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Chef Robotics

Location:
United States, San Francisco

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

170000.00 - 260000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

As a Robotics Software Engineer at Chef Robotics, you’ll help shape the future of automation in food production. You'll play a critical role in designing and developing a scalable manipulation system that powers our robots to prepare millions of meals with precision, consistency, and reliability in high-throughput environments.

Job Responsibility:

Develop classical or ML/RL-based motion planning and manipulation algorithms that work across thousands of different foods with varying physical properties (stickiness, density, viscosity, etc.)
Develop novel algorithms to learn ingredient properties on-the-fly and intelligently adapt manipulation parameters
Incorporate new sensor data (e.g., force control, cameras) for trajectory optimization and metrics to measure ingredient manipulation performance
Analyze manipulation performance across ingredients and optimize trajectories for throughput
Contribute to overall software architecture design and standards, including designing interfaces between subsystems
Champion engineering excellence, ensuring high-quality, well-structured, and well-tested code
Stay up-to-date with the latest robotics research and apply insights in a practical way to our system

Requirements:

BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, robotics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or related field
5+ years of experience in Python and/or C++
Experience leading and shipping complex software projects
Understanding both classical and machine/reinforcement learning approaches to robot manipulation, and the tradeoffs between various techniques
Experience with robotic waypoint generation, path planning, and trajectory smoothing
Experience with common deep learning frameworks like Tensorflow or Pytorch
Excellent software engineering fundamentals
Excellent mathematical skills, especially with geometry, probability and statistics, linear algebra, and machine learning

Nice to have:

Startup experience
You’ve shipped working products under tight deadlines
Robotics research experience, including publications
Experience with trajectory optimization
Experience with the robotics tech stack, e.g., Linux, ROS, OpenCV, CUDA
Experience with calibration, state estimation, and sensor fusion
Experience with basic mechatronics and electronics

What we offer:

medical, dental, and vision insurance
commuter benefits
flexible paid time off (PTO)
catered lunch
401(k) matching
early-stage equity

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 07, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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