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Prototype Engineer

Physical Intelligence · San Francisco · On-site

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About Physical Intelligence

Backed by General Catalyst, Khosla and Sequoia.

About the role

Rapidly design and fabricate mechanical, electrical, and sensor prototypes to support research experiments and engineering development. Partner directly with researchers to understand experimental requirements and translate them into buildable hardware systems.

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Physical Intelligence is bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world. We are a group of engineers, scientists, roboticists, and company builders developing foundation models and learning algorithms to power the robots of today and the physically-actuated devices of the future.

We're looking for a Prototype Engineer, an engineering generalist who sits at the intersection of enabling research and deloying into real-world applications. You'll work closely with our research and engineering teams to rapidly design, build, and iterate on concept mechanical, electrical, and sensor prototypes that push the boundaries of what our robots can do.

This role is uniquely positioned between R&D and hardware engineering. You'll translate research ideas into physical systems, build end-to-end prototypes from scratch, and ensure our hardware performs reliably when interacting with real-world objects. You're the person both the hardware team and researchers come to when they need something built and rapidly iterated on. When successful, you'll be responsible for turning these into scalable solutions that support multiple hardware platforms in our fleet.

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