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title: 'Firmware at The Bot Company'
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# Firmware at The Bot Company

- **Company:** The Bot Company
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-11-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thebotcompany/a7475ed8-b2b3-4393-aba1-d18ae44f732a

## Job description

The Bot Company We're building a helpful robot for every home. We're a small team of engineers, designers, and operators based in San Francisco. Our team comes from Tesla, Cruise, OpenAI, Google, Pixar, and many other great companies. In the past we've shipped to hundreds of millions of users and know what it takes to build amazing products and experiences. Our team is deliberately lean to promote rapid decision making and do away with bureaucracy and hierarchy. Everyone is an IC and is empowered with massive scope, radical ownership, and direct responsibility. We work across the stack with a culture built for rapid iteration and fast execution.

## What we look for in all candidates

All roles at The Bot Company demand extreme sharpness and the ability to move fast in high-intensity environments. Throughout the process, we expect candidates to demonstrate:

- Exceptional mental acuity: you think quickly, learn instantly, and reason across unfamiliar domains.
- Engineering curiosity: you naturally dig into how systems work, even outside your specialty.
- High performance mindset: you move fast, handle ambiguity, and excel when the environment is demanding.

Firmware Engineer You'll architect and build the embedded systems that power the sensing, actuation, communication, and safety functions inside our robots. You'll define scalable firmware and system architectures while owning products from initial board bring-up through system integration, validation, manufacturing ramp, and large-scale production.

## What You’ll Do

- Develop real-time firmware for robotic actuators, sensors, communications, and power systems.
- Own firmware from custom board bring-up through validation, production ramp, and sustained manufacturing.
- Build drivers and interfaces for ADCs, timers, PWM, DMA, SPI, I²C, UART, CAN, and other peripherals.
- Integrate encoders, force sensors, IMUs, current sensors, cameras, and other feedback devices.
- Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, controls, ML, test, and manufacturing engineers.
- Investigate hardware and firmware failures, manufacturing yield issues, and field reliability problems.

## Requirements

- Strong embedded programming skills in C, C++, or Rust.
- Experience developing firmware for microcontrollers in bare-metal or RTOS environments.
- Strong understanding of interrupts, timing, concurrency, memory constraints, and real-time behavior.
- Experience bringing up custom hardware and debugging across firmware, electronics, and physical systems.
- Ability to read schematics, PCB layouts, and component datasheets.
- Familiarity with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, debuggers, and data-logging tools.
- Experience supporting physical products through validation, manufacturing ramp, or volume production.
- Strong ownership and ability to collaborate across engineering, manufacturing, and supplier teams.

Bonus Qualifications

- Hands-on NPI experience taking embedded products through EVT, DVT, and PVT into mass production.
- Experience working directly with contract manufacturers, joint development manufacturers, or original design manufacturers.
- Experience developing factory programming, calibration, functional-test, and end-of-line test systems.
- Motor-control experience, including FOC, actuators, closed-loop control, or power electronics.
- Experience integrating production camera pipelines, including MIPI CSI-2, GMSL, ISP configuration and tuning, camera synchronization, and hardware-accelerated video encoding or compression.
- Bootloaders, secure provisioning, firmware updates, production release management, or HIL testing.

## Why Join

You’ll work with a small, elite team on challenges that require speed, intelligence, and deep engineering instinct. If you enjoy understanding systems at all levels, move fast, and think even faster, you’ll thrive here.

## About The Bot Company

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: The Bot Company is building a helpful robot for every home, starting with automating household chores to give people back their time.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, Unicorn)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Paril Jain, Kyle Vogt, Luke Holoubek

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
- **Target Customers**: B2C (homeowners and families)
- **Mission**: To make the dream of robots doing all the little things that eat away at our time and energy a reality.

## Products & Services
- **Home Robot (unnamed)**: An AI-powered robot designed to perform household cleaning and chore tasks. The company is currently in stealth mode, but job postings and descriptions point to a general-purpose robot for the home. Type: Hardware + AI Software.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $1–2.5 billion (unicorn, as of 2026) [dealroom.co](https://dealroom.co/companies/the-bot-company/)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised of $301 million (Series A: $151M in May 2024; Series B: closed in March 2025; an additional $250M round is upcoming) [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/597464-92)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Greenoaks, NFDG, Spark Capital (Nabeel Hyatt), Eclipse, Kleiner Perkins, Y Combinator, John Collison, Patrick Collison, Daniel Gross, and others [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/bot-company) [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/bot-company)
- **Growth Signals**: Rapidly scaled from founding (2024) to a team of 79–102 employees; backed by top-tier investors; multiple funding rounds within two years; hiring across ML, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and firmware roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founding Team**: Co-founders include Kyle Vogt (former CEO of Cruise) and engineers from Tesla, Cruise, OpenAI, Google, Pixar, and other top tech companies [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/bot-company)
- **Strong Capital Backing**: Over $300M raised from a syndicate of elite VC firms, giving the company a long runway to develop complex hardware/software.
- **AI & Robotics Expertise**: Focus on whole-body control, world models, and data infrastructure – areas where the team has deep prior experience shipping products to hundreds of millions of users.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current Priorities**: Developing a general-purpose home robot with advanced AI capabilities (world models, whole-body control, 3D vision); building the data infrastructure and firmware necessary for reliable real-world operation.
- **Direction for Growth**: Moving from stealth to a publicly announced product; scaling the engineering team and beginning pilot deployments.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Small, mission-driven team of engineers, designers, and operators based in San Francisco. Emphasis on building “amazing products and experiences” from scratch.
- **Work Policy**: In‑office (San Francisco, CA) with some remote roles available. Most roles are on-site at 552 Brannan Street [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/bot-company)
- **Notable Perks**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge robotics and AI at a well-funded startup; direct impact on a product that could redefine household automation; access to top-tier investors and mentors.

## Sources
1. [ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thebotcompany) – Careers page and job listings
2. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/bot-company) – Company overview, funding, investors, patents
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/bot-company) – Culture, perks, team background, office policy
4. [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/597464-92) – Valuation, funding rounds, ownership status
5. [dealroom.co](https://dealroom.co/companies/the-bot-company/) – Valuation, headcount, founder equity breakdown

## Other roles at The Bot Company

- [Machine Learning: Whole-Body Control](https://feeny.ai/job/machine-learning-whole-body-control-the-bot-company-san-francisco-2jyfd4cb4n47) — San Francisco, CA
- [Machine Learning: Multimodal Foundation Models](https://feeny.ai/job/machine-learning-multimodal-foundation-models-the-bot-company-san-francisco-9xmg35sd3bg9) — San Francisco, CA
- [Machine Learning: World Models](https://feeny.ai/job/machine-learning-world-models-the-bot-company-san-francisco-yxfbc0zp4b59) — San Francisco, CA
- [Something Else](https://feeny.ai/job/something-else-the-bot-company-san-francisco-stva5270r5k5) — San Francisco, CA
- [Mechanical](https://feeny.ai/job/mechanical-the-bot-company-san-francisco-bt4y3c7khhed) — San Francisco, CA
- [ML Infra - Data Infrastructure](https://feeny.ai/job/ml-infra-data-infrastructure-the-bot-company-san-francisco-7p2s8bn5xyt2) — San Francisco, CA