Robotics Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Engineer low-latency, high-reliability sensor and actuator pipelines across Linux, drivers, and middleware
• Profile and optimize compute, I/O, memory, scheduling, networking, and storage to meet real-time constraints
• Extend or modify Linux components, drivers, and scheduling for deterministic behavior under load
• Develop and optimize real-time video streaming systems with strict frame timing and packet scheduling
• Build profiling, tracing, and debugging tooling for timing issues across distributed systems and hardware interfaces
• Collaborate with researchers, hardware engineers, and operations to integrate optimized pipelines into production workflows

Requirements

• Strong programming skills in C++, Rust, or Python with production optimization experience
• Linux systems programming background including syscalls, drivers, kernel parameters, scheduling, and memory/IO subsystems
• Experience with real-time or near-real-time systems, VR/AR, video pipelines, 3D engines, or streaming systems
• Ability to optimize across the full stack from kernel and drivers to networking, GPU/CPU workloads, and distributed components
• Proficiency with profiling tools such as perf, tracing, eBPF, GPU profilers, and network analyzers
• Mindset focused on determinism, throughput, frame budgets, jitter minimization, and real-time correctness
• Ability to collaborate with researchers and platform engineers to translate model requirements into system performance

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with VR/AR platforms or low-latency 3D engines
• Camera system expertise including synchronization, capture pipelines, codecs, and GPU offload
• Streaming or video conferencing stack experience such as WebRTC and real-time transport optimizations
• Background in robotics, autonomous systems, SLAM pipelines, or perception systems implementation
• Expertise in kernel-level engineering, device drivers, or high-performance networking
• Familiarity with distributed systems that process real-time data flows

About the Company

Physical Intelligence develops foundation models and learning algorithms to power robots and physically-actuated devices, focusing on tight system latency, reliable sensor pipelines, and end-to-end real-time engineering.