Robotics Engineer

The mission of 120ft Factory is to start the new western industrial revolution. We are building the essential infrastructure to close the "Physical AI Deployment Gap." Closing that gap requires a robotics team that iterates against reality in short loops. This role combines a generalist robotics engineering position across the full stack with the Sprint Lead function that keeps the team's cadence sharp and its progress visible.

As a Robotics Engineer you work as a generalist across the humanoid platform, alongside the other founding engineers: robot control and teleoperation, the VLA training stack, mechanical design and end-effectors, and system architecture and behaviour trees. You contribute across all of these — hardware bring-up, data collection, prototyping, integration — and bring the rapid-iteration ethos that turns open questions into physical experiments within days.

As Sprint Lead you additionally run the robotics team's sprint cycle. This is a delivery function, not an architectural one: engineering and technology decisions are led by the domain specialists, and the Sprint Lead's mandate is to shorten the distance between those decisions and working hardware.

• Contribute to physical bring-up, calibration, and maintenance of the humanoid fleet.

• Contribute to the teleoperation and policy-rollout data-collection pipeline feeding our training backends (GR00T, OpenPI) across Isaac Sim and MuJoCo.

• Contribute to real-to-sim asset work, and integration tasks within the defined system architecture.

• Drive rapid prototyping of rigs, fixtures, test stands, and quick-turn parts that get specialist work onto real hardware sooner.

• Surface trade-offs discovered on the floor back to the domain owners with data from real hardware.

• Runs the two-week sprint cycle for the robotics team: sprint planning, daily unblocking, and sprint review.

• Hosts the biweekly all-hands demo: every sprint closes with a demonstration on physical hardware for the whole company, showing what the robots can do that they could not two weeks earlier.

• Owns sprint scope commitments, task sequencing within the sprint, and the demo agenda.

• Keeps the balance tilted towards doing: breaks work into small batches, removes blockers daily, and keeps the cadence one the team can hold over the long run.

• Shapes engineering decisions from the floor: brings prototype results, KPIs in hardware data, and delivery perspective into every discussion on architecture, technology, and standards — the ground truth that keeps those decisions honest.

• Keeps decisions where the expertise is deepest: domain owners make the final calls in their fields, which frees the Sprint Lead to go full speed on what no one else owns — tempo, integration, and the demo.

• BSc or MSc in Mechatronics, Robotics, or equivalent demonstrated through shipped hardware.

• Hands-on experience taking robot hardware from prototype to deployed units.

• Breadth across mechanical design, rapid prototyping, DFMA, electronics, and embedded firmware.

• Strong Python; working familiarity with ROS 2 and modern simulators (Isaac Sim, MuJoCo) — enough to plug into every specialist's workflow.

• Experience setting and holding a build cadence: shipping against deadlines and rallying a team around demos.

• You use AI-assisted development aggressively for speed, and you know when a problem needs a specialist's depth rather than a faster iteration loop.

• Community energy: hackathons, open-source, demos, and public events; you grow our contact surface with the outside world and pull people into the work.

• Practical battle scars from deployed robots: vendor failures, field returns, and the unglamorous work of making hardware reliable.

• You bring the intensity of a ship-fast culture and the judgement to keep it sustainable for the people around you.

We offer a top-tier Stockholm salary combined with an early-stage equity grant (QESO) as part of the founding engineering team, a 5% pension contribution on top of salary, and the standard health care allowance. Relocation support and EU Blue Card sponsorship provided.