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# Application Engineer

- **Company:** ROBOTIC MINDS LLC
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Layers, System Configuration, Smart Devices, Software Engineering, Real Time Data, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** July 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=48bdeb73b968c0e0

## About the Role

* 3+ years of software engineering experience building production systems
 * Strong programming fundamentals and comfort working across the stack - edge devices, services, and data pipelines
 * Experience with at least one of: real-time data pipelines, edge computing, device or fleet management, robotics or sensor systems
 * Bias for ownership: you've taken features or systems from prototype to production and supported them in the field
 * Clear communication and close collaboration with product, research, and operations partners
 * Hands-on experience with sensor data (video, depth, IMU, force/torque) and the infrastructure to process it at scale is a plus
 * Background in robotics, autonomous vehicles, industrial IoT, or teleoperation systems is a plus
 * Exposure to manufacturing or other industrial environments is a plus
 * Familiarity with ML data workflows (datasets, labelling, evaluation) is a plus

## Description

As an Application Engineer, you'll be one of the founding engineers on the team that owns this application layer, reporting to our Head of Application Engineering. The systems work today; your job is to help harden and productionize them for scale - from 10 capture stations at one site to hundreds across multiple OEM plants, and from a handful of teleop stations to a multi-shift fleet. This is early, hands-on, 0-to-1 engineering: you'll ship code that runs on real hardware in real factories, and see its effect on robot behavior.

 * Build the field capture stack - edge software for our data collection rigs: device management, sensor orchestration, and real-time data quality monitoring that holds up on a factory floor
 * Ship the teleop stack - collection, evaluation, and operator tooling for our teleoperation stations, including metrics, task management, and the workflows our robot operators use every day
 * Streamline annotation methods/models to increase labelling efficiency
 * Make deployment repeatable - contribute to tooling and configuration systems that make onboarding a new manufacturing site a config change, not a custom engineering project
 * Support the field - debug issues on live systems, instrument for observability, and work directly with site operations staff and robot operators who depend on your software


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