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Physical Intelligence
Full time
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USA
09/14/2026
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San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

Drive the architecture and implementation of embedded firmware for devices supporting data collection.
Integrate embedded Linux devices with real-time sensor processing, including driver development, BSP customization, kernel configuration, hardware bring-up, and performance tuning.
Debug timing issues, race conditions, and hardware-software interface bugs using hardware abstraction tools and laboratory equipment.
Analyze and reduce power consumption for battery-operated devices, including radio sleep states and sensor low-power modes.
Collaborate with hardware, software, research, and fleet teams to integrate devices with current and future data pipelines.
Bring up and integrate sensors and camera systems on embedded platforms.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
Strong software engineering and infrastructure skills, including experience building data pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and rapid-iteration tools.
Hands-on hardware experience and experience leading initial board bring-up and software design for novel embedded devices.
Experience with SPI, I2C, UART, and USB, including debugging complex hardware-software interactions.
Experience architecting, implementing, and debugging concurrent and multithreaded firmware services.
Deep understanding of modern operating systems, computer architecture, and compute, memory, and storage trade-offs.
Experience bringing up and integrating sensors on embedded systems; camera bring-up, integration, and tuning is a plus.
Proficiency in C++.
Familiarity with Bash scripting and Python for tooling and automation.
Demonstrated experience leading initiatives from concept to production and translating ambiguous product goals into functional requirements.
Linux Kernel development experience, including writing or debugging drivers, managing device trees, or optimizing kernel-space performance, is a plus.
Strong communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.

Physical Intelligence

Physical Intelligence builds general-purpose AI for the physical world, developing foundation models and full-stack robotic systems for robots and other actuated devices. The privately held company was founded in 2024 and focuses on taking designs from prototype to high-volume production, includi...

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