Join the team shaping the future of robotics

Senior Robotics Lead

As a Senior Robotics Lead, you will lead a team of engineers across the full stack to develop the next frontier of soft continuum robots, while managing relationships with European funding bodies and Italian customers.

This role is particularly suited to roboticists with a Ph.D. from a leading Robotics lab who want to translate scientific results into reliable robotic solutions that benefit society.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical development of our engineering team in Italy, overseeing day-to-day activities while acting as a bridge between our Swiss and Italian offices.

• Set up and manage a robotics hub in Rome.

• Manage relationships and documentation with EU funding bodies.

• Provide technical support for grant writing (e.g., Horizon Europe and EIC calls).

• Work closely with our CTO to help shape and inform our technical roadmap.

What You Must Have

• A Ph.D. in Robotics, or a Master’s degree with 3+ years of experience as a Technical Lead in robotics.

• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to debug and optimize complex robotics systems.

• Strong communication and writing skills.

• Fluency in English.

Bonus Points

• As a starting point, you will lead development activities in two Horizon Europe projects focused on soft robotics. Previous experience with tendon-driven systems, soft robotic design, and control is highly appreciated.

Join us in reinventing how robots can be integrated into society through safe and innovative robotic solutions. If you are a motivated individual with a passion for technology, eager to demonstrate your potential and grow within a fast-paced robotics startup, we would love to hear from you.

Embodied AI is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Embedded Robotics Engineer

As an Embedded Robotics Engineer, you will play a key role in developing the next generation of soft continuum robots. You will work at the intersection of robotics, electronics, embedded systems, and software to transform cutting-edge research into reliable robotic solutions for real-world applications.

You will join our growing engineering team in Rome and collaborate closely with colleagues across our Italian and Swiss offices. This is an exciting opportunity for an engineer who is passionate about robotics and wants to work in a fast-paced startup environment at the forefront of embodied intelligence and soft robotics.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain embedded software for our robotic systems.

• Develop firmware for microcontrollers and embedded platforms used in robotic devices.

• Interface with sensors, actuators, motors, and communication systems.

• Design and implement real-time control and communication systems.

• Integrate embedded hardware and software with higher-level robotics software.

• Debug, test, and optimize embedded systems to ensure reliability and performance.

• Collaborate closely with mechanical, electronics, and robotics engineers to develop fully integrated robotic systems.

• Support the development and testing of prototypes and experimental robotic platforms.

• Contribute to the transition of research prototypes into robust and reliable products.

• Participate in technical discussions and contribute to the company's technology roadmap.

What You Must Have

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

• Strong experience in embedded software development using C/C++.

• Experience working with microcontrollers and embedded systems.

• Experience interfacing with sensors, actuators, motors, and communication protocols such as CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, or Ethernet.

• Understanding of real-time systems and embedded software architectures.

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug complex hardware and software systems.

• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively within a multidisciplinary team.

• Strong communication skills.

• Fluency in English.

Bonus Points

• Experience with ROS/ROS 2 and robotic software architectures.

• Experience with real-time operating systems (RTOS).

• Experience in motor control and actuator systems.

• Experience with soft robotics, continuum robots, or tendon-driven robotic systems.

• Experience designing or working with custom electronics and PCBs.

• Experience with Linux-based embedded systems.

• Familiarity with Python for testing, prototyping, and automation.

Why Join Us?

Join us in reinventing how robots can be integrated into society through safe, intelligent, and innovative robotic solutions.

At Embodied AI, you will have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge soft robotics technologies and contribute directly to the development of robots that can safely interact with people and operate in complex real-world environments.

If you are a motivated engineer with a passion for robotics and technology, eager to take ownership of challenging technical problems and grow within a fast-paced robotics startup, we would love to hear from you.

Embodied AI is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

About the role

We are looking for an engineer to own the path from data collection to a working robot, together with the interface someone can use to drive it. You will integrate a robot learning stack — LeRobot, DAgger, RL, ACT/diffusion policies, VLAs — into our distributed system, and own customer-facing manipulation capabilities end to end: choosing the approach, making the robot actually do the task, and being there when it is demoed.

This role is for library and framework integrators rather than from-scratch builders. We value engineers who pick the right off-the-shelf piece and integrate it cleanly. The work spans ML pipelines on one side, real product UI on the other, and a distributed system in between. Show and tell is part of the job, and we hire people who naturally build toward something visible.

You will join a fast-growing robotics and AI team building solutions to real-world problems.

What you'll do

• Own manipulation capabilities end to end: define the task, design the data collection, train and evaluate the policy, get it running on the robot, and demo it live to customers.

• Integrate robot learning libraries (LeRobot, DAgger, RL, ACT/diffusion policies, VLAs, NVIDIA Isaac) into our training and deployment pipelines.

• Debug real manipulation failures — grasp failures, calibration drift, distribution shift between collection and deployment — and decide whether the fix is more data, a different policy, or a change to the setup.

• Wire ML artifacts and tooling (W&B, HF Hub, GCS) into the systems that actually run on robots.

• Build and improve the teleoperation and data-collection interfaces that make good demonstration data possible.

• Use simulation when it speeds things up and real robots when it does not.

What you bring

- A track record of integrating complex libraries and frameworks into working systems, including an understanding of their failure modes rather than only their happy path.

- Experience integrating ML libraries into real software systems (research code into something closer to production).

- Solid frontend skills, ideally React with TypeScript. You can ship a usable interface.

- A taste for distributed systems, and an understanding that the model is one component among many.

- A show-and-tell instinct. You build to demo rather than to spec.

Bonus Points

- At least two years at a robotics, IoT, or in-field-devices company. We would like at least one person on the team to have this background.

- Experience with ROS2.

- Hands-on experience with LeRobot, DAgger, or RL.

- Experience with WebRTC, GStreamer, or other real-time, low-latency systems.

- Experience with WebXR or immersive teleoperation interfaces.

- Experience with robot simulation (Isaac, MuJoCo, or similar).

- Customer-facing experience in demos, on-site integration, or technical pre-sales.

Why Join Us?

Join us in reinventing how robots can be integrated into society through safe, intelligent, and innovative robotic solutions.

At Embodied AI, you will have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge soft robotics technologies and contribute directly to the development of robots that can safely interact with people and operate in complex real-world environments.

If you are a motivated engineer with a passion for robotics and technology, eager to take ownership of challenging technical problems and grow within a fast-paced robotics startup, we would love to hear from you.

Embodied AI is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

As a Robotics Hardware Intern, you will support the hardware engineering team in designing, prototyping, and testing physical components and systems for our robots. This role offers practical experience in mechanical design, electronics, and system integration within a dynamic and collaborative environment. We are committed to finding and nurturing exceptional talent; our internships are a key pathway to recruiting outstanding graduates who can make a significant impact on our team.

Responsabilities

• Support the design and development of mechanical structures, electronics, sensors, or actuators for robotic systems.

• Aid in building prototypes, conducting tests, and analyzing results to improve hardware performance.

• Help setting up a robotics & mechanical lab in Italy

• Help create documentation detailing hardware specifications, assembly instructions, and test procedures.

• Work closely with senior engineers to integrate hardware with software systems and contribute ideas for optimization.

• Gain hands-on experience in CAD software, electronics, and mechanical design principles.
  

What you must have

• Master’s degree or higher in a relevant field such as Engineering, Robotics, Automotive or Aerospace.

• Experience in CAD software for mechanical design (Fusion 360 preferred).

• Familiarity with rapid prototyping techniques (3d printing, laser cutting)

• Strong problem-solving skills, adept at debugging and optimizing hardware components.

• Fluency in English

Get some bonus points

• We love to see candidates who like to build stuff. If you are a maker in your spare time, don't forget to include pictures or reports of your hands-on projects.

Join us in reinventing how robots can integrated into our society through safe robotic solutions. If you are a motivated person, with a passion for tech, willing to show your potential, and eager to grow within a fast-paced robotics startup, we would love to hear from you.

Embodied AI is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.