# Staff Robot Platform Engineer at Persona AI

- Company: Persona AI
- What the company does: Backed by 500 Global.
- Company website: https://personastudios.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Houston, TX
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-05
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/persona.ai/ad0e4a0f-6c09-425f-a113-2d12903b43c7
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/persona-ai-staff-robot-platform-engineer/

## About the role

Platform owns the foundational software that runs on the robot itself: the layer between raw hardware and everything else we build. You'll drive our real-time control stack, our hardware abstraction layer, and the robot API/SDK that every other team (controls, perception, behaviors, ops tooling) builds against.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years in systems/embedded/real-time software engineering, with meaningful time in robotics, autonomous vehicles, or another hard real-time domain
- Deep C++ fluency and comfort reasoning about real-time constraints, latency budgets, and determinism
- Hands-on EtherCAT experience (master implementation, PDO/SDO, cyclic vs. acyclic data) or an equivalent fieldbus/deterministic networking background
- A track record designing clean hardware abstraction layers, backend-agnostic interfaces, and/or public-facing SDKs or APIs that held up across hardware revisions or product generations
- A bias toward architecturally simple, verifiable systems, and comfort pushing back on unvalidated assumptions in design review
- Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or related field

Tags: Persona AI