Robotics Software Engineer (US)

We are looking for a Robotics Software Engineer with 2, 5 years of experience to join Medra's team and build the robotic systems that will revolutionize life science research. You'll develop software that enables robots to operate scientific instruments with human-level dexterity, manipulating biology tools, avoiding collisions in dynamic lab environments, and closing the loop with computer vision. Medra is a Series D+ funded startup of ~34 engineers from Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and Amazon, building a Physical AI platform to accelerate drug discovery and ultimately eradicate disease. This is a high-ownership role where you'll shape major parts of the robotics stack at a fast-moving company with an ambitious mission.

What will you be doing?

• Develop and implement motion planning and trajectory optimization algorithms for robot arm manipulators operating in complex, dynamic lab environments

• Integrate, test, and debug software solutions across simulation and physical robots, shipping code that runs on real hardware

• Use computer vision to enable robots to work with consumables and equipment originally designed for humans

• Collaborate directly with partner scientists at customer labs to understand pain points, ideate creative solutions, and guide implementation and deployment

• Identify opportunities for simplification and design for scalability and robustness across the robotics platform