Robotics Software Engineer
A body is only as alive as the software running it. This team makes it move, sense, and respond in real time.
Your charter
Make the body alive — software that moves, senses, and responds in real time.
Where you'll focus
Control & real-time
The loops that turn intent into motion reliably, on real hardware, at low latency.
Perception & intelligence
Bring research into production: perception, behavior, and the feel of an interaction.
Platform & app
The stack from firmware to the app layer that people actually touch.
What you'll own
- Build the software that makes a body move, sense, and respond in real time.
- Own pieces of the stack from firmware to control to the app layer.
- Turn research into something that runs reliably on a real machine.
- Ship it, instrument it, harden it.
What you bring
- Strong engineering fundamentals and production software shipped.
- Comfortable across the stack, or deep in robotics or embedded.
- You care about latency, reliability, and the feel of an interaction.
- A clear communicator in English.
Bonus points
- Robotics, real-time systems, or embedded experience.
- You've shipped something people physically touched.
Benefits
- Compensation benchmarked to the best in robotics and AI, plus meaningful equity — build like an owner.
- Health coverage for you and your family.
- The hardware, compute, and tools the work demands — no penny-pinching on what matters.
- Based in Shenzhen, Shanghai, or Hong Kong — or work fully remote.
- Unusual ownership, and a front-row seat to a category being invented.
How we hire
We keep hiring short and human: a first conversation, a work session on a real problem, and time with the people you'd build alongside. We hire for taste and conviction over pedigree — if the work pulls at you, apply even if you don't tick every box.
About Somnia
Somnia builds intimacy robotics — presence you can hold, engineered end to end: the body, the intelligence, and the story we tell about her. Most of what we need doesn't exist yet, so we're inventing it. We hire for taste and conviction over pedigree, and we give people unusual ownership. (And yes — she/her. We mean it.)