Senior Systems Engineer (Firmware)

Matic is revolutionizing home robotics by building the world's first truly autonomous robots. We're on a mission to recapture the 2.5 trillion hours annually spent on home chores, worth $25 trillion in wasted economic value, with fully autonomous, useful, elegant, and affordable robots that families love.

Our first product, Matic, is a Wall-E-esque floor cleaning robot that families love and cannot fathom their lives without. We've built what amounts to "self-driving for homes" — precise 3D mapping, real-time SLAM, and semantic understanding that works reliably in real homes, all achieved through breakthrough spatial AI technology using only RGB cameras and neural networks with all processing on-device for complete privacy.

Privacy first

Our robots are also private by design, with all the computes on the edge device. We believe that families shouldn't have to jeopardize their privacy just to get some help with the constant drudgery of home chores.

Our approach

In 2017, we observed 200+ self-driving car startups and an equal number of industrial robotics startups, but the home robotics space had been dramatically overlooked. While AI is becoming ubiquitous, families are still stuck spending dozens of hours per week on repetitive household chores.

Just like consumers adopted cell phones, then PDAs, then iPods before adopting the iPhone to replace them all, we believe consumers will adopt single-purpose, elegant robots first before getting one-robot-to-rule-all-chores. Our goal is to continue automating household labor, shipping useful, affordable, privacy-first robots while building iteratively toward more complex capabilities over time.

Who we are

We are a consumer robotics product company solving real customer problems. We start with a problem, think of an elegant solution in the form of robots, and conduct necessary research to build products that just work. We believe families want solutions to their problems, and AI & robots enable us to solve them.

Who we are NOT

We are NOT a Robotics Foundation Model research lab, a humanoid builder, or a robotics software platform company. We build fully autonomous, useful, elegant, and affordable Wall-E-esque robotic products that kids, pets, and families love!

How we behave

Matic is a tight-knit and collaborative team, singularly focused on building products our customers will cherish. We're ultra-hardworking people committed to solving tough problems that save precious time and energy.

At Matic, we're eager to take risks and test convention. We love diving headfirst into hard problems — even if it means some failures along the way. We work smart, hard, and long (in that order), chasing innovation and human impact. We highly value individual ownership and take meticulous pride in the work we do, knowing our efforts affect both one another and our customers.

Those who value curiosity and learning and who don't shy away from hard problems thrive at Matic. If you are genuinely committed to innovation and improving the lives of others, we'd love to hear from you.

About the role

Join our Platform and Firmware team on the ground floor as we scale from thousands of robots delighting customers to mass market adoption. You'll work on diverse problems ranging from low-level drivers, developing interfaces to complex algorithms running locally on resource-constrained hardware.

We're looking for someone with strong embedded Linux and C/C++ skills who's eager to learn Rust (see: why we use Rust)

. If you're driven by high levels of ownership and solving complex problems in a fast-paced startup atmosphere, we'd love to chat!

What you'll do

• Develop core device systems software and functionality from the ground up
• Enable mechanical and electrical engineering teams by building a robust software stack that interacts with firmware, motors, sensors and other software agents
• Work with both of the teams to ensure feature feasibility & functionality
• Perform root cause analysis of system crashes and hardware failures
• Identify bugs & bottlenecks to improve system performance
• Develop and debug pipelines for data from cameras and other sensors
• Be an integral member of our small software team

What we look for

• >2 years of industry experience
• Experience with working on C, or C++ microcontroller firmware
• Knowledge of common communication protocols (e.g. USB, RS232, TCP/IP/HTTP)
• Deep experience in multi-threaded C
• Strong familiarity with userspace Linux programming and conventions
• Familiarity with a systems scripting language, such as Shell or Python
• Comfort with a fast-paced, startup atmosphere -- you don’t shy away from the hard work
• High level of maturity, ownership, and pride in your work

We'd love to hear from you if...

• You are genuinely motivated to help those around you
• You are passionate about learning outside of your normal comfort zones
• You love diagnosing complex technical issues
• You are excited to do great work

Our team

Matic is a tight-knit, collaborative team singularly focused on building products our customers will cherish. We're ultra-hardworking people committed to solving tough problems that save precious time and energy.

We're eager to take risks and test convention, diving headfirst into hard problems even if it means some failures along the way. We work smart, hard, and long (in that order), chasing innovation and human impact. We highly value individual ownership and take meticulous pride in our work.

Those who value curiosity, learning, and don't shy away from hard problems thrive at Matic. If you are genuinely committed to innovation and improving the lives of others, we’d love to hear from you.

All roles are based onsite in our Mountain View office.