Robotics Engineer

About Anthrogen

We're training the next generation of protein foundation models.

The role

## Robotics Engineer — Early Team (SF)We’re a seed-stage team in San Francisco building robotic systems to automate real-world lab workflows. Most lab processes today are still manual, slow, and error-prone.Our goal is to build a fully autonomous, “black-box” lab — systems that can take in high-level inputs and run physical workflows end-to-end without human intervention.We’re not there yet. The system is still evolving, and a big part of this role is figuring out what actually works and making it reliable.---### What you’ll do* Design and build mechanical and electromechanical subsystems* Write the code that actually runs the system (control logic, sequencing, hardware interfaces)* Bring up new hardware and get it working end-to-end* Debug failures across the full system — mechanical, electrical, and software* Iterate until systems are stable and repeatable, not just working once---### Required* You’ve built and delivered at least one complex physical system with real ownership* You’re comfortable writing code that interfaces directly with hardware* Strong ability in at least one area: * Mechanical design * Controls * Embedded / systems programming* Experience working with motors, sensors, and power in a real system* Good at solving unexpected problems---### Preferred* Experience building systems that had to run reliably over time, not just demos* Experience integrating multiple subsystems into a working system* Prior startup, lab, or independent build experience---### What this role requires* Ownership — you will be responsible for real parts of the system* Comfort with ambiguity — we are still figuring things out* Speed — we build and iterate quickly---### Details* San Francisco (in-person)* Compensation: $140k–$220k + equity

Skills

• Arduino
• C
• Git
• Reinforcement learning (RL)