Robot Integration Engineer

Job description

Who We Are Physical Intelligence is bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world. We are a group of engineers, scientists, roboticists, and company builders developing foundation models and learning algorithms to power the robots of today and the physically-actuated devices of the future. The Team The Fleet team owns the readiness, reliability, and operational health of PI’s robot fleet. They partner across hardware, runtime, and forward-deployed engineering to ensure every robot platform is integrated cleanly, performs reliably in the field, and improves over time — directly enabling the data collection and evaluation that powers PI’s foundation models. In This Role You Will - Robot Platform Fleet Integration: Be the accountable owner for a robot platform’s successful integration into the fleet, driving closure on system issues across electrical, mechanical, and software interfaces. - Acceptance Criteria & Metrics: Define acceptance tests, criteria, and passing metrics with clear documentation on test plans. - Fleet Acceptance Testing: Drive and execute fleet acceptance testing per defined criteria; assess data and results to determine whether robot units can be integrated into the fleet. - Robot Platform Sustainment: Monitor and maintain the health and performance of the platform in the fleet; create bring-up procedures and troubleshooting guides for Forward Deployed Robotics Engineers. - Reliability Improvements: Own MTBF for integrated platforms and lead design improvements to push reliability metrics upward. - Cross-Functional Collaboration: Engage with hardware and software teams to close interface gaps and drive design improvements throughout integration and sustainment. What We Hope You’ll Bring - B.S. in Robotics, Mechatronics, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience. - 5+ years of experience with robot systems integration across multiple hardware and software disciplines, including system verification and validation testing. - Strong understanding of mechanical, electrical, and software interactions in robotic systems, with the ability to resolve complex issues across all three. - Strong understanding of robotics hardware and electromechanical systems including actuators, PCBs, cameras, wiring harnesses, and communication hardware. - Software proficiency to build integration tooling, scripts, and automated tests that improve reliability and speed of integration. - Test execution and data analysis skills — ability to process and analyze data to pull technical insights from results. - Excellent written and verbal communication, particularly in technical documentation. - High ownership and ability to thrive in a highly dynamic startup environment. Bonus Points - Prior experience integrating mobile manipulators, humanoid platforms, or other complex multi-DOF robotic systems. - Familiarity with Python, ROS, and tooling for automated test execution and data pipelines. - Experience operating in a zero-to-one or early-stage fleet/operations environment. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.