Senior Robotics Engineer

Gardena, Los Angeles
Full-time
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About the role

We’re looking for an experienced roboticist to work with our team in maintaining, improving, and battle-readying our our end-to-end robotic workforce solution. You’ll possibly work or lead various different projects such as robot and teleoperation design, control systems, or fleet control and navigation optimization.

  • Qualifications/Requirements
  • 5+ years software engineering experience, including 3+ in robotics, aerospace, or other physical domains.
  • Proven experience leading software teams and delivering production systems for real hardware.
  • Strong C++ and Python skills
  • Familiarity with Docker deployment
  • Experience with real-time or near-real-time control systems and hardware–software integration.
  • Strong understanding of modern software practices including: Git, code review, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.)
  • Experience managing sensor data pipelines (stereo/RGB cameras, Lidar, IMUs, force/torque).
  • Experience with ROS/ROS 2
  • Linux
  • Nice To Haves
  • Proficiency in profiling and optimizing C++/Python code for systems with limited compute and memory resources.
  • Experience with simulation environments (Gazebo, Isaac Sim, etc.).
  • Experience building low-latency networking and communication systems for teleoperation.
  • Background in computer vision, perception, ML-based detection/pose estimation, or SLAM.
  • Experience in startup or fast-paced R&D environments, including hiring and mentoring teams.
  • Things that make you an ideal fit:
  • You are excited to remain hands-on in the code while unblocking your team and facilitating technical decisions rather than dictating them.

About Yondu

Robots to Automate Fulfillment

Required skills

Bash/Shell
C++
Python
Linux
Docker
Sensor integration

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Job details

Salary

$120,000 - $200,000

Equity

0.5% - 1.6%

Location

Gardena, Los Angeles

Experience

3+ years

Company

NameYondu
IndustryManufacturing and Robotics
Team Size12

Funding

Total raised

$500K

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator

Founders

Michael Chen

Michael Chen

Co-Founder & CEO

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Tahmid Jamal

Tahmid Jamal

Co-Founder & CTO

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.