Your New Role and Team
Sanctuary AI-a multi-award-winning LinkedIn Top Startup company, is looking to hire a skilled and motivated Lead Systems Integration Engineer. As a main system integration contributor, you will play a crucial role in seamlessly merging our general-purpose robots' mechanical, electronic, and software components. Reporting to the Chief Product Officer (CPO), you will actively contribute to the integration process, ensuring the delivery of robotic systems that are both capable and reliable.
Our sophisticated general-purpose robotic system, accessible remotely, encompasses a multitude of interacting software, networking, and hardware components. Ensuring seamless interaction and swiftly identifying friction points is crucial for timely and dependable project deliveries. As Sanctuary AI's Lead Integration Engineer, you'll be a valued part of the team as you define a methodology and lead the team to quickly resolve system-level integration issues and contribute to enhancing the general-purpose robots' overall reliability, performance, and safety.
Our Success Criteria - Lead and manage the system integration team, setting clear goals and ensuring project milestones are met
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including mechanical design, electronics, and software development, to ensure a cohesive integration strategy
- Develop and implement robust integration processes and methodologies, optimizing for efficiency, reliability, and scalability
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex integration issues, applying a deep understanding of the interdisciplinary nature of robotics
- Oversee the testing and validation of integrated systems, ensuring compliance with technical specifications and quality standards
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders, providing regular updates on integration progress, challenges, and achievements
Your Experience
Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in a complex hardware and software integration role, with at least 2 years in a leadership position
- Expert-level technical background in robotics, including familiarity with robotic components, systems, and software
- Proven ability to manage and lead technical teams, driving projects to completion within tight deadlines
- Demonstrated success in multidisciplinary design environments, overseeing test cases, progress monitoring, user acceptance testing (UAT) sessions, and ensuring organized and timely data acquisition activities
- Experience developing and managing data analysis tools and data aggregation tools for systemic debugging
- Experience collaborating with engineers and project stakeholders to clarify business requirements and testing expectations
Skills
- Experience with shells and scripting languages: Bash, Zsh, Python, Java Script, etc.
- Proficiency in UNIX or Linux
- Expert-level knowledge of IP networking protocols. Deep understanding of communication infrastructures (TCP/IP, QoS, encryption, etc.)
- Advanced networking skills: IP routing and switching (DHCP, NAT, VLAN, Security, etc.)
- Proficiency in implementing multiple software development principles and programming languages (e.g., Python, C/C++, Matlab)
- Understanding of automated testing (i.e., Selenium, Cypress, Insomnia, PHPUnit)
- Experience with sensor hardware and software integration
- Understanding of control systems and experience designing or testing controllers in real-world applications
- Familiarity with calibration techniques used in machine vision systems and robotics
- Experience setting up hardware testing fixtures and apparatuses
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
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.
Benefits
Full time (non co-op) employees enjoy medical/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, wellness programs, stock options, paid time off (3 weeks vacation accrued annually, paid statutory holidays, paid statutory sick leave, and statutory parental leave), scheduling and worksite flexibility by role, and more.
About Sanctuary AI
Founded in 2018 by Geordie Rose, Suzanne Gildert, Olivia Norton, and Ajay Agrawal, Sanctuary AI is a Vancouver, Canada-based company. Sanctuary AI is on a mission to create the world's first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that will help us work more safely, efficiently, and sustainably. And in the not-too-distant future, help us explore, settle, and prosper in outer space.
Members of the Sanctuary AI team founded D-Wave (a pioneer in the quantum computing industry), Kindred (first use of reinforcement learning in a production robot), and the Creative Destruction Lab (pioneered a revolutionary method for the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind). The team has experience launching market-defining innovations rooted in previously unsolved and deep scientific problems.
Recruiting & 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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