Robotics Engineer

Key Skills

AI Robotic systems, GoLang, Linux Operating system

Job Description

Viam is a robotics platform that makes it easy to turn great ideas into production-ready robots. Viam works with any hardware and has a modern architecture, easy developer APIs, cloud connectivity and tools, and enterprise-grade security to give even the leanest teams the power to launch and scale their robotics business. 

Viam makes building, deploying and managing robots more flexible, affordable and easy to use so that builders can do more with robots while getting them to market faster. By making robotics more accessible, Viam is attracting talent and investment to the industry so that more people start working with robots to build products and services that improve our world.

Viam's products are built by engineers, for engineers. We want to build a platform we would want to use ourselves. This requires a high quality experience weaved throughout the stack. As an engineer, you will be integral not to just building out high quality, robust software, but to creating the future of robots. Our current tech stack consists of Golang (backend), Linux, and a variety of hardware.

You'll be:

• Working across the robotic stack on new and unique problems in robotics
• Working on the first set of products which will define the nature of our platform
• Building and testing on physical robots

We're looking for someone who:

• Has 3+ years of professional software development experience
• Worked in strongly typed languages
• Has an affinity to hard sophisticated problems, and loves solving them with practical solutions
• Has deep experience on the design and implementation of developer interfaces
• Wants to make our users lives easier through making their work more efficient
• Is excited to approach new technologies and open-ended problems
• Believes in high-quality, tested, and well documented code
• Wants to work with physical hardware, but doesn’t necessarily have experience doing so

Benefits:

• 100% covered medical/dental/vision insurance plans, commuter benefits
• Competitive salary & equity packages
• Reproductive Health Benefits including Fertility Benefits and Abortion Access Travel Benefits
• 25 days paid vacation and generous holiday observances
• One Medical Membership
• Class Pass & Citi Bike memberships
• Free lunch everyday that you’re in the office
• Paid parental leave

The starting salary for this role is between $97,000 - $257,000/year. Your exact offer will vary based on a number of factors including experience level, skillset, market location, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. We recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced, or more senior, than this job description as posted. In these situations, the updated salary range will be communicated with you as a candidate. In addition to cash compensation, Viam offers a comprehensive Total Rewards package that includes equity grants, health benefits, and more.

Values:

• Vision Driven
• Collaborate Openly
• Act Decisively
• Succeed Through Diversity
• Hold Ourselves Accountable
• Lead with Curiosity