Robotics, Hardware Engineer, Simulation Engineer

Lumen Labs | Robotics/Hardware Engineer, Simulation Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full-time | $150k–200k + equity | https://lumenresearch.co Howdy! Lumen Labs is building the cognitive layer for physical AI. Nearly every major robotics effort today teaches machines by showing them thousands of hours of human teleoperation. We think that paradigm has a ceiling, and we’re working on nature-inspired architectures for unstructured environments (construction sites, mining, pipelines, battlefield).

Pre-seed, backed by top VC funds and operators from robotics/AI companies. Today we run wheeled navigation, we’re dipping our toes into drones, and we’re eyeing weirder platforms like home inspection. We’re a small team hiring two engineers who will work closely with each other and with our model engineer: ROBOTICS / HARDWARE ENGINEER: Own the hardware and infrastructure that keeps our research platforms running: the ROS2 (Humble) stack across onboard and offboard compute, sensor integration and calibration (LiDAR, depth, IMU, encoders), the safety pipeline during autonomous runs, and getting trained policies onto real hardware.