Never Fall Engineering Lead

Engineering · Sunnyvale, US

Job description

Figure is an AI Robotics company developing a general purpose humanoid. Our Humanoid is designed for corporate tasks targeting labor shortages and jobs that are undesirable or unsafe. We are based in Sunnyvale, CA and require 5 days/week in-office collaboration. 

We are looking for a Systems Integration Engineer to lead making our humanoid robot never fall.

Responsibilities: 

  • Track, triage, and root-cause (with cross-team help as needed) every robot fall
  • Drive fixes to falls across mechanical, software, controls, electrical, and firmware teams
  • Lead directional changes in fault response and diagnostics architecture to rapidly analyze and resolve falls
  • Determine and enforce development and design practices to eliminate falls

Requirements: 

  • Prior ownership of major functionality for a complex mechatronic system
  • Depth in one or more of the following areas: electrical, firmware, mechanical, or controls
  • Software development experience in C++ and Python
  • Several years experience performing root-cause analysis on a similar type of platform

Bonus Qualifications: 

  • Prior experience working robotic systems
  • Prior experience working with humanoids
  • Prior leadership experience