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# Backend Software Engineer (Robotics Systems) at Intrinsic

- **Company:** Intrinsic
- **Location:** Mountain View, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-04-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://boards.greenhouse.io/intrinsicrobotics/jobs/5973679004?gh_jid=5973679004

## Job description

Intrinsic is an AI robotics group at Google aiming to reimagine the potential of industrial robotics. Our team believes that advances in AI, perception and simulation will redefine what’s possible for industrial robotics in the near future – with software and data at the core.

Our mission is to make industrial robotics intelligent, accessible, and usable for millions more businesses, entrepreneurs, and developers. We are a dynamic team of engineers, roboticists, designers, and technologists who are passionate about unlocking the creative and economic potential of industrial robotics.

## Role

As a Robotics Systems Engineer, you will build the connection between our web-based software and the physical hardware on the manufacturing floor. You are responsible for ensuring that when an operator interacts with our interface, the robotic system responds instantly and safely, from synchronizing data records to controlling physical signal lights. You will own the entire lifecycle of a command, ensuring it is authorized, recorded, and executed correctly even if the network is unstable. Your work ensures that our software is a reliable and intuitive controller for the next generation of physical automation.

How your work moves the mission forward

- Implement secure login and identity systems that manage user access levels and ensure only authorized personnel can trigger physical hardware actions.
- Develop the control logic that bridges the web interface to physical hardware components, including status lights, emergency stops, and operator consoles.
- Architect resilient data systems that store robot telemetry locally during network outages and synchronize with the cloud once a connection is restored.
- Build the backend infrastructure required to support multi-tenant environments, ensuring strict data isolation and security between different customers.
- Design reliable communication pathways between web browsers and hardware controllers to ensure low-latency feedback for the operator.
- Create detailed audit logs that link every physical hardware action back to a specific, authenticated user for safety and forensic review.

## Skills you will need to be successful

- Professional experience designing and implementing granular user permissions and access control levels within a multi-user software environment.
- Proficiency in interfacing software with physical hardware through digital inputs and outputs (such as controlling lights, switches, or sensors).
- Expertise in fullstack development, moving comfortably between server-side logic (Python or C++) and client-side web applications (TypeScript).
- Practical experience with network communication protocols used to send data between different pieces of hardware and software.

## Skills that will differentiate your candidacy

- Experience with industrial communication standards used to talk to factory equipment and hardware controllers.
- Understanding of distributed systems and how to resolve data conflicts with multi user access.
- Experience with real-time operating systems or high-performance messaging systems for low-latency control.
- Previous experience building industrial human-machine interfaces or control panels for complex machinery.
- Familiarity with modern build and deployment tools (such as Bazel or containerization) to manage complex, multi-component software.

At Intrinsic, we are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment at Intrinsic is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. Intrinsic does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. It is Intrinsic’s policy to comply with all applicable national, state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us at: candidate-support@intrinsic.ai.

## About Intrinsic

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Intrinsic is a software and AI robotics company at Alphabet building an open, AI-integrated platform to make industrial robots radically easier to program, use, and innovate with.
- **Entity Type**: Private subsidiary of Alphabet (parent company: Google LLC)
- **Headquarters**: Mountain View, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed as individual founders; the company emerged from X (Alphabet’s moonshot factory) and acquired several robotics startups (Vicarious, Open Source Robotics Corporation, Akasha Imaging) to form its core team.

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Industrial automation, robotics software, AI-driven perception and motion planning
- **Target customers**: Solution builders, system integrators, developers, and businesses in manufacturing, logistics, and other industrial sectors (B2B, enterprise)
- **Mission statement**: “To democratize access to robotics” – making intelligent automation practical, affordable, and productive for millions more businesses and developers.

## Products & Services
- **Intrinsic Flowstate**: An all-in-one developer environment for building production-grade automation solutions. Provides tools for perception, motion planning, and sensor-based control in a composable, low-code environment.
- **Intrinsic OS**: The underlying infrastructure that enables seamless development and deployment across different hardware and software ecosystems, from simulation to real-world robots.
- **Intrinsic Capabilities (modular)**: Standalone AI-powered modules for perception (pose estimation via few-shot learning), motion planning (auto-collision avoidance), and real-time sensor-based control using force/torque/distance data.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private Alphabet subsidiary)
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Annual Revenue: Estimated $1.5M (LinkedIn data, may reflect early-stage/pre-revenue status) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/intrinsic)
  - Total Funding: $113M (Series A, July 2021) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/intrinsic)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Alphabet (parent company); prior acquisitions include Vicarious (2022), Open Source Robotics Corporation (2022), and Akasha Imaging.
- **Growth Signals**: Employee headcount of 223 (+19.3% YoY); operates in 11 countries with labs/offices in Mountain View, Munich, and Singapore; active job postings (31 roles as of mid-2026); 35,637 LinkedIn followers with 59.7% yearly growth.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Alphabet backing**: Deep resources, talent, and long-term R&D support.
- **Open, interoperable platform**: Focus on reducing “plumbing” work so developers can combine different hardware/software easily.
- **AI-first approach**: Integrates state-of-the-art perception, planning, and control models that are trained with minimal data (e.g., few-shot pose estimation).
- **Top-tier talent pool**: Core team drawn from acquisitions of Vicarious, Open Robotics, and Akasha, plus hires from Google, Stanford, and leading robotics labs.

## Strategic Focus
- **Platform adoption**: Drive adoption of Intrinsic Flowstate among system integrators and OEMs.
- **Ecosystem expansion**: Build a community of solution builders and third-party developers around the Intrinsic OS.
- **Vertical applications**: Enable end-to-end automation solutions for industries like manufacturing, logistics, and assembly through partner collaborations.
- **Continuous AI improvement**: Advance capabilities in grasping, manipulation, and real-time sensor feedback.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven work**: Directly contributing to making robotics accessible to millions, with a clear, audacious goal [intrinsic.ai/mission](https://www.intrinsic.ai/mission).
- **Competitive benefits**: As an Alphabet company, offers generous healthcare (medical/dental/vision), parental leave, fertility support, 401(k) with match, student loan reimbursement, equity, and annual performance bonus [intrinsic.ai/careers](https://www.intrinsic.ai/careers).
- **Flexibility and hybrid model**: Hybrid work model balancing in-person collaboration with individual flexibility; paid time off and holidays [intrinsic.ai/careers](https://www.intrinsic.ai/careers).
- **Global, multidisciplinary team**: Offices in Mountain View (USA), Munich (Germany), and Singapore; employees from diverse backgrounds in engineering, research, product, and design [intrinsic.ai/careers](https://www.intrinsic.ai/careers).
- **Autonomy and impact**: Culture of individual autonomy from day one, working on seemingly intractable problems with some of the brightest minds in robotics and AI [intrinsic.ai/careers](https://www.intrinsic.ai/careers).
- **Learning and growth**: Educational reimbursement, donation matching, and time off to volunteer; internship program available [intrinsic.ai/careers](https://www.intrinsic.ai/careers).

## Sources
1. [intrinsic.ai](https://www.intrinsic.ai/) – Company homepage, product overview
2. [intrinsic.ai/careers](https://www.intrinsic.ai/careers) – Careers, benefits, culture, FAQ
3. [intrinsic.ai/mission](https://www.intrinsic.ai/mission) – Mission statement and why Intrinsic exists
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/intrinsic) – LinkedIn company profile (headcount, funding, revenue, growth metrics)
5. [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/intrinsicrobotics) – Open job postings and application portal

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