Expert Firmware Engineer, Sanctuary AI
Human-like intelligence robotics
Open for applications
Human-like intelligence robotics
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots at a time that is right to make it happen.
Role
Who you are
- We're looking for the best candidates who possess exceptional software development skills and a wealth of hands-on experience in embedded system design and development
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent industry experience
- 8+ years of firmware development experience
- Knowledge of professional engineering practices spanning the entire product life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source management, agile processes, testing, and operations
- Demonstrated ability to design, implement, and rigorously test within a fast-paced environment
- Have successfully navigated the full life cycle of building and sustaining high-performance embedded systems
- Proficiency in using C/C++ for embedded systems
- Practical experience with real-time distributed systems and mastery of hard real-time constraints
- Familiarity with Linux and embedded Linux development
- Proven experience working with industrial communication protocols, such as EtherCAT or CAN
- Relevant expertise in designing system architecture, encompassing comprehensive technical knowledge in sensors, precision motion control, and robotics
- Adeptness with firmware tools, including logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and JTAG debuggers
- Familiarity with FPGA development and hardware description languages
- Knowledge of ROS/ROS2 or other robotic applications
- Above all, maintain an unwaveringly positive attitude and a commitment to devising robust solutions for intricate problems
- Possess exceptional listening skills and adeptness in conflict resolution, fostering optimism throughout interactions
- Exhibit the ability to influence others without formal authority, driving collaboration and innovation
- Approach new challenges with unyielding determination and a constructive mindset
- Embrace patience, persistence, and meticulous attention to detail when resolving performance issues
- Share our fervor for advancing machine intelligence to a human-like level
What the job involves
- Sanctuary, a world leader in building AI-based control systems for humanoid robots, is looking to hire a skilled and motivated Expert Firmware Engineer to join our Hardware team
- Reporting to the Embedded Systems Lead, you'll dive deep into our design, architecture, and implementation of real-time distributed systems that empower our general-purpose robots
- As an Expert Firmware Engineer, you'll be a pivotal contributor, adapting to new, intricate development environments and owning solutions from inception through deployment
- Additionally, you’ll support and pioneer best practices that fuel continuous enhancements in our robotic systems
- Apply extensive hands-on expertise in designing, deploying, documenting, and maintaining embedded systems
- Elevate your career experience by spearheading the development of real-time distributed systems that drive our robotics systems
- Broaden your engineering acumen by gaining a profound understanding of the embedded systems integral to general-purpose robots
- Collaborate closely with the electrical and controls teams to construct and deploy general-purpose robots
- Showcase your leadership and mentorship skills by effectively documenting, communicating, and collaborating on enhancing system components
Our take
Sanctuary has set itself the ambitious task of developing human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots, intending to complement the human labor market - and eventually helping humans settle in outer space. Its robots are modelled on the size and shape of humans, and their cognitive architecture is based on the subsystems of the human brain. The hope is that this puts the so-far elusive artificial general intelligence (AGI) in closer reach.
It’s a challenging mission, but the Sanctuary team have remarkable expertise and experience. Before Sanctuary, the founders launched deep tech robotics company Kindred with backing from the likes of Google and Bloomberg Beta. Whilst it was eventually bought out by Ocado, Sanctuary was designed to pick up where Kindred’s early research left off.
Some critics suggest that Sanctuary’s technology isn’t anything new - just yet. Nor has any company promising AGI (including Tesla) offered up material results. There’s also some question as to whether AGI, technologically glamorous though it may be, is better than highly specialised systems. If it can be done, however, there’s no doubt it’ll prove a remarkable deep-tech breakthrough.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
Insights
81% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Dec 2022
$30m
GRANT
Mar 2022
$58.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $88.5m
Company values
- We are Mission-Drive: With one objective: to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots. Mission success is the only arrow on the compass that guides our work. To be first, we must act with unwavering urgency, in everything we do
- We Rise to the Challenge: What we are doing has never been done before. We embrace the magnitude of our mission and face it head-on, with tenacity, speed, and positive determination. We do whatever it takes to ensure we hit our milestones on the road to mission success
- We Row Together, We Win Together: No matter how great our facilities or capital, we will always maintain the humble mentality of a small, wooden rowboat. Our strength comes from forcefully rowing together towards the same common goal, with each one of us pulling their weight. We stay steady on the course as a team–impervious to distractions and relentless against waves–to reach our destination
- We Act Responsibly: In everything that we do, we take matters of safety, security, confidentiality, privacy, and trust very seriously
- We are a Sanctuary: For our employees and for the future. We are a group of technologically-aligned people, working together with high principles and utmost confidentiality within our Sanctuary. When we successfully achieve our mission, we will provide a Sanctuary for generations to come, with solutions to many of the greatest threats to our way of life
Company HQ
Mount Pleasant, Vancouver, BC
Articles
Leadership
Geordie Rose
(CEO)A Doctor of Theoretical Physics, who subsequently founded and served as CTO of quantum computing systems and software company D-Wave Systems, before moving on to co-found Kindred.ai.
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