Redefining Robotic Intelligence. Backed by Khosla.
About the role
Select and tune RTOS; define priorities and scheduling; optimize interrupt and DMA paths; harden watchdogs and recovery; measure and guard timing budgets Design, implement, and maintain low-level firmware for real-time motion control nodes over EtherCAT
What they're looking for
- Embedded Linux software development. Board Support Package (BSP) development and integration on Linux-based platforms
- Linux kernel programming: device tree, Kconfig, device drivers, kernel modules
- Experience with GMSL2 and MIPI-CSI2 camera drivers (V4L2)
- Experience with Field-Oriented Control (FOC) implementation for BLDC motor drives
- Yocto Project / Bitbake for custom distribution builds
More about this role
At Rhoda AI, we’re building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $450M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality.
You will own the development of Rhoda's low-level firmware stack for distributed real-time control across humanoid platforms. This role centers on deterministic communication, control-loop synchronization, and embedded software robustness in an EtherCAT environment spanning dozens of joints, sensors, and distributed controllers. You will design, implement, and validate firmware components that guarantee sub-millisecond coordination between motor drivers, safety controllers, and perception nodes — bridging the mechanical, electrical, and control...
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