Physical Systems
Engineers, technicians, and operators working on hardware design, robotics, embedded systems, manufacturing, and safety-critical physical systems. Covers chip/silicon design, mechanical and electrical engineering, firmware/embedded software, robotics operations, systems safety, physical manufacturing, and datacenter hardware installation and cabling.
Roles
The canonical roles within Physical Systems.
Hardware & Electrical Engineer
Engineers designing and building electronic hardware, electrical systems, power systems, and signal chains. Covers circuit design, PCB layout, power delivery, RF/antenna design, and signal integrity.
Chip & Silicon Engineer
Engineers working on integrated circuit and system-on-chip design, including RTL design, physical design, silicon verification, ASIC/FPGA development, SoC architecture, and advanced packaging.
Technician & Skilled Trades
Operators, technicians, and skilled tradespeople who work hands-on with robots, hardware, manufacturing equipment, and physical systems. Covers robot operation, field service, assembly, testing, maintenance, welding, painting, machining, electrical trades, and other hands-on manufacturing and field roles.
Datacenter Field Technician
Technicians who install, cable, commission, and maintain hardware in data center environments. Covers structured cabling, hardware rack-and-stack, field deployment, and physical network infrastructure.
Embedded & Firmware Engineer
Engineers writing software that runs directly on hardware — firmware, embedded systems, RTOS, device drivers, microcontroller programming, and board support packages.
Systems Engineer (Hardware)
Engineers working on system-level integration, architecture, requirements, and verification for physical products — spanning hardware, software, and mechanical subsystems. Ensures complex physical systems (vehicles, robots, satellites, defense systems) work together as a whole.
Manufacturing & Production Engineer
Engineers focused on manufacturing processes, production engineering, NPI (new product introduction), assembly, and quality for physical products.
Systems Safety Engineer
Engineers ensuring the safety of physical systems through functional safety analysis, hazard assessment, system safety engineering, and verification & validation of safety-critical systems.
Robotics Engineer
Engineers building physical robotic systems — manipulation, locomotion, motion planning, controls, perception for physical interaction, and autonomous navigation. Covers the full robotics stack from hardware integration through control software. Distinguished from Simulation Engineer (research_science) which builds virtual environments for training AI.
Recent Jobs
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