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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Robot Intelligence & Integration Engineer - **Company:** Knightscope, Inc. - **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $240,000.0 - $275,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Systems Engineering, C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Engineering, Data Deduplication, Python (Programming Language), Message Broker, Motion Planning, Systems Architecture, Systems Integration, State Machines, Model Validation, Information Technology, Machine Learning Operations - **Published:** June 13, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5bb15a86b79da40b ## About the Role Do you have experience in Systems integration?, * 7+ years of hands-on experience at an OEM, AV company, physical security platform, or robotics tech company shipping autonomy or systems integration software to production. * Strong systems architecture skills: canonical API and event-driven pipeline design, distributed store-and-forward, and schema-governed message contracts. * Hands-on cloud-to-robot integration experience, message brokers, deduplication, replay-safe ingest, and understanding of graceful degraded-mode design. * Solid understanding of robotics control loops, motion planning interfaces, and the boundary between advisory autonomy and deterministic safety-critical control, with hands-on experience in state machines, behavior trees, or safety arbitration layers. * Strong C++ and Python; experience with ROS2 and mission-state machine design. * Production-first mindset, demonstrated ability to define and enforce interface contracts between hardware-side and cloud-side teams. Preferred Qualifications * MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field. * Exposure to embodied AI concepts or systems: unified perception-reasoning-action architectures, foundation models for robot control, or end-to-end policy learning in deployed autonomous platforms. * Familiarity with functional safety standards, ISO 26262 or SOTIF, particularly as they apply to the boundary between advisory autonomy and deterministic safety-critical control. * Experience building data flywheel pipelines for safety-critical ML systems. Familiarity with evidence integrity and chain-of-custody requirements for security or legal contexts. * ## Description In this role, you will define how K7 perceives, reasons about, and responds to security threats to make our world safer. Drawing on embodied AI principles, you will be a technical lead working across robotics, systems integration, and cloud engineering to ship the autonomy contract layer: the canonical event model, the reasoning policy, and the evidence integrity chain that make K7 not just an observer but a reliable, auditable actor in the field., * Own the full intelligence-to-action loop: from K7's raw detection stream through entity reasoning, world-state modeling, and incident hierarchy, to policy decisions that drive safe, bounded robot behavior. * Design and maintain the canonical event contract: a single, normalized message shape across all detection types that feeds the cloud incident system, versioned and replay safe. * Interface the autonomy policy layer with the motion planning stack: define what the intelligence layer can recommend, what the safety arbiter validates, and what gets passed to controls for execution. * Build the closed-loop learning pipeline: operator outcomes, incident dispositions, and retained evidence feed model evaluation and retraining without modifying the safety boundary * Drive technical decisions on architecture, integration contracts, and roadmap; mentor engineers across the team. ## Related Videos - [Shift Left On Accessibility - Geri Reid](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1712-shift-left-on-accessibility-geri-reid) - [Creating bots with Dialogflow CX](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/587-creating-bots-with-dialogflow-cx) - [Hibernate: How to keep calm](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/534-hibernate-how-to-keep-calm) - [Robots are coming into the wild! 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