Physical IntelligenceRobot Integration Engineer
Physical Intelligence is hiring a Robot Integration Engineer in San Francisco, United States. Level rates it ; you can apply on Physical Intelligence.
Level's read on this job
- Level rates this role Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- The posting mentions Python, robotics and systems integration among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a senior role.
- Physical Intelligence has 43 other open roles on Level.
AI in this role
Integrate and test robot platforms for physical AI foundation models, ensuring fleet reliability and operational health.
Who We Are
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.
The Team
The Fleet team owns the readiness, reliability, and operational health of PI’s robot fleet. They partner across hardware, runtime, and forward-deployed engineering to ensure every robot platform is integrated cleanly, performs reliably in the field, and improves over time — directly enabling the data collection and evaluation that powers PI’s foundation models.
In This Role You Will
- Robot Platform Fleet Integration: Be the accountable owner for a robot platform’s successful integration into the fleet, driving closure on system issues across electrical, mechanical, and software interfaces.
- Acceptance Criteria & Metrics: Define acceptance tests, criteria, and passing metrics with clear documentation on test plans.
- Fleet Acceptance Testing: Drive and execute fleet acceptance testing per defined criteria; assess data and results to determine whether robot units can be integrated into the fleet.
- Robot Platform Sustainment: Monitor and maintain the health and performance of the platform in the fleet; create bring-up procedures and troubleshooting guides for Forward Deployed Robotics Engineers.
- Reliability Improvements: Own MTBF for integrated platforms and lead design improvements to push reliability metrics upward.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Engage with hardware and software teams to close interface gaps and drive design improvements throughout integration and sustainment.
What We Hope You’ll Bring
- B.S. in Robotics, Mechatronics, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience with robot systems integration across multiple hardware and software disciplines, including system verification and validation testing.
- Strong understanding of mechanical, electrical, and software interactions in robotic systems, with the ability to resolve complex issues across all three.
- Strong understanding of robotics hardware and electromechanical systems including actuators, PCBs, cameras, wiring harnesses, and communication hardware.
- Software proficiency to build integration tooling, scripts, and automated tests that improve reliability and speed of integration.
- Test execution and data analysis skills — ability to process and analyze data to pull technical insights from results.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, particularly in technical documentation.
- High ownership and ability to thrive in a highly dynamic startup environment.
Bonus Points
- Prior experience integrating mobile manipulators, humanoid platforms, or other complex multi-DOF robotic systems.
- Familiarity with Python, ROS, and tooling for automated test execution and data pipelines.
- Experience operating in a zero-to-one or early-stage fleet/operations environment.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
How we rate this
Robot Integration Engineer at Physical Intelligence rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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- Tell me about a project where robotics was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where systems integration was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where test automation was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where hardware software integration was part of your work. What did you do?
- Walk me through how you've used Python in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Robotics, Systems Integration, Test Automation, Hardware Software Integration, and Python. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
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- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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