Robotics Systems Architect
Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Formic
Compensation
$145,000 - $200,000/year
Job Description
Who we are:
Formic is on a mission to reshape American manufacturing by making automation accessible to every factory. As labor constraints rise, costs increase, and global competition intensifies, automation is no longer optional for manufacturers that want to stay competitive.
We deliver automation through a Robotics-as-a-Service model that combines industrial robotics, proprietary software, and full-service support into a single, integrated solution. By removing the traditional barriers of cost, complexity, and risk, we enable manufacturers to deploy automation quickly and realize measurable gains in throughput, safety, and operational efficiency without large upfront capital investment.
Backed by leading investors including Lux Capital, Initialized Capital, Blackhorn Ventures, and Mitsubishi HC Capital North America, Formic is scaling rapidly and building the foundation for a new era of high-performance, Made in America production.
About the team:
The Software Engineering Team builds and operates the systems that power Formic’s Robotics-as-a-Service platform.
Engineering focuses on ensuring deployed systems are observable, resilient, and remotely diagnosable at scale. The team builds production-grade edge and cloud systems that support reliable data collection, remote troubleshooting, live video streaming, and continuous system improvement.
This work directly impacts fleet uptime, service efficiency, and customer outcomes by ensuring Formic’s monitoring and control infrastructure remains scalable, reliable, and continuously evolving.
About this role:
As a Robotics Systems Architect, you will define and lead the control architecture for next-generation intelligent robotic platforms, including wheeled humanoids and advanced mobile manipulators. You will own the system-level design of whole-body control, actuator interfaces, and deterministic execution across the robotics stack.
This role sits at the intersection of hardware, controls, and embodied intelligence. You will work across software, AI, and hardware domains to ensure robotic systems are safe, performant, and deployable in real industrial environments. Your work will directly influence how learning-driven systems translate policy outputs into reliable, real-world motion.
In this role you will:
- Architect and lead development of whole-body control systems for advanced robotic platforms, including humanoids and mobile manipulators
- Design real-time control interfaces and hardware abstraction layers across the robotics stack
- Define actuator interfaces and performance specifications in collaboration with external hardware manufacturing partners
- Develop and optimize kinematics, dynamics, and coordinated motion control systems
- Own safety architecture and deterministic execution across the robotics platform
- Collaborate with AI and perception teams to define state representations and control APIs
- Validate hardware performance, including torque bandwidth, latency, and thermal behavior
- Lead system-level integration, testing, and debugging across hardware and software boundaries
- Drive architectural decisions that balance research flexibility with production reliability
- Ensure systems are deployable, serviceable, and scalable in real-world industrial environments
What makes you a great fit:
- 8+ years of experience building complex robotic systems
- Strong background in control systems, rigid body dynamics, and robot kinematics
- Experience working with mobile manipulators, humanoids, or high-DOF robotic platforms
- Deep understanding of actuator systems, torque control, and motor performance characteristics
- Experience with ROS2, real-time Linux environments, and modern C++
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