Foundation Robotics
Building general-purpose humanoid robots for industry and defense.
Company facts
- Founded
- 2023
- Employees
- 60
- Headquarters
- United States
- Type
- Private
- Funding
- Seed · $11M · 2025
- Subsidiaries
- Boardwalk Robotics
Open positions
Senior CNC Machinist
Why We Are Hiring for This Role: To manufacture high-precision components critical to the assembly and performance of our humanoid robots and actuators. Support the transition from prototype production to scalable…
Technical Program Manager
The Role: Shape the vision and strategy of our vehicle program, working directly with engineering leadership to define product priorities, technical roadmaps, and long-term development goals. Own end-to-end program…
Finance & Business Operations Associate
The Role You'll work directly for the SVP of Operations and Finance, who runs go-to-market, operations, and finance for the company. This is not a back-office seat. In a given week you might build the business case for…
Hardware Team Lead
Why We Are Hiring For This Role: At Foundation, we’re pushing the bounds on Humanoid technology. As we rapidly scale to meet demand, we’re looking for a Hardware lead that can build on our existing work and continue to…
Mechanical Engineer Intern
Why are We Hiring for this Role: Building dexterous hands and fingers for a humanoid is one of the hardest mechanical engineering problems in robotics — more than 20 degrees of freedom packed into the volume of a human…
Electrical Engineer Intern
Why are We Hiring for this Role: Building dexterous hands and fingers for a humanoid requires custom electronics at every level — from miniaturized motor drivers to flexible sensor arrays wrapped around fingertips —…
Planning Engineer
Who should join: You deeply believe that this is the most important mission for humanity and needs to happen yesterday. You are highly technical - regardless of the role you are in. We are building technology; you need…
Staff Mechanical Engineer (Phantom)
Our Culture: We like to be frank and honest about who we are, so that people can decide for themselves if this is a culture they resonate with. Please read more about our culture here . Who Should Join: You like…
Staff Electrical Engineer (Phantom)
Why are We Hiring for this Role: Join a small, high-impact team responsible for the electrical architecture that powers every subsystem of our humanoid robot—from compute and sensing to power distribution,…
Electrical Engineer, Tactile/Hand Sensor
Who should join: You like working in person with a team in San Francisco. You deeply believe that this is the most important mission for humanity and needs to happen yesterday. You are highly technical - regardless of…
Electrical Engineer, Driver Design & Motor Control
Why We Are Hiring We are taking on one of the hardest unsolved problems in robotics: building hands that actually work like human hands. As a Senior Electrical Engineer on our Humanoid Hands Team you will design the…
Senior Mechanical Engineer (Actuators)
Why are We Hiring for this Role: Join a small, high-impact team building the next generation of rotary actuators that will power every degree of freedom in our humanoid robots. You'll own the mechanical design of…
Staff Electrical Engineer (Actuators)
Why We are Hiring for this Role: At Foundation, we're building a world-class in-house actuator organization to define the next generation of robotic performance. This is a rare opportunity to help architect the motors,…
Technical Recruiter
Why Are We Hiring for This Role Own the full cycle. From kickoff to offer acceptance, drafting role profiles, sourcing, screening, managing the candidate experience, running debriefs, negotiating offers, and closing.…
Mechanical Design Engineer, Body Structures, Frame (Autonomous Vehicle Team)
Why We Are Hiring for This Role: Design and develop the vehicle body and structural architecture to perform across extreme multi-environment conditions—from high-impact off-road shock loads to full water submersion and…
Chief Battery Engineer/Team Lead
Why We Are Hiring for This Role At Foundation, we're developing robotics programs, where batteries are crucial for powering high-performance tasks such as enabling extended runtimes in dynamic environments. To supply…
Chief Designer
Why are We Hiring for this Role: We're hiring a Chief Designer to own and orchestrate the end-to-end design vision for our general-purpose robots, treating them as the next wave of computing devices that must be…
Principal Compute Architect
Why are We Hiring for this Role: Leading a structured evaluation of technical and business feasibility for a custom inference chip tailored to robotic workloads. Analyzing current bottlenecks in robotic inference…