Rhoda AI jobs

Robot Perception Engineer Palo Alto, California, United States At Rhoda AI, we're building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $400M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality. We're looking for a Robot Perception Engineer to develop and maintain the perception systems that give our humanoid robots a real-time understanding of the world around them. You'll own the software that transforms raw sensor data into reliable, actionable perception - from sensor integration and calibration to safety-certified object detection and streaming data to our foundation models and teleoperation stack. What You'll Do - Develop and maintain real-time perception pipelines - integrating and calibrating sensors (cameras, LiDAR, IMUs, depth sensors) with our humanoid robot platforms - Build and optimize object detection, tracking, and scene understanding systems for safe operation in complex, unstructured environments - Own the streaming infrastructure that delivers sensor data reliably to foundation models, teleoperation systems, and onboard control stacks - Work closely with the AI/ML team to bridge perception outputs and learned policy inputs - ensuring low-latency, high-reliability data delivery - Implement and validate safety-certified perception components, including object detection

Mechanical Engineer Palo Alto, California, United States At Rhoda AI, we're building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $400M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality. We're looking for a Junior Mechanical Engineer to help design and refine our Gen 0 robot platform. You'll work on the physical integration of third-party components - rails, cables, fixtures, and other mechanical improvements - with a focus on safety, reliability, and clean system design. You'll also design and iterate on custom end effectors, fingers, and mounts tailored to specific tasks and use cases. This is a hands-on role with real ownership on a small team building hardware from the ground up. What You'll Do - Design and iterate on mechanical components and assemblies for our robot system, including cable management, rail systems, fixtures, and integration hardware - Design custom end effectors, fingers, and mounting hardware tailored to specific tasks, and own the rapid prototyping cycle from concept through printed and tested parts - Support the integration of third-party components into the full system, ensuring fit, function, and compatibility with existing hardware - Identify

Robotics Software Test Engineer Palo Alto, California, United States At Rhoda AI, we're building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $400M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality. We're looking for a Robotics Software Test Engineer to design and build the test infrastructure that ensures our robot software stack is reliable, regression-free, and ready to ship. What You'll Do - Design and implement automated test plans, test cases, and test fixtures across the full robotic software stack - Architect and build test infrastructure across all testing layers - spanning unit tests, component integration tests, system-level tests, and hardware-in-the-loop validation - Strengthen and extend CI/CD pipelines to catch regressions early and gate releases - Define quality metrics and KPIs; track test coverage, failure trends, and release readiness to give the team clear signal on product health - Participate in design and code reviews with a focus on observability, testability, and reliability What We're Looking For - Proficiency in Python and C++ - Strong knowledge of software engineering best practices and design patterns - Experience designing and building test infrastructure - Hands-on

Robot Software Engineer (Simulation) Mountain View, Mountain View,, California, United States At Rhoda AI, we're building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $400M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality. We're looking for a Robot Software Engineer to build and validate the simulation environments that underpin our humanoid robotics platform. You'll develop physics-based models that closely mirror real hardware, and own the software pipelines that bridge simulation and the physical world - from motion planning and control to sim-to-real transfer for AI policy training. This is a high-impact role on a small team building foundational technology for Gen 0 and Gen 1 robot programs. What You'll Do - Build and maintain simulation environments for our humanoid robot platforms, including physics-based models (e.g., MuJoCo, IsaacSim, PyBullet, or similar) that closely match real hardware behavior - Develop and validate robot software - including motion planning, control loops, state estimation, and actuator interfaces - in simulation before deployment to physical systems - Integrate simulation pipelines with the broader software stack: perception, teleoperation, logging, and data collection infrastructure - Collaborate with the AI/ML team

Robot Software Engineer Mountain View, Mountain View,, California, United States At Rhoda AI, we're building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $400M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality. We're looking for a Robot Software Engineer to help build and maintain the broad software foundation that keeps our humanoid robots running. You'll work across the full onboard stack - from networking and communication infrastructure to perception and control integration, data collection pipelines, and the tooling that lets us continue to develop and improve our robots in the field. What You'll Do - Build and maintain the networking and communication infrastructure that connects onboard robot systems to each other, to the cloud, and to teleoperation and monitoring systems - Own data collection pipelines that capture sensor, telemetry, and behavioral data from the robot and reliably upload it to cloud storage for model training - Build and maintain telemetry and observability systems - giving the team real-time visibility into robot health, system state, and field performance - Develop internal tooling that accelerates robot software development: deployment pipelines, logging infrastructure, debugging tools, and

Inference Infrastructure Engineer Palo Alto, California, United States At Rhoda AI, we're building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $400M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality. We're looking for an Inference Infrastructure Engineer to help build and operate the systems that power our model deployment stack. You'll be responsible for running large foundation models efficiently and reliably across cloud and on-prem environments, with a focus on resource management, scheduling, and infrastructure scalability. What You'll Do - Design and operate large-scale infrastructure to run model workloads across cloud and on-prem environments - Build and maintain Kubernetes-based deployment pipelines for managing distributed ML workloads - Own resource scheduling and orchestration across GPU clusters - optimizing utilization, workload balancing, and cost-performance tradeoffs - Integrate and manage ML frameworks and model serving systems (e.g., Triton, Ray Serve, TorchServe) across research and production use cases - Build tooling for model deployment, versioning, and observability to support fast iteration cycles - Contribute to the reliability and scalability of the infrastructure stack as model complexity and deployment footprint grow What We're Looking For - 3+ years

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Mountain View, Mountain View,, California, United States At Rhoda AI, we're building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $400M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality. We're looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to build and operate the systems that power our robotics and AI platform. You'll own the infrastructure that collects training data, keeps our robots running in the field, and trains and evaluates our models - designing for high reliability and low latency across every layer. The systems you build will be the backbone of what we ship. What You'll Do - Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure supporting data collection pipelines, robot operations, and model training and evaluation workflows - Own the reliability, availability, and latency of core infrastructure including databases, data warehouses, and object storage systems - Develop and maintain backend services and APIs that expose infrastructure capabilities to internal teams and customers - Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across the data and compute stack to meet latency and throughput requirements - Partner with research teams to understand model training and evaluation infrastructure

Research Scientist / Engineer - Efficient Modeling Mountain View, Mountain View,, California, United States At Rhoda AI, we're building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $400M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality. We're looking for a Research Scientist or Research Engineer focused on model efficiency - making our foundation world models faster, smaller, and more deployable without sacrificing capability. This work is critical to closing the gap between research-scale models and real-time operation on robot hardware. What You'll Do - Research and implement model compression techniques: quantization, pruning, structured sparsity, distillation, and low-rank approximation - Design efficient architectures and attention mechanisms suited to real-time inference on edge and robot hardware - Develop training strategies that produce better accuracy-efficiency tradeoffs from the start - Profile and benchmark models across hardware targets to identify and resolve efficiency bottlenecks - Build evaluation frameworks that measure capability retention after compression or architecture changes - Collaborate with training systems and deployment teams to ensure efficient models translate to faster real-world inference - Publish and present work at top-tier venues What We're Looking For -

Robotics Application Engineer Mountain View, Mountain View,, California, United States At Rhoda AI, we're building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $400M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality. We're looking for a mid-to-senior Robotics Application Engineer to translate real-world customer use cases into robust intelligent robot deployments. You will design, prototype, and refine grippers, end-of-arm tooling, work stations, and integration hardware - and develop efficient strategies for robot learning and data collection - working at the intersection of robotics, AI, hardware, and deployment operations. What You'll Do - Execute customer projects end-to-end - from scoping and solution design through onsite delivery, serving as the primary technical point of contact - Design mechanical solutions including grippers, EOAT, fixtures, and work-cells; rapidly prototype and validate concepts before field deployment - Drive AI model post-training and deployment on robot hardware, developing training strategies and partnering with robot pilots and data ops to build robust policies - Become a product expert - develop deep knowledge of the full stack and internal workflows to accelerate customer onboarding and inform the roadmap - Continuously improve

Robot Controls Engineer Mountain View, Mountain View,, California, United States At Rhoda AI, we're building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $400M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality. We're looking for a Robot Control Engineer to develop and maintain the control systems that run on our humanoid robots. You'll own the software that connects hardware to behavior - from low-level control loops and actuator interfaces to state estimation and real-world deployment. What You'll Do - Develop and maintain onboard control software including control loops, state estimation, and actuator interfaces - Implement and tune motion planning and control systems - including whole-body control, trajectory optimization, or model predictive control - Collaborate with the AI/ML team to integrate learned control policies onto real hardware reliably and efficiently - Contribute to system reliability, fault detection, and recovery logic for robust real-world operation - Work directly with prototype hardware, debugging discrepancies between simulated and real behavior and iterating on both - Support bring-up and field testing of new hardware revisions What We're Looking For - 4+ years of experience building control software for

Systems Integration Technician Mountain View, Mountain View,, California, United States At Rhoda AI, we're building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $400M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality. You will be part of Rhoda's hardware integration and maintenance team, supporting activities across our humanoid robot platforms. You will write and edit assembly standards, follow ESD discipline, help with debugging and rework, and ensure that prototypes and tested hardware operate at peak reliability. This role reports to the Technician Lead. What You'll Do - Develop and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) for assembly and repair - Create calibration, alignment, and torque-validation routines - Troubleshoot mechanical and electrical integration issues across humanoid robot subsystems - Manage inventory, tool calibration, and work-area organization - Coordinate failure analysis, rework, and maintenance logs with engineering - Support system-level validation and field-test readiness of prototype robots What We're Looking For - Technical diploma or Bachelor's degree in Mechatronics, Robotics, or a related field - 3+ years of hands-on experience in robotics, automation, or precision electromechanical systems - Proven experience within R&D or prototype manufacturing contexts

Research Scientist / Engineer - Post-training & Robot Learning Mountain View, Mountain View,, California, United States At Rhoda AI, we're building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $400M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality. We're looking for Research Scientists and Research Engineers with deep robotics or autonomous systems domain knowledge to adapt our web-pretrained video model to real robot tasks. Post-training at Rhoda means taking a causal video generation model pretrained on internet-scale data and fine-tuning it on robot-collected demonstrations to produce reliable, generalizable behavior - with as little task-specific data as possible. We hire across levels - from senior to staff. What You'll Do - Design and implement RL training pipelines to improve robot policy performance beyond what imitation learning alone achieves - reward design, online data collection, and policy optimization - Develop and apply RL algorithms (PPO, GRPO, or similar) adapted to the video prediction setting, including reward modeling and feedback collection strategies for physical task performance - Design and implement broader post-training pipelines: supervised fine-tuning, preference optimization, and behavioral alignment on robot-collected demonstration data - Work

HR Manager Mountain View, Mountain View,, California, United States At Rhoda AI, we're building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $400M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality. We're looking for HR Manager to help build and scale our people operations as we grow. This is a unique opportunity to shape the employee experience at a fast-moving robotics company - hands-on and strategic, with real ownership across the HR function. What You'll Do Employee Lifecycle & Operations - Own end-to-end onboarding and offboarding processes, ensuring every new hire has a smooth, welcoming experience and a fast ramp-up, including leading New Hire Orientation - Help coordinate offer letters and employment agreements - Maintain HRIS data integrity, manage employee data changes, and identify opportunities to streamline workflows and build scalable people processes Benefits, Rewards & Wellbeing - Administer and continuously improve our employee benefits programs - Serve as the go-to resource for benefits questions and lead open enrollment - Partner with leadership to develop competitive compensation and rewards frameworks that attract and retain top talent - Champion employee wellbeing initiatives and help

VP of Hardware Mountain View, Mountain View,, California, United States At Rhoda AI, we're building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $400M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality. We are looking for a VP of Hardware Engineering to lead the design, development, and scaling of Rhoda's robotic systems from concept through volume production. This is a critical leadership role responsible for building and managing a high-performance hardware organization, defining product architecture, and delivering best-in-class systems that meet the demands of real-world industrial deployment. Robotics has historically been limited by hardware systems that cannot operate reliably in real-world environments at scale. At Rhoda, we are solving that problem. What You'll Do Product & System Leadership - Partner with Product Management to define system requirements and product roadmaps - Translate product requirements into clear engineering specifications and system architectures - Drive end-to-end hardware development across mechanical, electrical, and system domains Design & Development - Lead the design and development of robotic systems including manipulation platforms, end effectors, sensor integration, and compute and control systems - Ensure systems are robust to real-world

Fullstack Engineer Mountain View, Mountain View,, California, United States At Rhoda AI, we're building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $400M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality. We're looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer to help build the internal platforms and tooling that power our research, robotics, and infrastructure teams. You'll work across a broad surface area - from frontend interfaces for data collection and model validation, to backend services and APIs that tie together our cloud infrastructure, robot fleet, and data pipelines. What You'll Do - Build frontend interfaces for data collection, labeling, model validation, and experiment tracking - Design and maintain backend services and APIs that support fast-moving research and engineering workflows across cloud, robot, and data infrastructure - Build tooling and dashboards for observability across cloud infrastructure, distributed training jobs, and robot fleet status - Integrate with data infrastructure systems - storage backends, pipeline orchestration, and dataset management tools - Build interfaces and services that connect with our physical robot ecosystem - fleet management, teleoperation, and deployment tooling - Own reliability, performance, and scalability of

Research Scientist / Engineer - Reasoning Mountain View, Mountain View,, California, United States At Rhoda AI, we're building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $400M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality. We're looking for Research Scientists and Research Engineers to advance the reasoning and planning capabilities of our foundation world models - enabling robots to decompose goals, plan multi-step actions, and handle long-horizon tasks in complex, unstructured environments. We hire across levels - from senior to staff. What You'll Do - Research and develop methods for multi-step reasoning and planning grounded in embodied world models - Design architectures and training strategies that improve compositional generalization and long-horizon prediction - Explore chain-of-thought reasoning, process reward models, and test-time search in the context of robotic control - Build evaluation benchmarks for reasoning and planning capabilities applied to physical tasks - Investigate how world model rollouts can enable planning and decision-making at inference time - Collaborate with pre-training and post-training teams to integrate reasoning capabilities into the full model pipeline - Publish and present work at top-tier venues (especially valued for RS

Robot System QA Mountain View, Mountain View,, California, United States At Rhoda AI, we're building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $400M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality. We're looking for a Robot Systems QA Engineer to own the quality and reliability bar across our entire robotics platform - not just the robot itself, but the full system it operates within. You'll design and execute the validation frameworks, benchmarking pipelines, and reliability testing programs that determine whether our systems are truly ready for real-world deployment. What You'll Do - Design and own end-to-end system validation frameworks that span the full platform - robot hardware and software, cloud infrastructure, networking and communication systems, data pipelines, and operational tooling - Collaborate closely with system engineering and the product team to derive test cases and success criteria from high-level requirements - Define and track reliability KPIs and deployment readiness criteria across all system components - establishing clear, measurable thresholds that gate production releases - Build and maintain benchmarking pipelines that systematically evaluate system performance across key dimensions: uptime, latency, throughput, fault recovery,

Research Engineer - Data Infrastructure Palo Alto, California, United States At Rhoda AI, we're building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $400M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality. We're looking for Data Infrastructure MLEs to scale the systems that power our model training data pipeline, from raw ingestion and storage to indexing, retrieval, and throughput optimization at massive scale. We hire across levels - from senior to staff. What You'll Do - Architect, build, and scale a high-throughput data infrastructure that processes and manages billions of video clips with strong guarantees around reliability, latency, and cost efficiency - Design and optimize large-scale storage systems (cloud object storage, databases, metadata stores) for multimodal datasets - Build efficient indexing and retrieval systems to support fast dataset querying, filtering, and iteration for research and production use cases - Develop observability frameworks for data pipelines including monitoring, alerting, failure recovery, and performance optimization - Implement intelligent workload balancing and throughput optimization across distributed compute and storage systems - Manage data artifacts, versioning, and lineage to ensure reproducibility and traceability across training runs -

Research Scientist / Engineer - Video Generation Modeling Palo Alto, California, United States At Rhoda AI, we're building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $400M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality. We're looking for Research Scientists and Research Engineers to push the frontier of large-scale pre-training for our video action model. Our approach formulates robot control as video prediction - we pre-train causal video generation models on web-scale video data, then adapt them to predict robot actions from real-world demonstrations. You'll work on the core architectures, training objectives, and scaling strategies that determine how well our models learn from internet-scale video. We hire across levels - from senior to staff - and welcome both research-track and engineering-track candidates. What You'll Do - Design and train large-scale causal video generation models on web-scale video data - Develop and validate training objectives, model architectures, and data mixtures for video prediction at scale - Research scaling laws and data efficiency for web-scale video pretraining - Investigate what properties of web video transfer most effectively to robotic control and action prediction - Build

Senior Electrical Engineer- Power Management Palo Alto, California, United States At Rhoda AI, we're building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $400M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality. The Role We're building hardware that pushes the limits of what's possible - and power is at the heart of it. We're looking for a power management wizard to own the design of the systems that keep everything running: from the tiniest LDO to the battery pack powering the whole thing. You won't be a cog in a giant org. You'll own real problems end-to-end, ship fast, and have your fingerprints all over the product. If you love getting your hands dirty in the lab, debating topologies on a whiteboard, and bringing up brand-new boards at 11pm because you can't wait to see it work - let's talk. What You'll Do - Architect power solutions from scratch - LDOs, buck/boost converters, PMICs, the whole stack. - Tame multi-rail systems with bulletproof power sequencing. - Wire it all together over I2C, SPI, and CAN. - Design Battery Management Systems and chargers that

Staff Firmware Engineer Mountain View, Mountain View,, California, United States At Rhoda AI, we're building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $400M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality. You will own the development of Rhoda's low-level firmware stack for distributed real-time control across humanoid platforms. This role centers on deterministic communication, control-loop synchronization, and embedded software robustness in an EtherCAT environment spanning dozens of joints, sensors, and distributed controllers. You will design, implement, and validate firmware components that guarantee sub-millisecond coordination between motor drivers, safety controllers, and perception nodes - bridging the mechanical, electrical, and control domains. This role is a Senior MTS reporting directly to the VP of Hardware Engineering, with a clear path to grow into a managerial role as the firmware and controls team scales. What You'll Do - Select and tune RTOS; define priorities and scheduling; optimize interrupt and DMA paths; harden watchdogs and recovery; measure and guard timing budgets - Design, implement, and maintain low-level firmware for real-time motion control nodes over EtherCAT - Develop synchronization and communication layers ensuring deterministic cycle times (

Research Scientist / Engineer - Robot Learning Data Mountain View, Mountain View,, California, United States At Rhoda AI, we're building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $400M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality. We're looking for a Research Scientist or Research Engineer to own the strategy and systems for collecting, curating, and scaling high-quality robot learning data. This role sits at the intersection of robotics, data collection, and research - your work directly determines the diversity and quality of the demonstrations our models train on. What You'll Do - Design and implement teleoperation and demonstration collection systems for high-quality robot learning data - Develop data quality metrics, curation pipelines, and filtering strategies specific to robotic interaction data - Research methods to augment real robot data with synthetic, simulated, or cross-embodiment sources - Identify and source external robotic datasets to expand training diversity across platforms and tasks - Build tooling for researchers to explore, annotate, and iterate on robotic datasets - Collaborate with pre-training and post-training teams to translate model data needs into concrete collection strategies - Measure the downstream

Research Engineer - Training Platform Mountain View, Mountain View,, California, United States At Rhoda AI, we're building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $400M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality. We're looking for a Research Engineer to build and maintain the training platform that powers our model development - experiment orchestration, job management, observability, and the tooling that lets researchers move from idea to result as fast as possible. What You'll Do - Build and maintain training orchestration systems for large-scale distributed model training across GPU clusters - Develop experiment management tooling: job configuration, tracking, reproducibility, and artifact management - Build observability infrastructure for training runs: loss curves, compute utilization, gradient statistics, and anomaly detection - Optimize and automate the research iteration loop from experiment launch to results analysis - Manage job scheduling and cluster utilization for efficient use of GPU compute - Build internal tooling and interfaces that help researchers move faster - Collaborate with training systems, data infrastructure, and research teams to support their platform needs What We're Looking For - Strong software engineering skills with experience

Staff System Safety Engineer Mountain View, Mountain View,, California, United States At Rhoda AI, we're building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $400M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality. This is a Staff position reporting directly to the Head of Safety and Certification. We're looking for a technical executor with a bias for action, impeccable rigor, and the ability to drive cross-disciplinary teams. The candidate must demonstrate deep technical credibility and the appetite to grow into a leadership position as the safety organization scales. What You'll Do - Perform Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment of humanoid robots across specific customer applications - Develop Functional Safety Concepts, Functional Safety Requirements, and Technical Safety Requirements - Perform system-level analyses to derive requirements related to stopping distances, perception, and timing/spatial/force constraints - Derive requirements for fail-safe and fail-operational behaviors, degraded states, and human-robot interactions - Develop test cases for verification and validation - Define, engineer, deploy, and employ system safety validation equipment at HIL, SIL, and system level What We're Looking For - B.S. in Electrical Engineering - Certified Functional Safety Engineer