# Founding Robotics Software Engineer - Company: [Bracket Bot]() - Location: San Francisco - Team: Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Posted: January 10, 2026 ## Job description # Founding Robotics Software Engineer **Location:** San Francisco (preferred) / US **Type:** Full-time · Founding Team ## About Bracket Bot **Bracket Bot is building low-cost, general-purpose robots that developers can program and deploy in days.** We’re transforming the world’s ~50 million software engineers into robotics engineers by building a full-stack platform—hardware, software, infra, and ML—designed from first principles for performance, usability, and cost. Low expense is a design goal, not a constraint. By transforming commodity, mass-manufactured components through disciplined engineering, we deliver robots that are reliable, high-performance, and inexpensive to build and operate. We believe fewer than 1,000 engineers globally can reason about robotics as a true vertically-integrated system, and we’re assembling a small team of them to build an accessible, developer-first robotics platform. We’re backed by an amazing group of investors, **co-led by Fifty Years (Scott Phoenix)** and **BoxGroup**, with participation from **Betaworks** and **Pace Capital**, plus standout angels including **Logan Kilpatrick** (Google AI), **Mohith Mothukuri** (Physical Intelligence), and **Guillermo Rauch** (Vercel). Bracket Bot is building a low-expense, high-performance robotics platform ready for real-world deployment. ## About the role We’re hiring a **Founding Robotics Software Engineer** to own our navigation stack end-to-end. This is a core, full-time problem — not a side project. You’ll be responsible for making our robot reliably understand and move through real environments. ## What you’ll do * Own SLAM, mapping, localization, and path planning * Work with point clouds, sensor fusion, and perception pipelines * Debug sim → real gaps on physical robots * Collaborate closely with mechanical and electrical engineers * Push navigation into messy, real-world environments (not just demos) ## What we’re looking for * Strong robotics SWE background * Experience with SLAM, mapping, navigation, or perception * Comfort working with real robots (ROS or custom stacks) * Bias toward robustness and simplicity ## Nice to have * Point clouds, COLMAP / SfM, Gaussian splatting * Field robotics or autonomy experience ## Important notes * This is **not** a research-only role * This is **not** a “plug-in, open-source, and walk away” role * We care about judgment, ownership, and robustness **Equal Opportunity Employer** Bracket Bot is an equal opportunity employer. We’re building a diverse team and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. ## Apply [Apply on Bracket Bot]() Canonical job page: