Jobs at Rhoda AI

Develop automated test frameworks and hardware-in-the-loop validation environments for robotic hardware, firmware, and software. Reproduce multidisciplinary failures, maintain requirements-to-results traceability, generate reliability and performance data, and support root-cause analysis and product readiness decisions.

Lead technical data programs from pilot through production and delivery for intelligent robotics. Translate requirements into plans, milestones, dependencies, and timelines; coordinate Research, Engineering, Hardware, Software, Data Infrastructure, Operations, and vendors; manage risks and blockers; establish dashboards and operating cadences; and ensure data delivery meets schedule, quality, and scale requirements.

Own the reliability engineering discipline for generalist industrial robots. Develop mission profiles, duty-cycle models, acceleration factors, sample sizes, and pass/fail criteria for accelerated testing. Lead FMEA/FMECA, quantitative reliability modeling, and failure analysis across electromechanical systems including actuators, motors, power electronics, and structures. Partner with design and test engineers to drive root-cause fixes, establish reliability data infrastructure, and track product reliability from prototype through production.

Design and iterate hand-scale electronics: schematic and PCB layout, motor-drive stages, current sensing, low-latency sensing-to-actuation signal chains, harnessing and interconnects. Support board bring-up, debugging, and validation through rapid prototypes and collaborate with firmware engineers to achieve high-fidelity teleoperation.

Lead FP&A: own financial model, build budgeting and forecasting processes, partner with cross-functional leaders, perform strategic analyses. Support capital markets, cap table and investor relations. Build commercial finance and revenue recognition frameworks for first deployments, run procurement and vendor negotiations, and support contract reviews.

Design compact motor-gearbox actuators for robot hands from concept through production. Architect miniaturized geartrains (especially planetary), size/select motors, run bench and dyno tests, and collaborate on packaging, thermal, drive, and sensing integration.

Manage procurement for New Product Introduction: source and evaluate suppliers, negotiate terms, expedite POs, handle ECNs, monitor inventory and on-time delivery, reduce cost/lead time/risk, and collaborate with engineering to protect build schedules.

Design, build, and operate dynos, gear rigs, cooling benches, and durability fixtures to characterize motors and actuators. Define DAQ architecture, run high-throughput tests, ensure data integrity, and partner with modeling and design teams to validate performance and durability.

Lead AI system safety assurance for humanoid robots: perform STPA/FMEA hazard analyses, assess model-update risks, define AI safety requirements (inputs, confidence, OOD), develop V&V test cases, deploy validation cells, maintain traceability, and produce evidence packages for certification.

Design and deliver mechanical actuator components (motors, gear trains, housings) from concept through production. Create high-fidelity CAD and engineering drawings with GD&T, perform tolerance stack-ups, collaborate with modeling and test teams to define test plans, coordinate suppliers and RFQs, support characterization and iterative design, and ensure manufacturability, cost, and reliability for high-cycle electromechanical systems.

Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines, manage build artifact storage, operate cloud and GPU clusters, enhance MLOps training/deployment and observability, and harden security and multi-tenancy for robot infrastructure.

Lead system-level electrical design for industrial robotics: own schematics and PCB work in Altium, integrate sensors, motor drives, high-speed SerDes cameras, networking (EtherCAT/Ethernet/Wi‑Fi/5G), audio and display HMIs, cable harnesses, and industrial-grade designs. Collaborate with firmware, mechanical, supply chain, and manufacturing; run design reviews, validation, NPI support, and mentor engineers.

Lead end-to-end program execution for software and controls across autonomy, perception, embedded firmware, and real-time control systems. Manage sprint planning, dependencies, risk, milestones, architecture reviews, and cross-functional coordination to deliver field-ready robotics software from prototype through production. Establish scalable program practices and ensure technical readiness against hardware and certification constraints.

Lead end-to-end mechanical design of a humanoid robot upper arm, including shoulder and elbow structures, interfaces to torso and lower arm, actuator integration, electrical packaging, harness routing, and thermal design. Drive FMEAs, validation and durability testing, CAD models, drawings, BOMs, prototype builds, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating cross-functionally to close interfaces and iterate from test results.

Lead design and integration of the robot mobile base: drivetrain, actuators, brakes, battery interface, suspension, structural cast base, thermal and ingress protection. Manage vendors, prototype builds, testing, BOMs/CAD, and mentor junior engineers to drive designs from concept through validation.

Work on the mono leg of a humanoid robot: design actuator packaging and cast structural parts, implement thermal paths, run basic structural and thermal tests, build prototypes, maintain CAD models/drawings/BOMs, and collaborate across actuation, electrical, base, and torso teams under senior engineer supervision.

Develop and maintain onboard control software for humanoid robots, including control loops, state estimation, actuator interfaces, and motion planning. Integrate learned policies with hardware, improve system reliability and fault recovery, debug sim-to-real discrepancies, and support hardware bring-up and field testing.

Own the end-to-end partner platform for Rhoda's robot foundation models: define APIs, tooling, integration boundaries, partner qualification, developer experience, documentation, and roadmap while working directly with partner engineering teams.

Translate customer use cases into deployed robotic solutions: scope projects, design and prototype grippers/EOAT and fixtures, validate work-cells, debug systems, and collaborate on AI model deployment and data-collection strategies to drive robust field performance.

Build and operate cloud infrastructure powering data collection, robot field operations, and model training. Ensure reliability, low latency, and scalability across databases, object storage, compute, and backend services; develop observability, debug production incidents, and collaborate with research and robotics teams.