Luma AI
Robotics Engineer
Redwood City, CA
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About the role
- You'll be the bridge between research and the physical world, keeping a fleet of off-the-shelf robots running and debugging failures across hardware, drivers, and integration code.
- It fits a strong systems-integration engineer who's stood up complex robot setups and kept them alive.
- We believe multimodality is critical for intelligence - the next step beyond language models comes from vision.
Requirements
- Comfort debugging across the stack, from kernel-level driver issues to ML pipeline bugs.
- A track record standing up complex robot setups and keeping them running.
- A strong systems-integration background: robots, drivers, sensors, real-time control.
- Hands-on with ROS/ROS2 (or equivalent), Python, and Linux at the systems level.
Nice to have
- Experience with humanoids or manipulators from major vendors (Unitree, Figure, 1X, Agility, Franka).
- Prior work in a research lab where the robot was a means to an end, not the end itself.
- Luma is an equal opportunity employer.
Compensation
- $30k-$60k
Company info
- Luma's mission is to build unified general intelligence that can generate, understand, and operate in the physical world.
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