Robotics Computer Vision Engineer

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.

The Software Engineering Team builds and operates the systems that power Formic’s Robotics-as-a-Service platform. The team develops the monitoring, provisioning, and data infrastructure that enables real-time visibility across a growing fleet of deployed industrial robotic systems. Engineering ensures systems are observable, resilient, and remotely diagnosable at scale by building 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.

Within Engineering, Formic is launching a brand-new Advanced Robotics Team focused on building next-generation intelligent robotic systems designed to operate in real industrial environments. This team will develop wheeled humanoids and advanced mobile manipulation platforms, pushing beyond classical robotics stacks into modern embodied AI systems.

Formic is uniquely positioned to do this. We already operate hundreds of deployed robotic systems and maintain production-grade deployment, monitoring, and fleet infrastructure across real manufacturing customers. This provides what most humanoid startups do not: continuous real-world data, production testing environments, and a clear path from research to scaled deployment.

This is not a demo lab. We are building learning-driven robotic systems that operate daily in real factories.

As a Robotics Platform Engineer, you will design and maintain the distributed software architecture that powers robotic learning, deployment, and observability. You will ensure systems are reproducible, scalable, and robust across simulation and real-world hardware environments.

• Design and maintain distributed robotics software architecture
• Build middleware and data pipelines for real-time robotic systems
• Develop logging, replay, and observability tools
• Build scalable data infrastructure to support AI training workflows
• Implement model versioning, deployment, and rollback systems
• Optimize performance and latency across distributed compute nodes
• Develop CI/CD pipelines for simulation and hardware testing
• Enable reproducible experiments across simulation and production deployments
• Support large‑scale data collection from deployed robotic systems

• 5+ years of experience in robotics software or autonomous systems
• Strong C++ and systems programming experience
• Experience with ROS2, DDS, and real-time Linux
• Experience building distributed, high-performance, or latency-sensitive systems
• Familiarity with GPU compute and ML training pipelines
• Strong Dev Ops and CI/CD experience
• Experience supporting production-grade systems beyond research prototypes

At Formic, we believe people do their best work when they feel supported both professionally and personally. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits and perks package for full-time, U.S.

-based team members, including:

• Equity in Formic:
  Participate in our stock option program and share in the success of a fast-growing start‑up backed by leading global investors
• Competitive & Uncapped Commission Structure:
  Designed to reward…