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# Senior Automation and Controls Engineer at Intrinsic

- **Company:** Intrinsic
- **Location:** Mountain View, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-10-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://boards.greenhouse.io/intrinsicrobotics/jobs/6223613004?gh_jid=6223613004

## 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 Senior Automation and Controls Engineer, you will design, build, and deploy robotic automation systems. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and customers to determine system requirements, suggest automation layouts, and select and source hardware. You will actively program automation workcells and bring robotics solutions from initial concept through the execution of a successful delivery. Your work will involve continuous collaboration with software developers, product managers, and researchers to invent, maintain, and refine our robotic platforms.

How your work moves the mission forward

- Design and implement rapid, innovative robotic automation workcells, taking projects from hardware selection and electrical design to robot, PLC, and HMI programming.
- Collaborate with product managers, software developers, and researchers to maintain, improve, and invent our robotic platform from the ground up.
- Source and integrate best-in-class technology products into automation workcells.
- Evaluate and actively weigh decisions to build capabilities in-house versus partnering with external system integrators to build a solution.
- Concept new robotic automation applications and scope the effort, feasibility, and cost to build a solution.
- Establish hardware selection and PLC software standards by applying knowledge of industrial control systems.
- Document and communicate your work clearly for internal and external stakeholders.

## Skills you will need to be successful

- Degree in Controls / Mechatronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
- 3 years of professional experience applying robotics, PLC programming (e.g., Beckhoff, Pilz), fieldbus communication, or motion controllers to systems deployed in manufacturing facilities.
- Demonstrable experience designing automation cells with CAD and perform system simulation.
- Experience selecting components and designing electrical and pneumatic schematics for automation equipment, including the ability to assemble designed electrical panels.
- Proficient in debugging and wiring robotic industrial control systems.
- Willingness to work in ambiguity, select a direction, and drive towards a solution.

## Skills that will differentiate your candidacy

- Experience designing and implementing safety circuitry and safety logic for use in industrial automation.
- Experience working with and managing vendors, from writing RFPs or SOWs to managing their execution and taking part in system acceptance tests.
- Passion for programming in high level languages beyond low level control.
- Exposure to numerous industries that use robotic automation.
- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally.

The base salary for this full-time position is between $159,200 - $217,300 (USD) + 15% bonus + equity + benefits. Your recruiter will share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process. 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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