Your New Role and Team

Sanctuary, a world leader in building AI-based control systems for humanoid robots, is looking to hire a skilled and motivated Real Time Software Engineer to join our Real Time Systems team. The Real Time Software Engineer is a crucial part of our team, supporting the integration and control of complex robotic systems through deterministic and low-latency software frameworks. Reporting to the Real Time Software Lead, you’ll contribute to the overall efficiency and effectiveness of our growing organization.

The right candidate will be a valued part of the team as you support the continued improvement in our hardware interface scaling, robot embodiment support, and dexterous manipulation systems, own the coordination of project deliverables across control and AI integration boundaries, and innovate best practices that drive continuous improvements in our motion control stack and system-level integration readiness.

Success Criteria

The main challenge for this role in the first year will be developing and scaling real-time control software to support general-purpose robot platforms, ensuring seamless integration between low-latency systems and high-level AI behaviors.

Within 90 days, you will contribute to validating real-time applications with AI workloads, find integration gaps, and prepare the system for complex control tasks.

This role will collaborate with AI/ML developers, hardware and controls engineers, infrastructure, systems, and program management teams.

Hands-on experience with real-time Linux, ROS 2, hardware/software integration, and debugging performance-critical systems will help someone ramp up quickly.

This role offers growth opportunities in real-time optimization, control software, system integration, and scalable architecture for robot fleets.

This role will mentor others and share knowledge through documentation, collaboration, code reviews, and company-wide presentations.

Your Experience

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechatronics, or Robotics with 5+ years of relevant industry experience, or a Master’s degree in one of these fields.

Comprehensive experience with real-time software architectures, ROS 2, and robot hardware control.

A track record of technical excellence and successful delivery of motion control and robot integration projects.

Understanding of computer hardware and passion for debugging across multiple layers of a system: hardware, kernel, middleware, and user-level applications.

Skills

Proficiency in C++ and Python, with strong experience in real-time systems and control software development.

Solid experience working with Linux, including system-level configuration, debugging, and performance tuning for real-time multi-threaded applications.

Strong ROS 2 and DDS experience, including robotic systems integration and control interface extension for seamless communication.

Hands-on experience with EtherCAT, including configuring and integrating EtherCAT masters and slaves for real-time robotic control applications.

Experience with computer vision technologies is highly valued, and familiarity with camera, video processing, and streaming protocols would also be beneficial.

Familiarity with MATLAB/Simulink is considered an asset, particularly for control algorithm development and simulation.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a focus on clarity in technical discussions and documentation.

Traits

Above all else, a consistently positive attitude and a willingness to do whatever it takes to create robust solutions to mission objectives.

Successful candidates will be a proponent of personal responsibility for themselves and their teammates.

Empathetic listener with conflict resolution capabilities.

Consistent bias for action, communication, and interpersonal savvy.

Self-motivated and able to solve problems independently.

Mission driven and passionate about bringing human-like intelligence to machines.

Additional Information

Working at Sanctuary AI

Sanctuary AI is an equal opportunity employer; employment with Sanctuary AI is governed based on skills, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced in any way by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status. In 2023, Sanctuary AI moved into a state-of-the-art office facility and has been recognized by LinkedIn as a Top Startup company.

Compensation and Benefits

Sanctuary offers a market-leading compensation package that includes competitive salaries, equity stakes, and a full suite of benefits for permanent employees, encompassing health coverage, paid time off, cutting-edge work facilities, and worksite flexibility by role. Our commitment to fairness ensures that our total compensation consistently surpasses market standards.

About Sanctuary AI

Founded in 2018, Sanctuary builds humanoid robots and a novel control system for them that integrates symbolic logic and reasoning with data-driven robot foundation models. We use our robots to collect vision, audio, touch, and proprioception data from the perspective of the robot while they perform real-world work tasks. We use that data to train multimodal robot foundation models. Because our systems are vertically integrated, we can design, deploy, and refine at scale. Our mission is to create the world's first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots.

Recruiting and Employment Agency Notice:

Recruitment and hiring is conducted internally by Sanctuary AI. We are not seeking or soliciting any new agency partnerships or agreements at this time.

Any employment agency or professional recruiter (“Agency”) that provides an unsolicited resume(s) or otherwise presents a prospective job candidate through the Sanctuary AI career site or directly to any Sanctuary AI employee, irrevocably grants to Sanctuary AI the unrestricted right to engage, hire, or contract with that candidate at Sanctuary AI's sole discretion without any compensation to the Agency. We appreciate your interest in working together, and should the need arise our Talent Acquisition team will contact any external firms directly.

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