Jobs at Persona AI Inc

Own embedded perception sensor systems from hardware bring-up through production. Develop camera drivers, device tree overlays, and low-latency sensor pipelines on NVIDIA Jetson platforms. Build multi-sensor synchronization, calibration, and validation infrastructure, while partnering with electrical engineers and silicon vendors. Qualify sensors for harsh industrial environments involving heat, vibration, EMI, welding arcs, and ingress. Support perception and autonomy teams as the technical authority on sensor capabilities.

Build and lead Persona AI’s end-to-end supply chain organization, including strategic sourcing, procurement, planning, logistics, warehousing, supplier qualification, and inventory management. Establish processes, systems, KPIs, compliance standards, and supplier partnerships while supporting robotics manufacturing scale-up. Manage RFx processes, make-versus-buy decisions, purchase orders, expediting, contracts, cost optimization, and NPI sourcing. Collaborate with engineering on manufacturability and transition products from development to volume manufacturing.

Support development of dexterous manipulation algorithms for humanoid robots, including perception, grasping, motion planning, trajectory optimization, and control. Build simulation environments in MuJoCo and Isaac Sim, test algorithms in simulated and real-world settings, integrate components with whole-body controllers, and collaborate on machine-learning-based manipulation. Contribute to research and implementation involving force control, visual/tactile servoing, dual-arm manipulation, and in-hand object manipulation.

Own full-cycle recruiting for highly technical engineering and robotics roles, from intake and custom sourcing through interviews, offers, relocation persuasion, and start date. Build passive-candidate pipelines using Boolean search, LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, academic networks, publications, conferences, competitor mapping, and AI tools. Partner with hiring managers, assess technical depth and motivation, manage multiple requisitions, maintain ATS data, report funnel metrics, and represent Persona AI to prospective candidates.

Own full-cycle technical recruiting for manufacturing and operations roles, building candidate pipelines through LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, trade schools, referrals, and industry networks. Partner with hiring managers, deliver strong candidate experiences, track recruiting metrics, improve talent acquisition infrastructure, and support employer branding. The role is fully onsite in Houston and focuses on scaling Persona AI’s advanced manufacturing workforce.

Design, implement, and tune real-time motor and actuator control systems for humanoid robots. Develop embedded C/C++ firmware on microcontrollers or DSPs, model actuator dynamics, and apply PID, cascaded-loop, feedforward, and state-observer techniques. Bring up and characterize hardware, debug control issues with laboratory instrumentation, and collaborate with electrical, mechanical, autonomy, motion-planning, and software teams. Document control architectures and tuning procedures while supporting reliable, safe robot performance.

Design and implement autonomy and behavior coordination algorithms for industrial humanoid robots. Integrate manipulation, locomotion, and perception capabilities; develop safe, reactive plan execution using classical control and learned policies; build data curation, synthetic data generation, behavior evaluation, benchmarking, and regression-testing pipelines. The role supports simulation and deployment at live industrial sites and requires expertise in robotics autonomy, world models, NVIDIA Cosmos, and Isaac Sim.

Own the developer infrastructure supporting a robotics software organization, including large-scale CI, reproducible builds, cross-compilation, release delivery, developer environments, fleet rollouts, observability, and hybrid cloud/on-prem infrastructure. The role also manages physical lab and deployment-site systems, offline-capable registries, networking, robot updates, and secure artifact provenance.

Build full-stack robotics software connecting controls, hardware, and XR systems. Responsibilities include hardware SDK integration, low-latency data streaming over unreliable networks, motion retargeting, robot control, fleet monitoring, metrics, alerting, and rendering optimization. The role requires production Rust, Python tooling, low-level networking, embedded Linux, systems architecture, and API design, with collaboration across hardware, firmware, and XR teams.

Support PCBA design and testing, cabling and grounding prototyping, embedded software development and validation, and produce technical documentation for humanoid robotics projects while collaborating with mechanical and electrical teams.

Design and bring up highly integrated PCBAs and rigid-flex circuits for humanoid robot actuators, sensors, perception, and compute systems. Responsibilities include HDI and high-speed layout, mixed-signal and power design, signal and power integrity, board debugging, mechanical co-design, manufacturing collaboration, and embedded firmware support. The role partners across engineering and manufacturing to deliver dense, reliable electronics through production ramp.

Develop and manage NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Omniverse simulation environments for humanoid robotics, integrating autonomy subsystems and creating CI/CD pipelines for behavior validation.

Lead build-out of the quality function: establish incoming inspection, supplier quality (PPAP), root-cause (8D), metrology and calibration, ISO 9001 certification, factory and field failure investigations, and visual factory quality systems while collaborating across Supply Chain, Assembly, and field teams with ~40% travel.

Develop and iterate reinforcement learning policies for dexterous grasping on high-DOF robotic hands. Build sim-to-real pipelines, design rewards and curricula, create MuJoCo/Isaac training environments, run and debug experiments on hardware, integrate tactile feedback, and benchmark grasp policies across varied objects and real-world conditions.

Lead design and implementation of factory layout, process flow, and assembly sequencing for humanoid robot production. Develop work instructions, specify equipment, implement MES, design metrics/visual management, error-proof processes, drive continuous improvement, perform root-cause analysis, and collaborate cross-functionally to scale manufacturing while maintaining safety and ISO compliance.

Hands-on working lead for two robot assembly cells (fine-motor and heavy-structure). Build and verify assemblies, sequence work, qualify and train assemblers, own first-piece buyoffs, maintain calibration and serialization discipline, enforce floor safety, report status to Production Manager, and escalate quality or material issues.

Design, train, and deploy advanced deep learning models for dexterous humanoid robot manipulation, integrating tactile and proprioceptive sensing, managing data collection/versioning, evaluating in simulation and real-world trials, and optimizing pipelines for real-time hardware deployment.

Design and develop Persona's ML software stack for humanoid robots, applying ML to manipulation, navigation, locomotion, and perception. Build, test, and deploy models and data pipelines, monitor real-world performance, collaborate with partners and universities, and help grow the ML and autonomy teams.

Lead development of the robot platform software: real-time control loops, hardware abstraction, deterministic messaging, and robot API/SDK. Ensure timing guarantees, fault recovery, diagnostics, and long-term API stability. Set platform architecture, mentor engineers, and collaborate with controls, perception, and operations teams to produce reliable on-robot systems for industrial deployments.

Work on world modeling for humanoid robots by curating industrial video data, fine-tuning foundation models, building data and synthetic-generation pipelines, integrating autonomy behaviors, and creating evaluation and benchmarking pipelines.