Senior Product Engineer, Robotics

Responsibilities

• Build and ship core product surfaces end to end, primarily on the web and in the CLI.
• Design and implement features that make LiveKit intuitive and powerful for developers.
• Engage directly with developers and customers to understand use cases and identify rough edges.
• Move quickly from prototype to production, iterating based on real usage.
• Contribute to technical and product decisions that shape future development.

Requirements

• 6+ years of engineering experience, including meaningful experience shipping products end to end.
• Strong TypeScript skills and fluency with modern web frameworks.
• Comfort with Go is a plus.
• Track record of building user-facing software adopted by developers or other technical users.
• Experience building dashboards and interfaces for robotics applications.
• Strong product sense and ability to weigh user experience, trade-offs, and value alongside technical implementation.
• Comfort with ambiguity and ability to frame vague problems and begin shipping solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Genuine enthusiasm for physical AI, robotics, and enabling developers.

Nice to Have

• Experience building developer platforms, SDKs, CLIs, or APIs as a primary product.
• Experience operating production distributed systems at scale, including Kubernetes-based deployments, analytics, telemetry, and observability.
• Hands-on hardware or robotics experience.
• Open source contributions, especially in infrastructure or developer tools.
• Background in realtime, audio/video, or AI tooling.
• Based in or willing to spend time in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package.
• Health, dental, and vision benefits.
• Flexible vacation policy.
• Opportunity to build impactful technology and contribute to open source.