Deployments Software Engineer
San Francisco • FullTime
Posted 3mo ago
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
Applied AI Engineer
About the job
Physical Intelligence is developing foundation models and learning algorithms to power robots and future physically-actuated devices. This role focuses on building the systems that enable robots to operate reliably and safely in real-world customer environments. You will integrate state-of-the-art models with robots, design system safeguards, develop teleoperation interfaces, and implement latency optimizations for remote control. You will collaborate with researchers, platform engineers, and robot operators to ensure the entire stack is dependable enough for customers to rely on for their operations.
Responsibilities
- Design remote teleoperation interfaces for controlling robots with many degrees of freedom.
- Optimize teleoperation interfaces for low-latency network performance, even in weak internet conditions.
- Profile and optimize system performance across compute, I/O, memory, scheduling, networking, and storage to meet real-time constraints.
- Develop and optimize real-time video streaming systems, focusing on frame timing and packet scheduling.
- Build tooling for profiling, tracing, and debugging timing issues across distributed systems and hardware interfaces.
- Collaborate with researchers, hardware engineers, and operations teams to integrate optimized pipelines into production workflows.
Requirements
- Strong programming skills in C++, Rust, or Python, with experience building and optimizing production software.
- Background in real-time or near-real-time systems, VR/AR, video pipelines, 3D engines, or streaming systems with strict latency budgets.
- Ability to optimize across the entire stack, including drivers, networking, compute workloads, video frameworks, and distributed components.
- Experience with profiling tools (perf, tracing, eBPF, GPU profilers, network analyzers) and comfort with complex performance issues.
- A mindset oriented around determinism, throughput, frame budgets, jitter minimization, and real-time correctness.
- Ability to collaborate deeply with robot users, researchers, and platform engineers to build a precise and comfortable teleoperation interface.