Robotics Engineer

About the role

Robotics Engineer — Early Team (SF)

We’re a seed-stage team in San Francisco building robotic systems to automate real-world lab workflows. Most lab processes today are still manual, slow, and error-prone.

Our goal is to build a fully autonomous, “black-box” lab — systems that can take in high-level inputs and run physical workflows end-to-end without human intervention.

We’re not there yet. The system is still evolving, and a big part of this role is figuring out what actually works and making it reliable.

What you’ll do

- Design and build mechanical and electromechanical subsystems

- Write the code that actually runs the system (control logic, sequencing, hardware interfaces)

- Bring up new hardware and get it working end-to-end

- Debug failures across the full system — mechanical, electrical, and software

- Iterate until systems are stable and repeatable, not just working once

Required

- You’ve built and delivered at least one complex physical system with real ownership

- You’re comfortable writing code that interfaces directly with hardware

- Strong ability in at least one area:

- Mechanical design

- Controls

- Embedded / systems programming

- Experience working with motors, sensors, and power in a real system

- Good at solving unexpected problems

Preferred

- Experience building systems that had to run reliably over time, not just demos

- Experience integrating multiple subsystems into a working system

- Prior startup, lab, or independent build experience

What this role requires

- Ownership — you will be responsible for real parts of the system

- Comfort with ambiguity — we are still figuring things out

- Speed — we build and iterate quickly

Details

- San Francisco (in-person)

- Compensation: $140k–$220k + equity

See the posting on Anthrogen's site