Wireless Network Engineer

Boston, MA
Full-time
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About the role

We are a fast-growing Physical AI company founded at MIT. We develop and deploy fleets of purpose-built industrial robots, building a future where AI-native robots handle all the repetitive and physically demanding work.

We're looking for a wireless engineer to advance the RF side of that mission: a low-infrastructure, long-range mesh network that keeps autonomous mobile robots connected in some of the harshest RF environments there are - active construction sites and industrial facilities full of steel, concrete, heavy machinery, and constant change. Your effort will directly shape the next generation of our network technology - from link-level behavior and propagation, up through routing, monitoring, and security - and your decisions will directly shape how the fleet scales.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, deploy, and optimize long-range sub-GHz mesh networks at industrial facilities and construction sites
  • Characterize and model RF propagation and coverage in cluttered, dynamic environments with mobile nodes
  • Conduct wireless site surveys; define antenna placement and link budgets; guide deployment engineers and technicians
  • Analyze link- and MAC-level behavior to troubleshoot and resolve field issues with minimal customer impact
  • Evaluate radio platforms, spectrum options, and mesh routing approaches as the fleet grows
  • Advance our network monitoring, remote administration, and network security capabilities
  • Document designs, experiments, and test results

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's + 3 years of industry experience, or Master's + 2 years, in EE/CE or a related field
  • Strong grounding in RF fundamentals and wireless communications - propagation, modulation, link budgets, PHY/MAC behavior
  • Hands-on experience installing, configuring, and maintaining wireless networks in the real world
  • Experience conducting wireless site surveys and turning them into working deployments
  • Comfortable working low in the stack and diagnosing problems from spectrum to packets
  • Strong analytical skills; able to work independently and with a small team
  • Willingness to travel occasionally for site surveys, deployments, and troubleshootings

Preferred but not required:

  • Experience with sub-GHz or other long-range wireless protocols
  • Comfort with Linux, scripting, or C/C++ for test automation and tooling
  • Familiarity with network security monitoring
  • Wireless networking certifications

We are a fast-paced, highly technical organization. Teams are small and agile, autonomy is expected, and every engineer sees their work go from idea to deployed, high-value product. The wireless layer is early enough that you won't be maintaining someone else's decisions - you'll be making them.

We'll be excited to learn more about you and welcome you to the Team!

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Job details

Salary

$110,000 - $200,000

Location

Boston, MA

Experience

3+ years

Company

NameNextera Robotics | DIDGE.ai
IndustryManufacturing and Robotics
Team Size20

Funding

Total raised

$500K

Last stage

Pre-seed

Investors

Y Combinator
Seabed VC
ICE.vc
MMassRobotics
PPhysical AI Fellowship

Founders

Alex Rand

Alex Rand

Co-Founder & CTO

LinkedIn
Lana Graf

Lana Graf

Co-Founder & CEO

LinkedIn

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.