{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"5f03b4a11679432a30ea1fbb","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/5f03b4a11679432a30ea1fbb","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/5f03b4a11679432a30ea1fbb","title":"Fullstack Software Engineer, Robot Interfaces","description":"Physical Intelligence is bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world. We are a group of engineers, scientists, roboticists, and company builders developing foundation models and learning algorithms to power the robots of today and the physically-actuated devices of the future.\n\nAs a Fullstack Software Engineer, you will build internal products that help Pi's research and operations teams move faster. You will work closely with operators, roboticists, researchers, and other engineers to turn physical workflows into reliable software.\n\nThe Team\n\nFullstack builds the internal software the rest of Pi runs on. Our users span the path from research intent to physical execution: researchers designing experiments and requesting data, Research Ops working across task design, environments, prototyping, and instructions, and Production Ops running collection, evals, and deployments across our lab, warehouse, and real-world sites.\n\nIn This Role You Will\n\nOwn the human-robot interfaces: The software people use to run, monitor, and debug robots, from setup and calibration through live operation and review. Someone lives in this for an entire shift, and small friction compounds fast.\n\nDesign for the whole shift, not just the episode: Time on a robot is a fraction of the day. The rest is preparation, troubleshooting, handoffs, and feedback, spread today across several tools and several people. The goal is not to expose every tool, but to build one surface that tells someone what deserves their attention now and notices when they're stuck.\n\nDesign for safety: Make state unambiguous, make failure obvious, and make the safe action the easy one. Assume the network drops mid-episode or a camera dies, and design so the system degrades predictably rather than surprisingly.\n\nOwn the realtime edge: Video, robot state, and control at latency budgets tight enough that teleoperation feels direct, plus the controllers, headsets, pedals, and sensors people drive with.\n\nDraw the line between device and cloud: Decide what has to stay local because it is safety-critical or latency-sensitive, and what belongs in a control plane that owns identity, state, and coordination across sites.\n\nShip into the physical world: On-prem and on-device deployment, versioning and rollout across lab, warehouse, and partner sites, and enough observability to know what is running where.\n\nMake the work measurable: Instrument these interfaces well enough that we can see where the operation loses time, then test changes against it.\n\nAct as your own PM: Gather requirements, prioritize, define success metrics, ship, and drive adoption. That starts by standing in the room and watching a shift.\n\nWhat We Hope You'll Bring\n\nStrong fullstack engineering experience building production web applications and APIs, especially with React, TypeScript, and Python.\n\nRealtime web experience: WebRTC, WebSockets, streaming video, state synchronization, and the debugging that comes with all of it.\n\nComfort with binary wire formats and schema-defined interfaces: protobuf, gRPC, or similar. Most of what these interfaces talk to is not a REST API.\n\nExperience shipping software that runs on machines you do not administer: on-prem or on-device deployment, degraded-network operation, versioning across a fleet.\n\nStrong UX instincts for high-stakes, high-frequency interfaces, where the user is standing up, under time pressure, and a mistake has physical consequences.\n\nComfort designing workflows where people, hardware, and software have to function as one system.\n\nStrong product judgment, and experience working directly with users through ambiguous workflows and evolving requirements.\n\nBonus Points\n\nFormer founder, early employee, or other demonstration of comfort with ambiguity and solving hard problems end to end.\n\nExperience with teleoperation, robotics, or other robot-adjacent software.\n\nExperience with safety-critical or industrial systems (control room, medical device, aviation, automotive, or similar) where interface decisions carry real consequences.\n\nHardware-adjacent background: firmware, embedded, device integration, or having shipped software alongside a physical product.\n\nExperience with workflow, dispatch, or scheduling systems that direct human work in the physical world.\n\nExperience with our specific stack: React, TypeScript, Python, Postgres, GCP, and Kubernetes.\n\nPursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.","company":"Physical Intelligence","rawCompany":"physical intelligence","city":"Millbrae","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-18T09:16:23.488Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"17-2199.08","title":"Robotics Engineers","slug":"robotics-engineers"},{"code":"15-1254.00","title":"Web Developers","slug":"web-developers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Fullstack Software Engineer, Robot Interfaces","description":"Physical Intelligence is bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world. We are a group of engineers, scientists, roboticists, and company builders developing foundation models and learning algorithms to power the robots of today and the physically-actuated devices of the future.\n\nAs a Fullstack Software Engineer, you will build internal products that help Pi's research and operations teams move faster. You will work closely with operators, roboticists, researchers, and other engineers to turn physical workflows into reliable software.\n\nThe Team\n\nFullstack builds the internal software the rest of Pi runs on. Our users span the path from research intent to physical execution: researchers designing experiments and requesting data, Research Ops working across task design, environments, prototyping, and instructions, and Production Ops running collection, evals, and deployments across our lab, warehouse, and real-world sites.\n\nIn This Role You Will\n\nOwn the human-robot interfaces: The software people use to run, monitor, and debug robots, from setup and calibration through live operation and review. Someone lives in this for an entire shift, and small friction compounds fast.\n\nDesign for the whole shift, not just the episode: Time on a robot is a fraction of the day. The rest is preparation, troubleshooting, handoffs, and feedback, spread today across several tools and several people. The goal is not to expose every tool, but to build one surface that tells someone what deserves their attention now and notices when they're stuck.\n\nDesign for safety: Make state unambiguous, make failure obvious, and make the safe action the easy one. Assume the network drops mid-episode or a camera dies, and design so the system degrades predictably rather than surprisingly.\n\nOwn the realtime edge: Video, robot state, and control at latency budgets tight enough that teleoperation feels direct, plus the controllers, headsets, pedals, and sensors people drive with.\n\nDraw the line between device and cloud: Decide what has to stay local because it is safety-critical or latency-sensitive, and what belongs in a control plane that owns identity, state, and coordination across sites.\n\nShip into the physical world: On-prem and on-device deployment, versioning and rollout across lab, warehouse, and partner sites, and enough observability to know what is running where.\n\nMake the work measurable: Instrument these interfaces well enough that we can see where the operation loses time, then test changes against it.\n\nAct as your own PM: Gather requirements, prioritize, define success metrics, ship, and drive adoption. That starts by standing in the room and watching a shift.\n\nWhat We Hope You'll Bring\n\nStrong fullstack engineering experience building production web applications and APIs, especially with React, TypeScript, and Python.\n\nRealtime web experience: WebRTC, WebSockets, streaming video, state synchronization, and the debugging that comes with all of it.\n\nComfort with binary wire formats and schema-defined interfaces: protobuf, gRPC, or similar. Most of what these interfaces talk to is not a REST API.\n\nExperience shipping software that runs on machines you do not administer: on-prem or on-device deployment, degraded-network operation, versioning across a fleet.\n\nStrong UX instincts for high-stakes, high-frequency interfaces, where the user is standing up, under time pressure, and a mistake has physical consequences.\n\nComfort designing workflows where people, hardware, and software have to function as one system.\n\nStrong product judgment, and experience working directly with users through ambiguous workflows and evolving requirements.\n\nBonus Points\n\nFormer founder, early employee, or other demonstration of comfort with ambiguity and solving hard problems end to end.\n\nExperience with teleoperation, robotics, or other robot-adjacent software.\n\nExperience with safety-critical or industrial systems (control room, medical device, aviation, automotive, or similar) where interface decisions carry real consequences.\n\nHardware-adjacent background: firmware, embedded, device integration, or having shipped software alongside a physical product.\n\nExperience with workflow, dispatch, or scheduling systems that direct human work in the physical world.\n\nExperience with our specific stack: React, TypeScript, Python, Postgres, GCP, and Kubernetes.\n\nPursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.","datePosted":"2026-09-18T09:16:23.488Z","dateModified":"2026-09-18T09:16:23.488Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Physical Intelligence","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Millbrae","addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"5f03b4a11679432a30ea1fbb"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/5f03b4a11679432a30ea1fbb"}}