Location: UK, London
Workplace: OnSite
Here at Humanoid, we believe in a future where robots amplify human potential. That’s why we’ve set out on a mission to build the world’s most capable, commercially-scalable, and safe humanoid robots. We’re bringing that mission to life with HMND‑01 - our rapidly developed humanoid platform being deployed in real industrial environments - and we’re growing the team to take it even further.
WHY THIS BET
Most humanoid efforts are racing toward fully general-purpose bipeds with five-fingered hands. We made a different call — informed by direct customer conversations and a team that has actually deployed robots at fleet scale in prior companies. Our wedge is the practical one: wheeled industrial humanoids that solve real customer problems today, on a generalized hardware platform with generalized learning paradigms.
What that means for the role: The combination of generalized hardware and generalized learning lets us deploy and integrate astonishingly fast — high-performance capability landing in customer facilities in days to weeks, not quarters. Industrial customers used to the multi-quarter integration cycles that are the industry norm consistently tell us this looks different. It is.
HOW WE THINK ABOUT AI
The AI stack is our long-term flywheel. We are aggressively pushing the envelope on modern robot learning — fleet learning, embodied agents, foundation models for autonomy — and leveraging AI agents across the product workflow itself. The platform is generalized enough that a capability trained once propagates across every robot in the field. Our public AI white paper has more: https://thehumanoid.ai/ai/
ABOUT THE ROLE
As VP of Industrial Product Engineering, you will be the single engineering owner of industrial product delivery — the person who, across hardware, software, AI, and system integration, makes sure what we ship is what our customers actually need, in the order they need it, on the timeline they need it.
You won't run a siloed sub-org. You will work as a peer to our functional engineering leaders — hardware, software, AI, test — leading prioritization for engineers dedicated to the industrial product. Think of this as a technical GM for industrial: you own what and when; you partner with functional leads who own how.
This role reports directly to the CTO.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Own end-to-end engineering delivery for the industrial product — from design, through pilots, through scale and iteration in the field — across HW, SW, AI, and system integration & test.
- Direct prioritization for the engineers hard-allocated to industrial across our matrixed functions (industrial / common / home). Partner closely with functional leads on shared platform work, and with Ops on manufacturing readiness.
- Be the single source of truth on industrial engineering delivery and forward roadmap for the CEO, Commercial team, Product, and customers.
- Build a delivery engine that releases production software on a fast, predictable cadence and that scales beyond the first industrial product line.
WHAT YOU BRING
- 15+ years in engineering leadership, with a track record of shipping multi-disciplinary HW/SW/AI products at meaningful scale.
- Software-biased background. Most of the long-term work here is software and AI — deployment, fleet learning, capability iteration. We need a leader whose center of gravity is software, with the HW and AI fluency to drive us to a world-class holistic product.
- Deep understanding of the industrial market — what real industrial customers in logistics, manufacturing, automotive and adjacent verticals actually buy, integrate, and rely on. UK or EU industrial experience is a strong plus; US industrial deployment experience is equally valued.
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence in a matrix — you have driven outcomes across teams you didn't directly manage, and you can show how.
- You have taken product from zero to one, and have delighted customers with innovative solutions to solve their real pain points.
- Deep technical credibility across HW, SW, and modern AI — enough to debate functional leads as a peer, not just review their work.
- Comfort operating across distributed teams (London, Boston, Vancouver, San Diego).
- Calibrated for the pace of a company moving from prototype to production at the same time it's raising and growing.
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE AT 12 MONTHS
- Long term pilots transition smoothly into scaled deployments at multiple customer locations.
- Robots in reliable operation around the clock, delivering to strict SLAs.
- HW, SW, and AI are all moving at best-in-class quality — none of the three is sacrificed to hit a near-term gate.
LOCATION
London required. The role requires daily proximity to the people you'll be coordinating with across engineering/ops/product/business.
WHAT WE OFFER
- Competitive equity: stock options with meaningful upside as we scale.
- 30+ paid days off, including 23 days of annual leave, all UK bank holidays, and additional company closure days (including Christmas–New Year shutdown).
- Private healthcare, including virtual and in-person care.
- Pension scheme with 8% total contribution (5% employee, 3% employer) on full earnings.
- Free daily breakfast, catered lunch, and snacks in-office.
- Work at the frontier - collaborate daily with world-class engineers, researchers, and product experts building the next generation of AI and humanoid robotics.
- Real ownership - direct access to founding leadership, meaningful input on product direction, and the ability to drive key initiatives from day one.
Location: UK, London
Workplace: OnSite
Here at Humanoid, we believe in a future where robots amplify human potential. That’s why we’ve set out on a mission to build the world’s most capable, commercially-scalable, and safe humanoid robots. We’re bringing that mission to life with HMND‑01 - our rapidly developed humanoid platform being deployed in real industrial environments - and we’re growing the team to take it even further.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
We are looking for a Software Engineer to work on the systems that let operators author, deploy, and manage robot workflows at scale. This sits at the intersection of backend infrastructure and product - you'll build the services that coordinate fleets of robots, the tooling that lets operators express what they want robots to do, and the interfaces that give visibility into what's actually happening on the floor.
This is a full-stack role with a strong backend lean. You'll work closely with the robotics, AI, and product teams to build systems that are real-time, multi-tenant, and mission-critical.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Build and maintain backend services that coordinate robot fleets at runtime: workflow state management, event logging, and the APIs that robots, operators, and third-party systems use to interact with the platform
- Develop and evolve the workflow authoring experience - tooling that lets operators define, deploy, and incrementally refine robot workflows in natural language, without needing to understand the underlying representation
- Build on-robot services that enable remote control, workflow execution, state reporting, and diagnostics
- Own the data infrastructure that tracks workflow execution: event logs, conformance metrics, and the audit trails that let operators understand what robots are doing and why
- Build and maintain reliable, secure cloud infrastructure for running these services, including deployment pipelines, observability, and alerting
- Implement testing and validation pipelines to catch regressions across the UI, backend, and on-robot services - including simulation-based workflow validation before changes hit production
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- Strong backend engineering skills in Python, Go, or similar
- Solid understanding of API design, data modelling, and the tradeoffs in distributed systems (consistency, concurrency, fault tolerance)
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and deployment: containerisation, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code
- Comfort working across the stack from frontend to backend
- Experience with observability and alerting in systems where failures have real operational consequences
- Good instincts for where complexity should live and how to keep systems debuggable and understandable as they grow
NICE TO HAVE
- Familiarity with workflow engines, state machines, or coordination systems — ideally in a multi-agent or fleet context
- Experience building operator-facing tooling: dashboards, authoring UIs, or systems that translate human intent into structured actions
- Exposure to LLM-based agentic systems, particularly using AI to generate or modify structured representations from natural language
- Experience integrating with third-party enterprise systems (WMS, ERP, or similar)
- Background in robotics or real-time systems where execution state and side-effects need to be managed carefully
WHAT WE OFFER
- Competitive equity: stock options with meaningful upside as we scale.
- 30+ paid days off, including 23 days of annual leave, all UK bank holidays, and additional company closure days (including Christmas–New Year shutdown).
- Private healthcare, including virtual and in-person care.
- Pension scheme with 8% total contribution (5% employee, 3% employer) on full earnings.
- Free daily breakfast, catered lunch, and snacks in-office.
- Work at the frontier - collaborate daily with world-class engineers, researchers, and product experts building the next generation of AI and humanoid robotics.
- Real ownership - direct access to founding leadership, meaningful input on product direction, and the ability to drive key initiatives from day one.
Location: UK, London
Workplace: OnSite
Here at Humanoid, we believe in a future where robots amplify human potential. That’s why we’ve set out on a mission to build the world’s most capable, commercially-scalable, and safe humanoid robots. We’re bringing that mission to life with HMND‑01 - our rapidly developed humanoid platform being deployed in real industrial environments - and we’re growing the team to take it even further.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
We are looking for a Software Engineer to own the device software and data pipeline for our UMI data collection devices - handheld gripper systems used by human operators to demonstrate manipulation tasks. The data they produce is used to train our robots, so the quality of what you ship determines the quality of robots we deploy.
This is a deeply technical, hands-on role. You will write production-grade device software, build reliable sensor fusion and recording pipelines, and own the validation tooling that keeps our training datasets clean. You will work closely with hardware, AI, and data collection teams.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
- Develop and maintain device software across the full episode lifecycle: session initialisation, per-sensor stream management, episode recording, and graceful shutdown
- Integrate and synchronise sensor streams - wrist and head cameras, 6-DOF pose trackers, gripper aperture encoders, and optionally force/torque sensors - into temporally-aligned, policy-consumable trajectories
- Define and maintain the data contract between UMI devices and the AI team: stream formats, episode packaging, metadata schemas, and the interface between raw recordings and training pipelines
- Build and maintain data validation tooling that detects dropped frames, timing jitter, pose tracking loss, image quality degradation, and sensor faults before corrupt episodes enter the training dataset
- Own operator-facing device software: status indication, start/stop/cancel episode controls, and clear feedback when a session needs to be retried
- Support field data collection sessions - deploying devices to operators, validating data quality in situ, and iterating quickly when issues surface during collection
- Debug integration failures on device hardware: camera driver issues, bus bandwidth saturation, tracker calibration drift, compute thermal throttling, and storage write failures mid-episode
WE’RE LOOKING FOR:
- Experience in embedded or device-level software in a robotics or sensing context - writing code that runs on the device, not just talking to it
- Proficiency in C++ and/or Python for real-time sensor drivers, inter-process communication, and data recording pipelines
- Solid understanding of multi-modal sensor synchronisation - timestamps, hardware triggers, clock drift - and the practical consequences of getting it wrong for downstream ML
- Familiarity with camera pipelines and the difference between what a sensor reports and what actually lands on disk with correct timing
- Strong instincts around data quality and dataset hygiene - you are uncomfortable shipping episodes with frame drops, tracking loss, or misaligned streams
- Proven ability to debug on real hardware: you read logs, attach profilers, and can diagnose whether a problem is a driver, a bus, or a timing issue
NICE TO HAVE:
- Experience with 6-DOF pose tracking systems (VIO, optical trackers, or similar) and their common failure modes
- Familiarity with ML training data formats and what an AI team actually needs from a recorded episode - understanding the consumer of the data you produce
- Exposure to operator-facing tooling for data collection: session management, per-episode quality summaries, rejection and retry workflows
- Experience scaling device software from a small number of prototype units to many devices operated by non-engineers in the field
WHAT WE OFFER
- Competitive equity: stock options with meaningful upside as we scale.
- 30+ paid days off, including 23 days of annual leave, all UK bank holidays, and additional company closure days (including Christmas–New Year shutdown).
- Private healthcare, including virtual and in-person care.
- Pension scheme with 8% total contribution (5% employee, 3% employer) on full earnings.
- Free daily breakfast, catered lunch, and snacks in-office.
- Work at the frontier - collaborate daily with world-class engineers, researchers, and product experts building the next generation of AI and humanoid robotics.
- Real ownership - direct access to founding leadership, meaningful input on product direction, and the ability to drive key initiatives from day one.
Location: UK, London
Workplace: OnSite
Here at Humanoid, we believe in a future where robots amplify human potential. That’s why we’ve set out on a mission to build the world’s most capable, commercially-scalable, and safe humanoid robots. We’re bringing that mission to life with HMND‑01 - our rapidly developed humanoid platform being deployed in real industrial environments - and we’re growing the team to take it even further.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We're hiring a Senior Autonomy Engineer focused on SLAM & Navigation to join our team. In this role, you will bridge the gap between classical spatial geometry and next-generation AI. You will lead the design and development of robust state estimation, long-term mapping, and localisation loops, with a specific focus on integrating modern machine learning techniques and foundation geometry models into our core navigation stack. Your work will ensure our robots possess rock-solid spatial awareness and execute highly reliable trajectories over extended deployments in complex, real-world environments.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Design and scale robust SLAM pipelines that maintain highly accurate localisation and state estimation across dynamic physical spaces.
- Integrate foundation geometry models and modern ML techniques into the localisation loop to enhance traditional spatial tracking, data association, and visual odometry.
- Architect and maintain robust long-term mapping systems that enable robots to autonomously update, manage, and scale spatial maps across changing environments over time.
- Build and scale auto-labeling data pipelines that leverage foundation geometry models to generate high-fidelity spatial ground truth for downstream ML training.
- Bridge classical geometry with deep learning architectures, building hybrid systems that map raw sensor data into globally consistent metric trajectories.
- Deploy and benchmark spatial AI software directly on physical robot hardware, ensuring deterministic, ultra-low latency execution on edge compute.
- Translate cutting-edge spatial AI research into production reality, continuously evaluating breakthroughs in geometric learning to guide our navigation roadmap.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- Deep expertise in classical SLAM and multi-view geometry, including extensive hands-on experience with state estimation, visual/LiDAR odometry, and multi-sensor fusion.
- Experience handling backend map optimization and solving the unique structural challenges associated with long-term mapping in large or changing physical environments.
- Practical experience applying modern ML to geometric problems, with exposure to utilizing or adapting newer foundation geometry models.
- Proven ability to build scalable data pipelines or auto-labeling workflows tailored for geometric and spatial datasets.
- Proficiency in C++ and Python, with a track record of writing clean, highly parallelized, production-grade algorithmic code.
- Hands-on experience deploying navigation systems on physical hardware, with a deep understanding of the practical edge constraints of real-world robotics.
- A research-to-production mindset, capable of tearing through the latest CVPR/ICRA papers and figuring out exactly how to make those models run with bulletproof reliability.
WHAT WE OFFER
- Competitive equity: stock options with meaningful upside as we scale.
- 30+ paid days off, including 23 days of annual leave, all UK bank holidays, and additional company closure days (including Christmas–New Year shutdown).
- Private healthcare, including virtual and in-person care.
- Pension scheme with 8% total contribution (5% employee, 3% employer) on full earnings.
- Free daily breakfast, catered lunch, and snacks in-office.
- Work at the frontier - collaborate daily with world-class engineers, researchers, and product experts building the next generation of AI and humanoid robotics.
- Real ownership - direct access to founding leadership, meaningful input on product direction, and the ability to drive key initiatives from day one.
Location: China
Workplace: OnSite
ABOUT HUMAN ARCHIVE
Human Archive is a research lab backed by Y Combinator focused on modeling human embodied intelligence.
Humans are the most sophisticated biological systems we have ever observed, yet we still do not fully understand ourselves. Research into human physical intelligence — including the human hand, proprioception, and vision — remains largely unsolved. Our mission is to recover human embodied intelligence as a learned model. To achieve this, we build custom hardware products, deploy them globally at scale, and publish research. Today, our data is used for robotics and world modeling, but the broader opportunity is advancing scientific research into intelligence itself.
Founded by Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers, we are lean, deeply technical, and operate at extreme speed, taking on unglamorous and conventionally impossible problems that directly unlock step-function gains in model capability.
The deployment of capable humanoids at scale will permanently redefine human labor. Undesirable physical work will disappear, and human effort will shift toward a new era of abundant creativity.
We are building the infrastructure to accelerate that transition by assembling the Human Archive mafia. You will own meaningful systems from day one and see your work directly impact model capabilities. This is a once-in-a-generation inflection point. If you want to help reshape physical labor and work on problems that matter at civilizational scale, join us.
What you'll work on
The single hardest role on the team. You'll own the entire optics and calibration stack — lens selection, image quality, intrinsics, extrinsics, ISP tuning, multi-camera alignment. End to end.
Optics and sensor selection
- Lens characterization (MTF, distortion, chromatic aberration)
- Sensor variant evaluation and selection
- Optical mount tolerance budget with the mechanical team
- IR filter and lens shading correction approach
Image quality and ISP tuning
- AE, AWB, color matrix, gamma, lens shading correction
- Multi-camera color and exposure consistency
- Image quality validation in mixed real-world lighting
Multi-stage calibration pipeline
- Camera intrinsics and fisheye distortion modeling
- Stereo and multi-camera extrinsics
- Camera-IMU spatial and temporal calibration
- Magnetometer calibration in the assembled stack
Calibration infrastructure
- Rig design and fixture builds (turntables, lighting, targets)
- Calibration software pipeline
- Automated verification and QA systems
- Documentation for factory deployment
Production and field calibration
- Factory-floor calibration procedure
- Per-unit calibration QA gating
- Field calibration drift monitoring
- Sensor / lens transition tooling
Required technical experience
- Hands-on multi-camera calibration (intrinsics, stereo, multi-rig)
- Fisheye distortion modeling (Kannala-Brandt or equivalent)
- IMU calibration: bias, alignment, Allan variance, temperature curves
- Calibration tooling and infrastructure for production
- Comfortable in both the optics lab and the calibration software stack
Strong plus
- OpenCV, Kalibr, or similar calibration frameworks
- ISP tuning on Qualcomm, NXP, or Ambarella platforms
- AR/VR, autonomous vehicle, or research-grade capture device background
- Camera-IMU temporal alignment
- Manufacturing calibration line experience
- Uncertainty quantification and error analysis
About this role Your work determines whether thousands of hours of captured data is usable. Bad calibration is silent — data passes acceptance and fails downstream model training months later. The candidate pool is small. We pay top of band.
Location: US, San Diego, CA
Workplace: OnSite
Here at Humanoid, we believe in a future where robots amplify human potential. That’s why we’ve set out on a mission to build the world’s most capable, commercially-scalable, and safe humanoid robots. We’re bringing that mission to life with HMND‑01 - our rapidly developed humanoid platform being deployed in real industrial environments - and we’re growing the team to take it even further.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We’re scaling from prototypes to manufacturing, and the process maturity needs to match. This role owns the secure manufacturing pipeline — the procedures, tooling, and controls that take a bare board in an untrusted CM facility and turn it into a cryptographically enrolled, OTA-ready device that our cloud fleet trusts. You’ll be the bridge between our secure boot/firmware teams and the cloud control plane, connecting them at the point of manufacture.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Design the secure manufacturing station — Architect the hardware, software, and network stack (HSM, key injection, AWS Private CA) for factory floor provisioning stations. Integrate the secure boot fuse/flashing flow from our secure boot/firmware team.
- Build the provisioning toolchain — Own the automation pipeline that takes a bare device through identity provisioning, enrollment, firmware flashing, calibration, and functional test.
- Bridge device and cloud identity Enroll every device into a registry with correct credentials for OTA, session heartbeating, and deployment tracking.
- Own the End-Of-Line (EOL) test framework — Work with globally distributed teams to define pass/fail criteria for devices leaving the line: sensor calibration, actuator checks, and initial OTA health check.
- Work with contract manufacturers —Translate security requirements into CM-executable procedures; threat-model the factory for key leakage, firmware tampering, and supply chain substitution.
- Maintain chain of custody — Link each physical serial number to its provisioned identity, calibration records, test results, and firmware version at manufacture.
- Collaborate across teams — Work daily with a globally distributed team of firmware, cloud, manufacturing, systems and operational team members.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- 10+ years of experience which includes manufacturing engineering, with a comparable depth of experience developing test tools and frameworks. Plus experience working with networking in a manufacturing environment, and time focused on secure device provisioning and/or secure manufacturing processes. Ideally 3 years at a Staff level or equivalent.
- PKI and device identity — Experience with X.509 certificate lifecycles, mTLS, device authentication and attestation, and managed CA services like AWS Private CA.
- AWS infrastructure — S3, IAM, ECS, KMS, CloudHSM and Secrets Manager for secure provisioning workflows.
- EOL test and calibration — Hands-on experience defining manufacturing test frameworks, experience with hardware test fixtures.
- Scripting and automation — Advanced skills in Python or Bash for developing production-grade provisioning toolchains.
- Advanced skills and understanding of Rust, Bazel, Systemd
- Embedded Linux systems — Experience with NVIDIA Jetson Orin/Thor platforms.
- Secure manufacturing design — Ability to design secure processes for untrusted or semi-trusted offshore CMs and air-gapped station design.
- Experience managing quality gates with contract manufacturers
- Hardware root of trust understanding — General understanding of secure boot chains, TPM/TrustZone, cryptographic key injection, certificate provisioning, and eFuse programming.
WHAT WE OFFER
- Comprehensive health coverage for US‑based employees, including fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, with virtual care and employee assistance resources.
- Meaningful time off to rest and recharge: 23 days of PTO (accrued), separate sick leave, and paid company holidays.
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
- Equity included–we believe builders should share in what they build.
- Free daily catered lunch, snacks, and drinks in‑office.
- Collaboration with top‑tier engineers, researchers, and product experts in AI and robotics.
- Freedom to influence the product and own key initiatives.
For this role in California, the expected base salary range is $260,000–$320,000 USD per year; your placement in that range depends on how your experience maps to our internal leveling.
Location: UK, London
Workplace: OnSite
Here at Humanoid, we believe in a future where robots amplify human potential. That’s why we’ve set out on a mission to build the world’s most capable, commercially-scalable, and safe humanoid robots. We’re bringing that mission to life with HMND‑01 - our rapidly developed humanoid platform being deployed in real industrial environments - and we’re growing the team to take it even further.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are looking for a Robotics Test Engineer to support software release validation, policy evaluations, and end-to-end metrics collection on our humanoid robots. You will work alongside our Test Team, owning day-to-day execution and growing into deeper HIL and automation responsibilities.
This is not a standard web-QA role. You will be running tests on real robots, comparing simulation against reality, and helping us build the data pipeline that tells us whether each new software version is ready to ship.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
SOFTWARE RELEASE TESTING
- Release Validation: Execute the end-to-end test pipeline for each new software release, ensuring quality gates are met before the build is deployed to the fleet.
- Regression Coverage: Run automated and manual regression suites against new builds; triage failures and route them to the right owner.
- CI/CD Participation: Contribute new tests to our CI/CD pipeline (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions) so that regressions are caught immediately after code merges.
2. POLICY EVALUATIONS
- Eval Support: Help design and run policy evaluations for our learned behaviors — defining success criteria, executing trials, and collecting results in a reproducible way.
- Simulation: Run policy evaluations in simulation environments (Gazebo, NVIDIA Isaac Sim) in parallel with physical robot tests.
- Sim-to-Real: Track differences between simulation and physical robot results and feed findings back to the policy team.
3. E2E METRICS COLLECTION
- Metrics Pipeline: Support the collection of end-to-end performance and reliability metrics across releases, building consistent reporting the org can trust.
- Dashboards: Help maintain dashboards that highlight pass/fail rates, latency, and performance trends release-over-release.
- Data Hygiene: Keep test data clean and well-labeled so that long-term trends remain meaningful as the platform evolves.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- Experience: 3+ years in software test engineering or test automation, ideally with some exposure to robotics, embedded systems, or another physical-systems domain.
- Coding: Strong proficiency in Python for scripting and test automation. Comfortable reading C++.
- Robotics Middleware: Working knowledge of ROS2 — you understand topics, services, and how to interact with a running robot.
- OS: Comfortable in Linux (Ubuntu) — terminal, shell scripting, basic system administration.
- Mindset: Methodical and curious. You enjoy finding the one weird edge case that breaks the build.
Nice-to-Have:
- Experience with robotics simulators (Gazebo, NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Unity).
- Exposure to Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) test benches.
- Basic electrical debugging skills (multimeter, oscilloscope).
- Awareness of safety-critical standards (IEC 61508, ISO 26262).
TECH STACK
- Languages: Python (primary), C++ (reading), Bash
- Robotics: ROS / ROS2
- CI/CD: GitLab / GitHub Actions
- Simulation: NVIDIA Isaac Sim
- Hardware Interfaces: CAN, EtherCAT, Ethernet
WHAT WE OFFER
- Meaningful time off to rest and recharge: 23 days of annual leave (accrued), 15 days of paid sick leave, and paid company holidays.
- Fully funded private healthcare for UK employees, with broad provider access, virtual and in‑person care, and strong mental health and serious illness support.
- Equity included–we believe builders should share in what they build.
- Pension scheme with a total 8% contribution (5% employee, 3% employer) on full earnings.
- Free daily breakfast, catered lunch, and snacks in‑office.
- Collaboration with top‑tier engineers, researchers, and product experts in AI and robotics.
- Freedom to influence the product and own key initiatives.
Location: China
Workplace: OnSite
ABOUT HUMAN ARCHIVE
Human Archive is a research lab backed by Y Combinator focused on modeling human embodied intelligence.
Humans are the most sophisticated biological systems we have ever observed, yet we still do not fully understand ourselves. Research into human physical intelligence — including the human hand, proprioception, and vision — remains largely unsolved. Our mission is to recover human embodied intelligence as a learned model. To achieve this, we build custom hardware products, deploy them globally at scale, and publish research. Today, our data is used for robotics and world modeling, but the broader opportunity is advancing scientific research into intelligence itself.
Founded by Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers, we are lean, deeply technical, and operate at extreme speed, taking on unglamorous and conventionally impossible problems that directly unlock step-function gains in model capability.
The deployment of capable humanoids at scale will permanently redefine human labor. Undesirable physical work will disappear, and human effort will shift toward a new era of abundant creativity.
We are building the infrastructure to accelerate that transition by assembling the Human Archive mafia. You will own meaningful systems from day one and see your work directly impact model capabilities. This is a once-in-a-generation inflection point. If you want to help reshape physical labor and work on problems that matter at civilizational scale, join us.
What you'll work on
We're hiring an electrical engineer to lead PCB and power systems for our wearable capture hardware. Dense, high-speed, mixed-signal work in tight wearable form factors.
Compute module integration
- Custom carrier boards for ARM compute modules
- Breakout and routing of high-speed interfaces from compact modules to custom peripherals
- Bring-up coordination with firmware
High-speed PCB design
- End-to-end ownership of rigid-flex and high-density boards
- High-bandwidth interfaces (MIPI CSI-2, SerDes, USB 3.x, PCIe, UFS)
- EMI, crosstalk, and impedance control in space-constrained designs
Power architecture and battery systems
- Power Delivery Networks for double-digit-watt wearable loads
- Battery management for field-swappable cell architectures
- Fuel gauging and runtime estimation
- Transient load behavior and power sequencing
Sensor and peripheral integration
- Multi-camera array electrical integration
- Inertial, magnetic, acoustic, and environmental sensor wiring
- Low-noise analog rails and shared precision clock distribution
Bring-up, debugging, and validation
- Board bring-up alongside firmware
- Signal integrity, power integrity, and timing diagnosis
- EMC pre-scans and compliance support
Required technical experience
- Strong PCB design in Altium, Cadence Allegro, or KiCad
- High-speed digital design: differential pair routing, impedance control, stack-up
- SI/PI simulation and validation
- Compute module / SoM carrier board experience
- Lab debugging instincts (scope, logic analyzer, network analyzer)
Strong plus
- Multi-camera array design (3+ concurrent cameras)
- High-speed SerDes routing
- ARM SoC carrier work (Qualcomm, NXP, or similar)
- Wearable / body-worn product background
- Hot-swap power design
- FCC / CE / RoHS compliance and DFM handoff experience
About this role You own electrical design end-to-end — schematic through bring-up through production-ready DFM. The interface stack is broad, the form factor is tight, and the boards you design end up on real users. Mistakes show up in the field within weeks. You'll iterate fast.
Location: China
Workplace: OnSite
ABOUT HUMAN ARCHIVE
Human Archive is a research lab backed by Y Combinator focused on modeling human embodied intelligence.
Humans are the most sophisticated biological systems we have ever observed, yet we still do not fully understand ourselves. Research into human physical intelligence — including the human hand, proprioception, and vision — remains largely unsolved. Our mission is to recover human embodied intelligence as a learned model. To achieve this, we build custom hardware products, deploy them globally at scale, and publish research. Today, our data is used for robotics and world modeling, but the broader opportunity is advancing scientific research into intelligence itself.
Founded by Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers, we are lean, deeply technical, and operate at extreme speed, taking on unglamorous and conventionally impossible problems that directly unlock step-function gains in model capability.
The deployment of capable humanoids at scale will permanently redefine human labor. Undesirable physical work will disappear, and human effort will shift toward a new era of abundant creativity.
We are building the infrastructure to accelerate that transition by assembling the Human Archive mafia. You will own meaningful systems from day one and see your work directly impact model capabilities. This is a once-in-a-generation inflection point. If you want to help reshape physical labor and work on problems that matter at civilizational scale, join us.
What you'll work on
We're hiring a firmware engineer to own the embedded software stack on our wearable capture hardware. Close-to-the-metal work at the intersection of high-bandwidth sensor data, precise timing, and constrained-power embedded compute. You read schematics, debug buses, and know when the bug is in firmware versus when it's in hardware.
System architecture
- Firmware architecture on embedded Linux on ARM
- System state machines: boot, capture, idle, fault recovery
- Power management states and low-power transitions
Sensor integration and timing
- Drivers for cameras, IMUs, microphones, environmental sensors
- Sub-millisecond cross-sensor synchronization
- Hardware-level timestamping infrastructure
- Real-time sensor data alignment
- Lightweight on-device fusion for orientation and worn-state estimation (Kalman variants)
Data pipeline
- Multi-stream concurrent capture
- Hardware video encoder pipelines
- High-throughput storage writes
- Industry-standard delivery format packing
Connectivity and fleet operations
- Device-to-backend telemetry (battery, storage, session state, error events)
- Secure OTA firmware updates with signed images and rollback protection
- Remote configuration and fleet management commands
- Communication protocols for device-cloud messaging (MQTT-over-TLS, HTTPS, WebSockets)
Hardware / software bring-up
- Firmware-side board bring-up alongside electrical engineers
- Validate hardware interfaces (I²C, SPI, USB, MIPI)
- Diagnose timing, power sequencing, and communication faults
Required technical experience
- Strong C/C++ for embedded systems on ARM
- Python for testing, tooling, and automation
- Camera driver experience (V4L2 or equivalent)
- Deep familiarity with embedded interfaces: MIPI CSI-2, I²C, SPI, USB, interrupts
- Comfortable reading schematics and datasheets
Systems and concurrency
- Interrupts, race conditions, memory constraints, real-time scheduling
- RTOS concepts and multi-threaded embedded environments
Strong plus
- Qualcomm, NXP, or Ambarella BSP experience
- SerDes driver integration
- Hardware H.264 / H.265 encoder pipelines
- Precise timing and synchronization (PTP, IEEE 1588)
- High-bandwidth data acquisition
- Sensor fusion and Kalman filter implementation
- OTA infrastructure for deployed fleets
- IoT telemetry stacks (MQTT, AWS IoT, Azure IoT Hub, or similar)
- ROS, MCAP, or Foxglove
About this role Deep systems work. Long hours in the lab during board bring-up. Drivers nobody has written for the silicon you're working with. Firmware that runs unattended on real users for full shifts — and gets updated remotely without ever recalling a device.
Location: China
Workplace: OnSite
ABOUT HUMAN ARCHIVE
Human Archive is a research lab backed by Y Combinator focused on modeling human embodied intelligence.
Humans are the most sophisticated biological systems we have ever observed, yet we still do not fully understand ourselves. Research into human physical intelligence — including the human hand, proprioception, and vision — remains largely unsolved. Our mission is to recover human embodied intelligence as a learned model. To achieve this, we build custom hardware products, deploy them globally at scale, and publish research. Today, our data is used for robotics and world modeling, but the broader opportunity is advancing scientific research into intelligence itself.
Founded by Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers, we are lean, deeply technical, and operate at extreme speed, taking on unglamorous and conventionally impossible problems that directly unlock step-function gains in model capability.
The deployment of capable humanoids at scale will permanently redefine human labor. Undesirable physical work will disappear, and human effort will shift toward a new era of abundant creativity.
We are building the infrastructure to accelerate that transition by assembling the Human Archive mafia. You will own meaningful systems from day one and see your work directly impact model capabilities. This is a once-in-a-generation inflection point. If you want to help reshape physical labor and work on problems that matter at civilizational scale, join us.
We're hiring a mechanical / CAD engineer to lead the mechanical design of our wearable capture hardware. Hands-on work where physics, optics, manufacturing, and human factors all converge.
What you'll work on
Mechanical architecture
- Chassis design across consumer-grade and production-grade materials
- Packaging, weight distribution, and human fit
- Serviceability and assembly architecture
Optical mount and alignment
- Camera and lens mounting systems for multi-camera arrays
- Tolerance stack-up against calibration accuracy targets
- Kinematic alignment systems and bonded inserts
Power and battery packaging
- Battery enclosures including swap mechanisms
- Connector layout and cable routing
- Drop and impact resistance
Thermal management
- Passive thermal dissipation in tight wearable form factors
- Heat spreader integration with chassis materials
- Touch-temperature constraints against the user
DFM and manufacturing handoff
- Design for CNC, injection molding, sheet metal, and composite layup
- Production drawings, GD&T, fixture design
- Tolerance verification and first-article inspection
Required technical experience
- Hands-on mechanical CAD: SolidWorks, NX, Creo, or Fusion 360
- Shipped consumer or wearable hardware to real users
- DFM fluency across CNC, injection molding, and sheet metal
- Tolerance stack-up and GD&T for precision optical systems
- Structural and thermal FEA
Strong plus
- Head-worn or body-worn product background (AR/VR, action cameras, sports tech, smart eyewear)
- Composite chassis design (carbon fiber, cyanate ester matrix)
- Multi-camera optical alignment
- Direct work with Asian ODMs and tooling shops
- Background in research-grade capture systems or medical wearables
About this role You own mechanical design end-to-end. The product surface is broad, the pace is fast, and your work ends up on real users within months. Compensation reflects the stage. The autonomy reflects it too.
Location: Global
ABOUT HUMAN ARCHIVE
Human Archive is a research lab focused on modeling human embodied intelligence.
Humans are the most sophisticated biological systems we have ever observed, yet we still do not fully understand ourselves. Research into human physical intelligence — including the human hand, proprioception, and vision — remains largely unsolved. Our mission is to recover human embodied intelligence as a learned model. To achieve this, we build custom hardware products, deploy them globally at scale, and publish research. Today, our data is used for robotics and world modeling, but the broader opportunity is advancing scientific research into intelligence itself.
Founded by Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers, we are lean, deeply technical, and operate at extreme speed, taking on unglamorous and conventionally impossible problems that directly unlock step-function gains in model capability.
The deployment of capable humanoids at scale will permanently redefine human labor. Undesirable physical work will disappear, and human effort will shift toward a new era of abundant creativity.
We are building the infrastructure to accelerate that transition by assembling the Human Archive mafia. You will own meaningful systems from day one and see your work directly impact model capabilities. This is a once-in-a-generation inflection point. If you want to help reshape physical labor and work on problems that matter at civilizational scale, join us.
THE OPPORTUNITY
This role is ideal for someone early in their career (1–5 years of experience, or an exceptional dropout) who wants real operational ownership, not a rotational apprenticeship. You’ll work closely with the co-founders and Head of Operations in a high-trust role at the center of execution at Human Archive.
As a Founding Operations Manager, you will own the end-to-end lifecycle of field operations globally, including sourcing and structuring partnerships to unlock access to real-world labor environments, deploying and supporting field teams, and ensuring clean data offload, audit, and closure. Your mandate is to turn site access into reliable, repeatable, high-velocity data collection, even in messy, real-world conditions.
You will build and run core operating systems: coordinating site readiness, managing kits and logistics, leading large field teams during on-site execution, and enforcing post-site workflows that guarantee data quality and operational closure. This is a hands-on execution role: you’ll plan, but you’ll also be on the ground supporting field teams, unblocking hardware and deployment issues, tightening processes, and making sure things actually get done.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Source and manage deployment partnerships globally
- Own field operations from site readiness through post-site closure
- Lead field teams and ensure reliable execution during deployments
- Run high-velocity data collection campaigns under real-world constraints
- Work directly with sensing hardware, deployment kits, upload systems, and offloading workflows
- Troubleshoot hardware, deployment, and operational issues in the field
- Improve operational systems across deployments, audits, inventory, and payouts
- Work closely with hardware, software, and operations teams during deployments
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- Strong execution ability and willingness to take ownership in fast-moving environments
- Ability to manage deployments and field teams under real-world constraints
- Strong technical intuition and comfort working directly with hardware and operational tooling
- Strong communication skills and ability to make decisions quickly with limited information
- Highly resilient, resourceful, and comfortable solving difficult operational problems
- Prior experience in operations, logistics, consulting, marketplaces, field work, or startups is a plus
Location: San Francisco
ABOUT HUMAN ARCHIVE
Human Archive is a research lab backed by Y Combinator focused on modeling human embodied intelligence.
Humans are the most sophisticated biological systems we have ever observed, yet we still do not fully understand ourselves. Research into human physical intelligence — including the human hand, proprioception, and vision — remains largely unsolved. Our mission is to recover human embodied intelligence as a learned model. To achieve this, we build custom hardware products, deploy them globally at scale, and publish research. Today, our data is used for robotics and world modeling, but the broader opportunity is advancing scientific research into intelligence itself.
Founded by Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers, we are lean, deeply technical, and operate at extreme speed, taking on unglamorous and conventionally impossible problems that directly unlock step-function gains in model capability.
The deployment of capable humanoids at scale will permanently redefine human labor. Undesirable physical work will disappear, and human effort will shift toward a new era of abundant creativity.
We are building the infrastructure to accelerate that transition by assembling the Human Archive mafia. You will own meaningful systems from day one and see your work directly impact model capabilities. This is a once-in-a-generation inflection point. If you want to help reshape physical labor and work on problems that matter at civilizational scale, join us.
THE OPPORTUNITY
As a Research Engineer, you’ll work on multimodal sensing systems and sensor fusion research for embodied AI and robotics. This role sits at the intersection of robotics, perception, hardware systems, and machine learning, where your work directly shapes how multimodal data is collected, synchronized, fused, and used for downstream VLA training.
You’ll research emerging sensing technologies across RGB-D video, motion capture, IMUs, tactile sensing, audio, and wearable systems, and study how different sensor combinations impact robot learning, policy performance, and generalization. You’ll work closely with hardware, ML, and research teams to design experiments, evaluate new sensing stacks, and help define the next generation of multimodal robotics datasets.
Your work will help shape how frontier labs and leading robotics companies train their models, transforming physical labor markets and economies while contributing to broader research into human embodied intelligence.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Evaluate how different sensor modalities impact VLA training and downstream robotics performance
- Work across RGB-D video, IMUs, motion capture, tactile sensing, audio, and wearable systems data
- Design experiments around synchronization, calibration, fusion, and multimodal alignment
- Prototype quickly and iterate from real-world robotics deployments and research feedback
- Collaborate closely with hardware, ML, and research teams on next-generation sensing systems
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- Master’s or PhD in robotics, computer vision, sensing systems, or related fields
- Published research in sensor fusion, perception systems, multimodal datasets, or embodied AI
- Strong technical intuition around hardware systems and robot learning
- Experience with RGB-D video, IMUs, motion capture, tactile sensing, or robotics systems
- Experience with reinforcement learning, real-world robot deployments, and how data impacts downstream policy performance
- Highly curious, execution-oriented, and comfortable operating from first principles
Location: China
Workplace: OnSite
ABOUT HUMAN ARCHIVE
Human Archive is a research lab backed by Y Combinator focused on modeling human embodied intelligence.
Humans are the most sophisticated biological systems we have ever observed, yet we still do not fully understand ourselves. Research into human physical intelligence — including the human hand, proprioception, and vision — remains largely unsolved. Our mission is to recover human embodied intelligence as a learned model. To achieve this, we build custom hardware products, deploy them globally at scale, and publish research. Today, our data is used for robotics and world modeling, but the broader opportunity is advancing scientific research into intelligence itself.
Founded by Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers, we are lean, deeply technical, and operate at extreme speed, taking on unglamorous and conventionally impossible problems that directly unlock step-function gains in model capability.
The deployment of capable humanoids at scale will permanently redefine human labor. Undesirable physical work will disappear, and human effort will shift toward a new era of abundant creativity.
We are building the infrastructure to accelerate that transition by assembling the Human Archive mafia. You will own meaningful systems from day one and see your work directly impact model capabilities. This is a once-in-a-generation inflection point. If you want to help reshape physical labor and work on problems that matter at civilizational scale, join us.
HARDWARE SUPPLY CHAIN LEAD (SHENZHEN)
The most important operational role on the hardware program. You live in Shenzhen, walk the factory floor, and own the ODM relationship and the component supply.
What you'll work on
ODM relationship and program management
- Day-to-day relationship with our manufacturing partner
- SOW, milestone schedule, and deliverable tracking
- On-site issue resolution at the factory
- Contract negotiations and quarterly reviews
Component sourcing
- Allocations for critical components (industrial image sensors, IMUs, MEMS sensors, lenses, Li-ion cells)
- Pricing, lead times, MOQs across the Chinese supply chain
- Backup supplier lists for every critical part
- Long-lead component buffer management
Factory operations
- In-person factory visits, line audits, first-article inspections, NPI runs
- Floor QA and incoming material inspection
- Yield improvement and corrective action plans
- Translation between English-speaking engineering and Mandarin-speaking factory teams
DFM and manufacturing liaison
- DFM reviews between our engineering team and the ODM's process engineers
- Test fixture and assembly line design
- Real-time production blocker resolution
Commercial and compliance
- Contracts, NDAs, IP protection arrangements with Chinese partners
- BOM cost tracking and cost-down sweeps
- FCC, CE, RoHS, REACH documentation
Required experience
- Mandarin-native plus business-fluent English
- Resident in Shenzhen or willing to relocate
- 5+ years in hardware supply chain or ODM management roles in China
- Deep working network across the Chinese consumer electronics supply chain
- Comfortable on factory floors and in vendor meetings, not just on email
Strong plus
- Background at a hardware company building head-worn, body-worn, or consumer camera products (DJI, Insta360, GoPro, Meta, Anker, Goertek, etc.)
- Sony industrial sensor allocation experience
- Prior relationships at Tier-1 Chinese ODMs
- Scaling hardware from <100 to 10,000+ units/year
About this role You're our senior presence in China from day one. Supply chain runs on trust and proximity. Fly to factories, walk lines, negotiate over dinner. If that sounds tedious, you'll hate it. If it sounds like the job, you'll have more autonomy than most VPs.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: OnSite
ABOUT HUMAN ARCHIVE
Human Archive is a research lab focused on modeling human embodied intelligence.
Humans are the most sophisticated biological systems we have ever observed, yet we still do not fully understand ourselves. Research into human physical intelligence — including the human hand, proprioception, and vision — remains largely unsolved. Our mission is to recover human embodied intelligence as a learned model. To achieve this, we build custom hardware products, deploy them globally at scale, and publish research. Today, our data is used for robotics and world modeling, but the broader opportunity is advancing scientific research into intelligence itself.
Founded by Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers, we are lean, deeply technical, and operate at extreme speed, taking on unglamorous and conventionally impossible problems that directly unlock step-function gains in model capability.
The deployment of capable humanoids at scale will permanently redefine human labor. Undesirable physical work will disappear, and human effort will shift toward a new era of abundant creativity.
We are building the infrastructure to accelerate that transition by assembling the Human Archive mafia. You will own meaningful systems from day one and see your work directly impact model capabilities. This is a once-in-a-generation inflection point. If you want to help reshape physical labor and work on problems that matter at civilizational scale, join us.
THE OPPORTUNITY
As a Machine Learning Engineer, you’ll work on multimodal perception, VLA training, robotics post-training, and downstream policy evaluation. This is a hands-on role at the intersection of applied machine learning, data infrastructure, and robotics, where your work directly shapes how data is collected, validated, annotated, and evaluated.
You’ll help close the loop between research and data collection by fine-tuning VLAs on downstream policy performance and building post-training and reinforcement learning systems around real-world robotics tasks. You’ll be expected to make architectural decisions, own projects end-to-end, and operate in highly ambiguous research environments given the novelty and scale of our multimodal datasets.
Your work will help shape how frontier labs and leading robotics companies train their models, transforming physical labor markets and economies while contributing to broader research into human embodied intelligence.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Build systems for multimodal perception, annotation, dataset QA, and robotics evaluation
- Publish research on multimodal data by fine-tuning and evaluating VLA models on downstream robotics tasks and policy performance
- Build post-training and reinforcement learning systems around robotics failure modes and corrective demonstrations
- Work across video understanding, tracking, pose estimation, temporal modeling, and multimodal alignment
- Develop tooling for benchmarking, observability, and temporal efficiency
- Prototype quickly, ship rapidly, and iterate from real-world robotics deployments and research feedback
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- Passionate, mission-driven individuals who have demonstrated exceptional ownership in previous work
- Engineers who want their work to directly impact the next frontier of physical AGI
- Strong ML engineering fundamentals across robotics, computer vision, and perception systems
- Experience with video understanding, tracking, pose estimation, robotics, or real-world sensor systems
- Strong technical intuition and ability to move quickly in ambiguous research environments
- Published research or production experience in robotics, embodied AI, reinforcement learning, motion capture, or vision systems is a strong plus
Location: San Francisco
ABOUT HUMAN ARCHIVE
Human Archive is a research lab focused on modeling human embodied intelligence.
Humans are the most sophisticated biological systems we have ever observed, yet we still do not fully understand ourselves. Research into human physical intelligence — including the human hand, proprioception, and vision — remains largely unsolved. Our mission is to recover human embodied intelligence as a learned model. To achieve this, we build custom hardware products, deploy them globally at scale, and publish research. Today, our data is used for robotics and world modeling, but the broader opportunity is advancing scientific research into intelligence itself.
Founded by Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers, we are lean, deeply technical, and operate at extreme speed, taking on unglamorous and conventionally impossible problems that directly unlock step-function gains in model capability.
The deployment of capable humanoids at scale will permanently redefine human labor. Undesirable physical work will disappear, and human effort will shift toward a new era of abundant creativity.
We are building the infrastructure to accelerate that transition by assembling the Human Archive mafia. You will own meaningful systems from day one and see your work directly impact model capabilities. This is a once-in-a-generation inflection point. If you want to help reshape physical labor and work on problems that matter at civilizational scale, join us.
About the Role
This is a full-stack hardware engineering role spanning mechanical, electrical, firmware, embedded systems, and manufacturing. The engineer in this role will own integration across all layers of the system and drive manufacturing execution in China — from vendor selection through production ramp.
You will work directly on wearable sensing systems involving synchronized cameras, motion capture, tactile sensing, embedded compute, and power systems operating under real-world deployment constraints.
Mandarin fluency and established relationships in Chinese manufacturing are required. A background in mechatronics, systems engineering, robotics, or embedded hardware is strongly preferred.
Open to exceptional new graduates and early-career engineers (2023–2026).
What You’ll Do
- Lead hardware engineering and manufacturing execution for Human Archive’s multimodal wearable systems
- Own integration across power systems, sensor synchronization, embedded compute, thermal systems, and mechanical packaging
- Debug failures across electrical, firmware, thermal, RF, and mechanical layers under real-world deployment conditions
- Review CAD, schematics, PCB layouts, and embedded firmware behavior and drive corrective action with engineering justification
- Prototype, wear-test, deploy, and iterate rapidly on wearable sensing systems used in large-scale global operations
- Work directly with stereo depth cameras, IMUs, motion capture systems, tactile hardware, and embedded sensing platforms
- Coordinate across hardware, software, operations, and data teams to translate product requirements into manufacturable systems under aggressive timelines
What We’re Looking For
- Strong background in mechatronics, robotics, systems engineering, embedded systems, or equivalent hands-on experience
- Experience building battery-powered electronics, embedded Linux systems, sensor integration systems, or wearable hardware
- Ability to debug hardware and embedded systems using serial tools, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and low-level debugging workflows
- Strong mechanical judgment with the ability to review CAD and identify structural, ergonomic, thermal, or reliability issues
- Ability to move quickly in ambiguous, high-ownership environments with aggressive timelines
- Strong communication skills and ability to coordinate across engineering, manufacturing, and operations teams
- Comfortable operating as both an individual contributor and technical leader in a fast-moving startup environment
Strong Plus
- Mandarin fluency and active manufacturing relationships in China (Shenzhen, Dongguan, or equivalent ecosystems)
- Experience working with motion capture systems, IMUs, stereo depth cameras, tactile sensing, or wearable robotics
- Experience bringing hardware products from prototype through mass production deployment
- Experience working on robotics, embodied AI, multimodal sensing, or large-scale wearable systems
Location
Globally deployed. Primary operational presence in China (Shenzhen / Dongguan) and San Francisco.
Location: UK, London
Workplace: OnSite
Here at Humanoid, we believe in a future where robots amplify human potential. That’s why we’ve set out on a mission to build the world’s most capable, commercially-scalable, and safe humanoid robots. We’re bringing that mission to life with HMND‑01 - our rapidly developed humanoid platform being deployed in real industrial environments - and we’re growing the team to take it even further.
ROBOTICS PRODUCTION TEAM LEAD (MECHATRONICS)
Humanoid is the first AI and robotics company in the UK, creating the world’s most advanced, reliable, commercially scalable, and safe humanoid robots. Our first humanoid robot HMND 01 is a next-gen labour automation unit, providing highly efficient services across various use cases, starting with industrial applications.
OUR MISSION
At Humanoid we strive to create the world’s leading, commercially scalable, safe, and advanced humanoid robots that seamlessly integrate into daily life and amplify human capacity.
VISION
In a world where artificial intelligence opens up new horizons, our faith in its potential unveils a new outlook where, together, humans and machines build a new future filled with knowledge, inspiration, and incredible discoveries. The development of a functional humanoid robot underpins an era of abundance and well-being where poverty will disappear, and people will be able to choose what they want to do. We believe that providing a universal basic income will eventually be a true evolution of our civilization
SOLUTION
As the demands on our built environment rise, labour shortages loom. With the world’s workforce increasingly moving away from undesirable tasks, the manufacturing, construction, and logistics industries critical to our daily lives are left exposed. By deploying our general-purpose humanoid robots in environments deemed hazardous or monotonous, we envision a future where human well-being is safeguarded while closing the gaps in critical global labour needs.
About the Role
As Robotics Production Team Lead, you’ll be responsible for leading a team of technicians in complex, high-velocity humanoid robotic builds. You’ll be accountable for the quality, pace, and consistency of your own output as well as that of your team, whilst clearly and concisely communicating risks and blockers to the senior leadership team. You’ll be expected to keep your team engaged and empowered, maintaining the balance between quality and speed. You’ll use your skills and expertise to facilitate the identification and resolution of electrical and mechanical build issues, partnering and engaging with subject matter experts from across the business. Furthermore, you’ll own the culture of your team, driving workshop standards and an unwavering pride in workmanship.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Leadership
- Lead a team of technicians in robotics assembly, rework, and repair
- Report on delivery, risks, and blockers to the department head
- Own and drive team culture to ensure efficiency, safety, and quality
- Lead by example as someone who embodies the values and ethics of the team they are leading.
- Demonstrate and embed a continuous improvement culture within your team
- Allocate and track the progress of build work orders
- Unblock challenges encountered by your team, escalating blockers where necessary
- Pro-actively identify delivery risks, and work with your team and the senior leadership team to address them
Hands-On Assembly & Integration
- Build electro-mechanical assemblies according to CAD, drawings, and work instructions.
- Perform precise mechanical assembly, harness routing, sensor installation, and connectorisation.
- Support first-article builds, iterations, and rapid design changes.
- Flag issues early and collaborate with engineering to implement fixes.
Support Validation, Debug & Test
- Assist in functional testing of subassemblies and full robots.
- Identify and resolve build or performance issues in real time.
- Work closely with test and integration teams to ensure system readiness.
Be a High-Speed Collaborator
- Communicate clearly with engineers, fellow technicians, and operations.
- Adapt quickly to changing priorities—jump in wherever help is needed.
- Contribute ideas to improve speed, reliability, and quality of builds.
WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- Experienced in leading teams in electromechanical assembly or engineering product development
- 3+ years of experience in electromechanical assembly or hand-assembly of complex systems.
- Proven ability to work with mechanical, electrical, and embedded systems
- Strong attention to detail and a deep sense of build quality and safety.
- Ability to read CAD, mechanical drawings, and wiring diagrams.
- Hands-on experience with common tools, fixtures, soldering, harness assembly, etc.
- You move fast, stay organized, and take pride in solving problems in real time.
- Comfortable working in a fluid, high-urgency environment with evolving designs and short timelines.
WHAT WE OFFER
- Competitive salary plus participation in our Stock Option Plan
- Paid vacation with adjustments based on your location to comply with local labor laws
- Travel opportunities to our Boston and Vancouver offices
- Office perks: free breakfasts and lunches
- Freedom to influence the product and own key initiatives
- Collaboration with top‑tier engineers, researchers, and product experts in AI and robotics
- Startup culture prioritising speed, transparency, and minimal bureaucracy.
Location: US, Boston, MA
Workplace: OnSite
Here at Humanoid, we believe in a future where robots amplify human potential. That’s why we’ve set out on a mission to build the world’s most capable, commercially-scalable, and safe humanoid robots. We’re bringing that mission to life with HMND‑01 - our rapidly developed humanoid platform being deployed in real industrial environments - and we’re growing the team to take it even further.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer on the Core Platform team, you’ll play a key part in turning ambitious, open-ended ideas into high-performing, real-world robotics solutions. Your work will span hands-on design, collaborative prototyping, and technical validation, driving innovation in mechanisms, and structures. You’ll develop detailed CAD models and documentation, ensure manufacturability and safety, and work closely with cross-disciplinary teams and vendors—all while adapting to rapidly evolving project needs. This is an opportunity for creative engineers who thrive on solving complex problems and shaping the future of robotic design.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Interpret Open-Ended Design Requirements: Help transform broad project requirements into detailed, pragmatic design specifications for new systems and components.
- Collaborate Across Disciplines: Work with engineers from various disciplines to brainstorm, design, and develop prototype robots that meet challenging performance targets.
- Innovate with Mechanisms and Structures: Design and refine innovative mechanisms, interfaces, and structures that elevate robot performance, from energy-absorbing crash protection to ergonomic robot coverings.
- CAD Design & Documentation: Create and manage CAD models, engineering drawings, assembly documentation, and test plans for parts and assemblies.
- Analysis and Validation: Perform necessary analyses on new designs, validate them through bench tests, and ensure that they meet all performance, safety, and manufacturability standards.
- Troubleshoot and Implement Solutions: Identify and resolve design issues by determining root causes and implementing effective corrective and preventative measures.
- Vendor Management: Collaborate with external vendors for components and assemblies that require outsourcing, ensuring that third-party designs meet Humanoid’s stringent requirements.
- Adapt to Changing Needs: Stay flexible and responsive to changing project requirements while maintaining a team-first, collaborative mindset.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- BSME with 5+ years of relevant experience
- Experience designing high‑performance mechanical structures, motion mechanisms, and integrated systems, ideally in robotics or comparable high‑precision fields.
- Advanced proficiency in CAD software (NX, SolidWorks, Creo etc.) with experience in FEA and topology optimization. We use Siemens NX.
- Strong understanding of ASME drafting standards, including GD&T (Y14.5-2018).
- Experience transitioning designs from early concepts (NPI, EVT, DVT) to production.
- Familiarity with production processes such as casting, sheet metal, stamping, hydroforming, composites, and compliant energy-absorbing structures.
- Experience designing lightweight, high-performance structures, compliant mechanisms, and flexible energy-absorbing designs.
- Creative and collaborative thinking with a team-first mentality.
WHAT WE OFFER
- Comprehensive health coverage for US‑based employees, including fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, with virtual care and employee assistance resources.
- Meaningful time off to rest and recharge: 23 days of PTO (accrued), separate sick leave, and paid company holidays.
- 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match.
- Equity included–we believe builders should share in what they build.
- Free daily catered lunch, snacks, and drinks in‑office.
- Collaboration with top‑tier engineers, researchers, and product experts in AI and robotics.
- Freedom to influence the product and own key initiatives.
For this role in Massachusetts, the expected base salary range is $160K–$215K USD per year; your placement in that range depends on how your experience maps to our internal leveling.
Location: US, Boston, MA
Workplace: OnSite
Here at Humanoid, we believe in a future where robots amplify human potential. That’s why we’ve set out on a mission to build the world’s most capable, commercially-scalable, and safe humanoid robots. We’re bringing that mission to life with HMND‑01 - our rapidly developed humanoid platform being deployed in real industrial environments - and we’re growing the team to take it even further.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As a Senior Platform Software Engineer at Humanoid, you will be at the heart of developing the core OS, data networks and protocols, and fundamental software subsystems for our next-generation humanoid robots. You will help develop the foundational software architectures that allow high fidelity robotic controls and AI development. You will be responsible for writing high-integrity software that runs on our robots, integrating sensors, safety systems, and computing platforms to enable safe human-robot collaboration.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to take full ownership of new systems and directly contribute to the development of our future products. If you are interested in complex embedded software projects, thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, and want to make a real impact on the future of human-robot interaction, we want you on our team!
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Design & Create Embedded Software: Develop and validate embedded software that ensures our robots can operate at scale in the real world.
- Hardware & Software Integration: Work at the intersection of hardware and software to integrate various robotic components (e.g., sensors, actuators, computing platforms) into a cohesive, fault-tolerant system.
- Lead Cross-Functional Projects: Lead interdisciplinary projects that involve robotic perception, computing subsystems, and software integration, collaborating with engineers across multiple domains.
- Test & Evaluate Systems: Integrate new systems with our robots to test, validate, and ensure that they meet safety requirements and perform reliably in real-world conditions.
- Build Infrastructure for Innovation: Contribute to the development of tools, infrastructure, and operational practices within a small, agile R&D team focused on unlocking new capabilities for Humanoid robots.
- Drive Safety in Robotics: Be part of a team working at the cutting edge of technology to improve the safety and performance of robots operating in real-world, human-centric environments.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with electrical engineers, software developers, robotics control experts, physical AI developers, and other team members to integrate software systems with robotics hardware, ensuring seamless operation and performance.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- 5+ years of experience developing and deploying production software in embedded systems running Linux (C++, C, Rust, Python, Go).
- Experience developing time-sensitive, performance-critical applications.
- Thorough understanding of Ethernet and IP networking and higher-level protocols like HTTP or gRPC.
- Experience with Linux build environments like Yocto or Buildroot.
- Experience in building Linux kernels and modifying or writing device drivers.
- Experience with NVIDIA’s Jetson platform is a plus.
- Experience working with sensor data, including cameras, lidars, radars, and IMUs is a plus.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to write clear technical documentation and deliver presentations on complex topics.
- Proven history of leading cross-functional technical projects, including developing technical requirements and driving collaboration across teams.
- Experience working in small, agile teams with fast iteration cycles and interdisciplinary collaboration.
WHAT WE OFFER
- Comprehensive health coverage for US‑based employees, including fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, with virtual care and employee assistance resources.
- Meaningful time off to rest and recharge: 23 days of PTO (accrued), separate sick leave, and paid company holidays.
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
- Equity included–we believe builders should share in what they build.
- Free daily catered lunch, snacks, and drinks in‑office.
- Collaboration with top‑tier engineers, researchers, and product experts in AI and robotics.
- Freedom to influence the product and own key initiatives.
For this role in Massachusetts, the expected base salary range is $180K–$250K USD per year; your placement in that range depends on how your experience maps to our internal leveling.
ОфисUK, London
ОфисUK, London
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