# Embedded Engineer at Physical Intelligence

Embedded Engineer at Physical Intelligence in San Francisco. On-site, full-time. Posted September 12, 2026.

- Company: Physical Intelligence
- Location: San Francisco
- Workplace: On-site
- Job type: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-09-12
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/physicalintelligence/50f00992-a6c4-480b-a000-2efba5283379/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/embedded-engineer-physical-intelligence-vmsv4t

## Requirements

- Nice to have: Direct experience with Linux Kernel development, including writing or debugging drivers, managing device trees, or optimizing kernel-space performance.

## Description

Physical Intelligence is bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world. We are a team of engineers, scientists, roboticists, and company builders developing foundation models and learning algorithms to power the robots of today and the physically-actuated devices of the future.
**The team**
This role is part of the Runtime team, but will include deep collaboration with the Research, Hardware, and Fleet teams.
**In this role you will:**

- Drive the architecture and implementation of embedded firmware for devices crucial to PI’s data collection goals

- Work with hardware and software teams to ensure the new devices we are building work seamlessly with existing and future data pipelines

- Embedded Linux System Bring-up: Lead the integration of embedded Linux devices with real-time sensor processing. This includes developing drivers for high-speed sensors, BSP development and customization, kernel configuration and debugging, hardware bring-up, and performance tuning across the hardware/software boundary.

- Hardware/Software Debugging: Use hardware abstraction tools and laboratory equipment to identify and resolve complex timing issues, race conditions, and hardware-software interface bugs.

- Power Optimization: Analyze and reduce power consumption for battery-operated devices, including on radio sleep states and sensor low-power modes.

**What we hope you'll bring:**

- BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.

- Strong software engineering and infrastructure skills, including building data pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and tools for rapid iteration.

- Comfort working hands-on with hardware.

- Strong communication skills for collaborating with hardware, software, and research teams

- Demonstrated experience leading initiatives from concept to production on aggressive schedules, and turning ambiguous product goals into functional requirements

- Experience leading initial board bring-up and software design for first-of-their-kind embedded devices.

- Hands-on experience with SPI, I2C, UART, USB, and the ability to debug complex hardware-software interactions.

- Experience architecting, implementing and debugging concurrent and multithreaded firmware services

- Deep understanding of modern operating systems, computer architecture, and trade-offs between compute, memory, and storage.

- Experience bringing up and integrating sensors on embedded systems; camera system bring-up, integration, and tuning is a plus.

- Proficiency in C++

- Familiarity with Bash scripting and Python for tooling and automation.

**Bonus points if you have:**

- Nice to have: Direct experience with Linux Kernel development, including writing or debugging drivers, managing device trees, or optimizing kernel-space performance.

*Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.*