{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"867fef505125eaa9bc4672f2","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/867fef505125eaa9bc4672f2","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/867fef505125eaa9bc4672f2","title":"Robotics Integration/Controls Engineer (Full-Stack Capable)","description":"About LightSpeed\nLightSpeed Build Technologies is revolutionizing the construction industry through AI-powered robotics. Our flagship systems—BRUTE for automated wall panel manufacturing and DEX for on-site collaborative construction—are addressing the global housing crisis by delivering unprecedented speed, precision, and affordability in homebuilding.\n\nWe're an early-stage venture, building an automated physical system driven by robotic arms, live sensing, and a real-time software layer that ties the hardware to a customer- facing application and operator dashboard. We're past the idea stage and moving fast toward a working demo.\n\nWe need an engineer who can own the seam between the hardware and the software bringing up robot arms and controls, wiring sensors, actuators, and telemetry into a real- time control plane, and writing the glue that lets the rest of the stack drive and observe the cell. We're open to candidates coming at this from either direction: a robotics integration engineer who has worked across the software stack, or a controls / automation engineer with strong real-time integration instincts ready to go deeper on robotics. This is nota front-end design role - visual polish lives with another hire.\n\nWhat you will work on:\n\nBring up and integrate robot arms and the surrounding control system; design and tune motion, tooling, sequencing, and safety logic\n\nIntegrate sensors, actuators, and I/O; build the real-time control/telemetry layer — stream motion and sensor data, model job/device state as explicit state machines, expose a clean API contract for the application and operator console to consume\n\nStand up and maintain a simulation environment that mirrors the physical cell, so work can proceed in parallel with hardware and demos never block on a single robot Integrate vision/perception where the task requires it\n\nWrite the supporting software around the robotics and controls — services, scripts, and APIs — and coordinate with the application team against a shared control-plane contract\n\nRequired skills:\n\nWe expect a strong fit from either a robotics or a controls/automation background:\n\nRobotics or industrial controls experience - hands-on bring-up and integration of robot arms (cobots a plus) and/or automated cells, motion control, PLC/industrial automation, sensor and actuator integration, in a real, physical setting\n\nReal-time integration — comfortable with control loops, I/O, and streaming machine state; modeling device/job state and telemetry (WebSockets/SSE, pub/sub, fieldbus, or equivalent)\n\nProgramming - Python and/or C++ for robotics and integration work; scripting comfort generally\n\nEnough full-stack ability to build the software around the hardware — APIs, services, a basic data layer (Node/TypeScript and Postgres in our stack, but we care more that you can work across it than that you've used our exact tools)\n\nPragmatic, demo-driven, comfortable owning ambiguity in an early-stage build\n\nStrongly preferred / differentiators\n\nROS/ROS2-building and debugging real nodes, topics, and control loops\n\nSimulation frameworks — Isaac Sim, Gazebo, MuJoCo, or similar; experience standing up a sim that meaningfully mirrors real hardware\n\nAI/ML in robotics - learned policies, imitation/RL, or forward-looking approaches (e.g. VLA-style models)\n\nVision/perception - object detection, pose estimation, hand-eye calibration SLAM or other spatial/localization work, especially on mobile platforms\n\nFunctional safety - e-stop logic, safety-rated I/O, risk assessment for automated equipment\n\nEmployment Relationship\nThis position is at-will, meaning either you or the Company may terminate employment at any time, with or without cause or notice.\n\nEqual Opportunity\nLightSpeed Build Technologies is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. 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Our flagship systems—BRUTE for automated wall panel manufacturing and DEX for on-site collaborative construction—are addressing the global housing crisis by delivering unprecedented speed, precision, and affordability in homebuilding.\n\nWe're an early-stage venture, building an automated physical system driven by robotic arms, live sensing, and a real-time software layer that ties the hardware to a customer- facing application and operator dashboard. We're past the idea stage and moving fast toward a working demo.\n\nWe need an engineer who can own the seam between the hardware and the software bringing up robot arms and controls, wiring sensors, actuators, and telemetry into a real- time control plane, and writing the glue that lets the rest of the stack drive and observe the cell. We're open to candidates coming at this from either direction: a robotics integration engineer who has worked across the software stack, or a controls / automation engineer with strong real-time integration instincts ready to go deeper on robotics. This is nota front-end design role - visual polish lives with another hire.\n\nWhat you will work on:\n\nBring up and integrate robot arms and the surrounding control system; design and tune motion, tooling, sequencing, and safety logic\n\nIntegrate sensors, actuators, and I/O; build the real-time control/telemetry layer — stream motion and sensor data, model job/device state as explicit state machines, expose a clean API contract for the application and operator console to consume\n\nStand up and maintain a simulation environment that mirrors the physical cell, so work can proceed in parallel with hardware and demos never block on a single robot Integrate vision/perception where the task requires it\n\nWrite the supporting software around the robotics and controls — services, scripts, and APIs — and coordinate with the application team against a shared control-plane contract\n\nRequired skills:\n\nWe expect a strong fit from either a robotics or a controls/automation background:\n\nRobotics or industrial controls experience - hands-on bring-up and integration of robot arms (cobots a plus) and/or automated cells, motion control, PLC/industrial automation, sensor and actuator integration, in a real, physical setting\n\nReal-time integration — comfortable with control loops, I/O, and streaming machine state; modeling device/job state and telemetry (WebSockets/SSE, pub/sub, fieldbus, or equivalent)\n\nProgramming - Python and/or C++ for robotics and integration work; scripting comfort generally\n\nEnough full-stack ability to build the software around the hardware — APIs, services, a basic data layer (Node/TypeScript and Postgres in our stack, but we care more that you can work across it than that you've used our exact tools)\n\nPragmatic, demo-driven, comfortable owning ambiguity in an early-stage build\n\nStrongly preferred / differentiators\n\nROS/ROS2-building and debugging real nodes, topics, and control loops\n\nSimulation frameworks — Isaac Sim, Gazebo, MuJoCo, or similar; experience standing up a sim that meaningfully mirrors real hardware\n\nAI/ML in robotics - learned policies, imitation/RL, or forward-looking approaches (e.g. VLA-style models)\n\nVision/perception - object detection, pose estimation, hand-eye calibration SLAM or other spatial/localization work, especially on mobile platforms\n\nFunctional safety - e-stop logic, safety-rated I/O, risk assessment for automated equipment\n\nEmployment Relationship\nThis position is at-will, meaning either you or the Company may terminate employment at any time, with or without cause or notice.\n\nEqual Opportunity\nLightSpeed Build Technologies is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. 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