Develop onboarding communications materials that orient new employees to company mission, culture, and leadership voice.\n\n - Cultural moment coverage: Own communications around at least one major internal milestone (hiring milestone, product update, company offsite) end-to-end within the first 6 months.\n\nQualifications:\n\n - 8–12+ years in communications, with significant in-house experience at a technology company; Director-level or equivalent.\n\n - Proven track record managing executive communications for a founder-CEO or senior leader with an active public profile.\n\n - Strong media relationships across tech and business press; existing podcast producer and digital media contacts a strong plus.\n\n - Exceptional writer across all formats—press releases, executive narrative, internal memos, and editorial content.\n\n - Startup builder mentality: comfortable owning a function end-to-end, creating structure from ambiguity, and operating without a team.\n\n - Experience in deep tech, robotics, automotive, or adjacent industries preferred.\n\n\n","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"fedfb4f0-42b7-43e1-a83a-01f2c53eda75","title":"QA Reviewer, Data Annotation","department":"Data Flywheel","team":"Data Flywheel","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-10-20T05:35:35.218+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/fedfb4f0-42b7-43e1-a83a-01f2c53eda75","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/fedfb4f0-42b7-43e1-a83a-01f2c53eda75/application","descriptionHtml":"<h1><strong>QA Reviewer, Data Annotation</strong></h1><h3><strong>About Mind:</strong></h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3><strong>About the team and the role:</strong></h3><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">We are looking for a <strong>QA Reviewer &amp; Calibration Lead</strong> to ensure our data annotation pipeline operates at high throughput without sacrificing quality. In this role, you will be the backbone of quality control for our continuous data flywheel. You will lead regular alignment sessions, identify systematic labeling inconsistencies, and work hands-on with internal reviewers and partner teams to resolve ambiguous edge cases.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Run calibration sessions:</strong> Lead weekly alignment meetings with internal reviewers and vendor partners to ensure everyone grades and labels data with high consistency.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Track and fix quality issues:</strong> Spot common reviewer errors, conduct root-cause analysis on labeling discrepancies, and build feedback loops to eliminate systemic mistakes.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Update guidelines and documentation:</strong> Keep labeling instructions, edge-case taxonomies, and SOPs clear, crisp, and up-to-date as project requirements evolve.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Monitor quality metrics:</strong> Track quality scores, accuracy rates, and inter-annotator agreement metrics across dashboards to ensure production targets are met.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Provide feedback and guidance:</strong> Deliver direct feedback and targeted training to reviewers navigating complex guidelines or multi-sensor data edge cases.</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Coordinate cross-functionally:</strong> Work closely with technical leads, operations, and annotation teams to resolve taxonomy questions quickly and keep the data flywheel moving smoothly.</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p><h3><strong>Requirements:</strong></h3><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>2–4 years of experience</strong> in quality assurance, data annotation QA, or data review in high-velocity tech or AI environments.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Meticulous attention to detail:</strong> A sharp eye for subtle edge cases and a practical, logical approach to resolving ambiguous data scenarios.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Clear communication:</strong> Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex labeling rules clearly and facilitate alignment discussions.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Data fluency:</strong> Comfortable navigating dashboards, spreadsheets, and basic reports to track accuracy metrics and spot trends.</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Collaborative mindset:</strong> A proactive, team-oriented attitude focused on coaching reviewers and continually driving quality across the organization.</p></li></ul><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with multi-camera/ego-exo video annotation, point cloud data, or robotics training data pipelines (is a plus).</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Background working with third-party vendor teams (BPO/managed services) in a fast-paced hardware or AI deployment environment (is a plus).</p></li></ul>","descriptionPlain":"QA REVIEWER, DATA ANNOTATION\n\n\nABOUT MIND:\n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE TEAM AND THE ROLE:\n\nWe are looking for a QA Reviewer & Calibration Lead to ensure our data annotation pipeline operates at high throughput without sacrificing quality. In this role, you will be the backbone of quality control for our continuous data flywheel. You will lead regular alignment sessions, identify systematic labeling inconsistencies, and work hands-on with internal reviewers and partner teams to resolve ambiguous edge cases.\n\n\n\nResponsibilities:\n\n - Run calibration sessions: Lead weekly alignment meetings with internal reviewers and vendor partners to ensure everyone grades and labels data with high consistency.\n\n - Track and fix quality issues: Spot common reviewer errors, conduct root-cause analysis on labeling discrepancies, and build feedback loops to eliminate systemic mistakes.\n\n - Update guidelines and documentation: Keep labeling instructions, edge-case taxonomies, and SOPs clear, crisp, and up-to-date as project requirements evolve.\n\n - Monitor quality metrics: Track quality scores, accuracy rates, and inter-annotator agreement metrics across dashboards to ensure production targets are met.\n\n - Provide feedback and guidance: Deliver direct feedback and targeted training to reviewers navigating complex guidelines or multi-sensor data edge cases.\n\n\n\n - Coordinate cross-functionally: Work closely with technical leads, operations, and annotation teams to resolve taxonomy questions quickly and keep the data flywheel moving smoothly.\n\n\n\n\nREQUIREMENTS:\n\n - 2–4 years of experience in quality assurance, data annotation QA, or data review in high-velocity tech or AI environments.\n\n - Meticulous attention to detail: A sharp eye for subtle edge cases and a practical, logical approach to resolving ambiguous data scenarios.\n\n - Clear communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex labeling rules clearly and facilitate alignment discussions.\n\n - Data fluency: Comfortable navigating dashboards, spreadsheets, and basic reports to track accuracy metrics and spot trends.\n\n - Collaborative mindset: A proactive, team-oriented attitude focused on coaching reviewers and continually driving quality across the organization.\n\n - Experience with multi-camera/ego-exo video annotation, point cloud data, or robotics training data pipelines (is a plus).\n\n - Background working with third-party vendor teams (BPO/managed services) in a fast-paced hardware or AI deployment environment (is a plus).","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"f81d85b6-36f3-41f3-b383-d05cfa997017","title":"Systems Engineer","department":"Software Engineering","team":"Software Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-11-07T00:48:56.676+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/f81d85b6-36f3-41f3-b383-d05cfa997017","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mindrobotics/f81d85b6-36f3-41f3-b383-d05cfa997017/application","descriptionHtml":"<h1></h1><h2><strong>ABOUT MIND:</strong></h2><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.</p><h2><strong>THE ROLE:</strong></h2><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">At Mind Robotics, we're building generalized physical AI — robotic systems capable of dexterous, adaptive, reasoning-intensive and most importantly safe work in real-world industrial environments. Systems engineering is the discipline that holds it all together: translating mission requirements into hardware reality and ensuring every subsystem behaves as a coherent whole.</p><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><br />We're looking for a Systems Engineer to own the requirements and architecture baseline for the robot — from decomposing high-level behaviors into measurable, traceable specs, to making sure the system and its safety requirements hold together from concept through field deployment. You'll define how the robot is supposed to behave, how we prove it, and what \"ready to ship\" means, working alongside software, mechanical, electrical, and integration teams.</p><h2><strong>RESPONSIBILITIES:</strong></h2><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Own the system requirements baseline: capture top-level robot behaviors and performance targets, and decompose them into measurable subsystem requirements, budgets, and interfaces, with traceability through to verification</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Define software requirements from high-level system requirements, using first-principles analysis and hardware/model-based testing</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Contribute to architectural decisions for new robot subsystems — communication protocols, control strategies, and hardware-software partitioning — alongside firmware/controls, mechanical, and electrical teams</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Own interface definitions across mechanical, electrical, firmware, controls, and software, and manage requirement and interface changes and their cross-subsystem impact</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Lead system-level failure mode and hazard analysis (DFMEA, HARA, FTA) together with subsystem owners, and derive, allocate, and trace the resulting safety requirements to subsystems and their verification</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Work cross-functionally to drive the verification and validation strategy: system-level test plans from bench testing through field deployment, acceptance criteria, and requirements coverage</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Work cross-functionally with subsystem owners to drive requirements and system-level coverage for on-robot diagnostics, telemetry, and health monitoring that support field deployment and service</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Drive readiness reviews, sign-off, and post-launch monitoring across firmware, hardware, controls, reliability, and manufacturing stakeholders</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Work with integration engineers to turn bench and field findings into requirement, interface, and design changes</p></li></ul><h2><strong>REQUIREMENTS:</strong></h2><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Robotics, or equivalent experience</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">5+ years in systems engineering on complex electromechanical, robotic, or autonomous products, including at least one product taken through to field deployment</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Demonstrated experience writing, decomposing, and managing requirements — making high-level system behaviors measurable and testable, with traceability from requirement to design to verification</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Hands-on experience with hazard and risk analysis (DFMEA/FMEDA, HARA, FTA) and turning the results into requirements and test cases</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Working knowledge of functional safety standards and concepts (IEC 61508, ISO 13849, IEC 62061, ISO 26262, or similar)</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong hardware and software fundamentals — able to bridge electrical schematics, embedded communication protocols, and firmware architecture, and to debug system-level issues alongside integration and firmware engineers</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Proficient in data analysis and scripting — able to use hardware and field data to validate or challenge requirements</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Clear written and verbal communication — specs that mechanical, electrical, and firmware teams can all build and test against</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">You are comfortable with ambiguity, move fast, and have an \"engineering curiosity\" that drives you to understand how the entire system works, not just your part</p></li></ul><h2><strong>NICE TO HAVE:</strong></h2><ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with requirements management tools (Jama, Polarion, DOORS, etc.) or model-based systems engineering (SysML)</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience supporting product safety certification (NRTL or notified body) as a technical contributor</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience specifying or validating systems that include learned/ML-based components</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Background in robotics, EV powertrains, drones, aerospace, or other dense electromechanical systems</p></li><li><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Exposure to manufacturing self-test design or service diagnostics</p></li></ul><p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"></p>","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MIND:\n\nMind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. We believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day - and we're looking for people who are passionate about robotics, value ownership, and are excited to tackle difficult problems. Join us if you want to move beyond digital intelligence and put intelligence into motion.\n\n\nTHE ROLE:\n\nAt Mind Robotics, we're building generalized physical AI — robotic systems capable of dexterous, adaptive, reasoning-intensive and most importantly safe work in real-world industrial environments. Systems engineering is the discipline that holds it all together: translating mission requirements into hardware reality and ensuring every subsystem behaves as a coherent whole.\n\n\nWe're looking for a Systems Engineer to own the requirements and architecture baseline for the robot — from decomposing high-level behaviors into measurable, traceable specs, to making sure the system and its safety requirements hold together from concept through field deployment. You'll define how the robot is supposed to behave, how we prove it, and what \"ready to ship\" means, working alongside software, mechanical, electrical, and integration teams.\n\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES:\n\n - Own the system requirements baseline: capture top-level robot behaviors and performance targets, and decompose them into measurable subsystem requirements, budgets, and interfaces, with traceability through to verification\n\n - Define software requirements from high-level system requirements, using first-principles analysis and hardware/model-based testing\n\n - Contribute to architectural decisions for new robot subsystems — communication protocols, control strategies, and hardware-software partitioning — alongside firmware/controls, mechanical, and electrical teams\n\n - Own interface definitions across mechanical, electrical, firmware, controls, and software, and manage requirement and interface changes and their cross-subsystem impact\n\n - Lead system-level failure mode and hazard analysis (DFMEA, HARA, FTA) together with subsystem owners, and derive, allocate, and trace the resulting safety requirements to subsystems and their verification\n\n - Work cross-functionally to drive the verification and validation strategy: system-level test plans from bench testing through field deployment, acceptance criteria, and requirements coverage\n\n - Work cross-functionally with subsystem owners to drive requirements and system-level coverage for on-robot diagnostics, telemetry, and health monitoring that support field deployment and service\n\n - Drive readiness reviews, sign-off, and post-launch monitoring across firmware, hardware, controls, reliability, and manufacturing stakeholders\n\n - Work with integration engineers to turn bench and field findings into requirement, interface, and design changes\n\n\nREQUIREMENTS:\n\n - Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Robotics, or equivalent experience\n\n - 5+ years in systems engineering on complex electromechanical, robotic, or autonomous products, including at least one product taken through to field deployment\n\n - Demonstrated experience writing, decomposing, and managing requirements — making high-level system behaviors measurable and testable, with traceability from requirement to design to verification\n\n - Hands-on experience with hazard and risk analysis (DFMEA/FMEDA, HARA, FTA) and turning the results into requirements and test cases\n\n - Working knowledge of functional safety standards and concepts (IEC 61508, ISO 13849, IEC 62061, ISO 26262, or similar)\n\n - Strong hardware and software fundamentals — able to bridge electrical schematics, embedded communication protocols, and firmware architecture, and to debug system-level issues alongside integration and firmware engineers\n\n - Proficient in data analysis and scripting — able to use hardware and field data to validate or challenge requirements\n\n - Clear written and verbal communication — specs that mechanical, electrical, and firmware teams can all build and test against\n\n - You are comfortable with ambiguity, move fast, and have an \"engineering curiosity\" that drives you to understand how the entire system works, not just your part\n\n\nNICE TO HAVE:\n\n - Experience with requirements management tools (Jama, Polarion, DOORS, etc.) or model-based systems engineering (SysML)\n\n - Experience supporting product safety certification (NRTL or notified body) as a technical contributor\n\n - Experience specifying or validating systems that include learned/ML-based components\n\n - Background in robotics, EV powertrains, drones, aerospace, or other dense electromechanical systems\n\n - Exposure to manufacturing self-test design or service diagnostics\n\n","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}}],"apiVersion":"1"}