Dexmate

Senior Embedded Systems Engineer

Fremont, California, United StatesFull timeSenior$100,000 - $300,000 / yearPosted 12 days ago
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Dexmate is building the foundation for physical AI — a unified platform that combines high-quality robotic hardware with a universal Physical AI OS, making robots as easy to build and deploy as software. Today, robotics is fragmented, slow, and closed: most builders are forced to reinvent the same stack again and again, and most ideas never make it past the prototype stage. We exist to change that. Our mission is to democratize robotics by lowering the barrier to entry, delivering a plug-and-play platform for developers, researchers, and enterprises, and cultivating an open ecosystem that accelerates the evolution of physical AI. If you want to help shape the next layer of human capability — and believe the future of robotics should be built together, not in isolation — we'd love to build it with you.

THE ROLE

We're looking for a Senior Embedded Systems Engineer to own the firmware and embedded software stack on general-purpose robots. You'll work at the intersection of hardware and software — developing motor control firmware, sensor interfaces, and communication infrastructure for general-purpose robots.

This is a high-ownership, hands-on role. You'll collaborate daily with mechanical, electrical, and controls engineers, and your firmware will be among the first code that runs on every new robot subsystem. You'll help define how we scale from lab prototype to deployed fleet.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Architect and develop production-grade firmware for actuator controllers, sensor interfaces, and communication subsystems on the robots

- Own hardware bring-up: write low-level peripheral drivers, validate new PCBs, and debug hardware/firmware boundary issues

- Implement and optimize motor control algorithms — torque, velocity, and position loops — on bare-metal and RTOS platforms

- Develop and maintain real-time communication stacks including EtherCAT, CAN, SPI, I2C, and UART

- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test infra...