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Original posting from SWARM Biotactics
You will be based out of our San Diego, CA offices located in Torrey Pines.
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At SWARM Biotactics, we’re creating biorobots — living, intelligent systems based on insects. Each insect carries a custom-designed backpack that enables wireless control, sensing, and secure communication.
Biorobot swarms combine the agility of biology with AI, sensors, and swarm coordination — unlocking capabilities where conventional machines fail.
We are the only company in the world doing this — and we’re pushing the edge of what’s possible in every domain: from biology to embedded hardware to swarm intelligence.
Robust autonomy depends on tight integration across sensing, mechatronics, robotics software, and learning-based components.
We are looking for a senior, hands‑on engineer with substantial professional experience who can take ownership of prototyping end‑to‑end capabilities across these layers — from sensor selection to a perception PoC.
🚀 Join us at the frontier — and build the core autonomy capabilities for the first generation of living machines.
💡 What you’ll do
- Own end-to-end integration of sensing and mechatronic components in real-world systems
- Evaluate and integrate sensors and perception inputs, ensuring reliable data quality and robust pipelines
- Work across mechatronics, embedded‑adjacent bring‑up, and robotics software integration as needed
- Integrate and extend core robotics stacks (e.g., perception interfaces, estimation hooks, autonomy modules) for unconventional platforms
- Prototype learning‑based components where they create leverage, with a focus on robustness and measurable performance
- Design and run practical experiments to validate systems in realistic conditions
- Collaborate closely with robotics, AI, autonomy, software, and biology teams
🧠 What we’re looking for
- Excellent Master’s degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, or a closely related field
- 5+ years of full-time, professional experience building and integrating robotics systems (student roles, internships, or purely academic projects are not sufficient)
- Demonstrated ability to operate across disciplines: sensing, mechatronics, robotics software integration, and applied AI
- Comfortable with hardware‑near development and rapid prototyping
- Software engineering skills and a track record of ownership for complex components
- Ability to move between abstraction levels: system design, implementation, debugging, and validation
- Practical mindset: you work well with imperfect data and improve systems through iteration and measurement
➕ Nice to have
- Computer vision and/or perception experience
- Field testing, simulation-to-real workflows, or work on constrained/unconventional platforms
- We’re well‑funded and expanding fast in a space no one else is in.
- You’ll join a world‑class team working on the frontier of science and engineering.
- Your work will directly shape the foundation of biorobotic systems that redefine the interface between life and technology.
⚡ Join the Swarm
If you want to build foundational systems for technology that has never existed before, we’d love to hear from you.
Source: SWARM Biotactics careers