Physical Intelligence
Creating foundation models for general-purpose robot intelligence.
Company facts
- Founded
- 2024
- Employees
- 191
- Headquarters
- United States
- Type
- Private
- Funding
- Series B · $600M · 2025
Open positions
Recruiter, Hardware
A full-cycle recruiter owns hardware hiring end to end at Physical Intelligence — an AI robotics startup building general-purpose foundation models for robots — sourcing and closing mechanical, electrical, firmware, manufacturing, supply chain, and technician talent. The role is in-person in San Francisco with regular time at the company's Fremont factory, partnering directly with the hardware co-
Software Engineer, Robot Interfaces
Fullstack engineer at Physical Intelligence (San Francisco) building internal human-robot interface software — realtime tools to run, monitor, calibrate, and debug robots across lab, warehouse, and partner sites. Stack centers on React, TypeScript, Python, WebRTC/WebSockets, protobuf/gRPC, plus Postgres, GCP, and Kubernetes.
Embedded Engineer
Designs and builds embedded Linux firmware for hardware devices that collect training data for Physical Intelligence's robot foundation models — leading board bring-up, writing drivers and kernel configs, debugging hardware/software timing issues, and optimizing power on battery-operated devices. Core stack: embedded Linux, C++, SPI/I2C/UART/USB, Python/Bash tooling.
Production Test Engineer
Build and own the manufacturing software platform that turns manual assembly and test steps into automated, repeatable workflows for AI-powered robots.
Supply Chain Lead
Owns sourcing and supplier strategy for robot BOM components, builds resilient global supply chains, and partners with engineering to drive cost and manufacturability improvements for a robotics startup.
Controls Engineer
As a Controls Engineer, you will design and implement the algorithms that make PI’s robots behave predictably, smoothly, and safely under varied and uncertain conditions. The Team The Controls team builds and tunes the…