Proception Inc

High-Density Power Electronics, Motor Control, and Sensor Integration At Proception, we are building some of the most dexterous humanoid robotic hands in the world: 20+ actuators, dense sensing, real-time control, and power electronics packed into a compact robotic forearm. This role is for an electrical engineer who enjoys building hardware that lives at the edge of what is physically possible. You will design the embedded electronics behind our robotic hands, including motor control, power delivery, sensor integration, board bring-up, and real-time communication. Your work will directly affect the dexterity, responsiveness, reliability, and manufacturability of our robotic platforms. The Team We are a robotics team building the hardware foundation for general-purpose manipulation. We started Proception because we believe humanoid hands are one of the biggest bottlenecks to capable real-world robots. Better robot intelligence needs better hands, better sensors, better actuation, and better embedded systems. That is what we are building. What You Will Own First 30 Days You will: Understand our robotic hand architecture, actuator stack, sensing stack, and embedded electronics roadmap Support bring-up and debugging of existing motor control, power, and sensor boards Review current PCB designs for thermal, EMI, signal integrity, power distribution, and manufacturability risks Characterize actuator power draw, current sensing, encoder feedback, and sensor noise under real robot operation Work closely with mechanical and controls teams to understand packaging and performance constraints First 60 Days You will: Design or revise high-density mixed-signal PCBs for compact robotic forearms and hands Improve power distribution, protection, monitoring, and thermal performance across actuator-dense systems Integrate tactile sensors, force sensors, IMUs, encoders, and other feedback devices into the embedded stack Develop or support firmware for motor drivers, sensor interfaces, diagnostics, and real-time communication Help define architecture tradeoffs between centralized control, distributed control, and sensor aggregation First 90 Days You will: Own a major electrical subsystem for the next-generation Proception hand or forearm Bring up and validate boards on real robotic hardware Improve robustness of actuator, sensor, and power systems under continuous operation Build test procedures for manufacturing, validation, and field diagnostics Contribute to the long-term embedded electronics architecture for high-DOF humanoid manipulation Must-Haves Demonstrated ability to design, assemble, and debug high-density mixed-signal PCBs involving power, sensing, and control Strong understanding of BLDC, servo, or actuator control systems, including current sensing, position feedback, and motor driver integration Experience with power electronics, including switching regulators, gate drivers, protection circuits, current measurement, and thermal management Hands-on experience integrating sensors such as encoders, IMUs, force sensors, tactile sensors, strain gauges, or analog front ends Strong embedded firmware skills in C/C++ for real-time or RTOS-based systems Experience with embedded communication protocols such as CAN, CAN-FD, EtherCAT, SPI, I2C, UART, or RS-485 Strong hardware debugging ability using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power analyzers, thermal cameras, and bench power supplies Nice-to-Haves Experience designing electronics for robotic hands, humanoids, drones, exoskeletons, surgical robots, or compact actuator-dense systems Experience with FOC, current loops, torque control, motor calibration, or encoder alignment Familiarity with EMI/EMC mitigation, high-current PCB layout, impedance control, grounding strategy, and thermal-aware layout Experience with Altium, KiCad, OrCAD, LTspice, MATLAB, Python, or manufacturing test automation Experience designing for DFM, DFT, reliability testing, or production bring-up You Might Be

About Proception At Proception, we’re building the future of humanoid robotics — starting with the most dexterous robotic hands ever made. Our mission is to give robots human-level manipulation skills through world-class hardware and AI training data. Role Overview We’re looking for a Robotics Technician who’s passionate about building things that move. You’ll be hands-on assembling our robotic hands — putting together precision mechanical, electrical, and tendon-driven systems that form the core of our humanoid platform. Responsibilities Assemble mechanical, electrical, and cable/tendon subsystems of robotic hands Perform testing, calibration, and troubleshooting of assemblies Maintain clean, organized work areas and build documentation Work closely with mechanical and electrical engineers to refine assembly procedures Support prototype builds and small production runs Qualifications Experience with mechanical/electronic assembly or lab technician work Skilled in using hand tools, soldering equipment, and test instruments Strong attention to detail and patience working with small, delicate components Ability to read simple assembly drawings or wiring diagrams Bonus: experience with robotics, actuators, or mechatronics systems Why Join Us You’ll be part of a small, world-class team solving some of the hardest problems in robotics. We move fast, value craftsmanship, and make real things that work. If you love working with your hands and want to help bring humanoid robots to life, we’d love to meet you. 📩 To apply, send your resume and a short note about why you’re interested.

Real-Time Systems, Cameras, and Robot Runtime Infrastructure At Proception, we are building dexterous humanoid robotic hands for the next generation of manipulation models. Our hands combine high-DOF actuation, tactile sensing, visual feedback, and real-time control systems to help robots interact with the physical world with human-level dexterity. This role is for someone who likes being close to the hardware, close to Linux, and close to the robot. You will work across embedded Linux, camera bring-up, real-time sensing, IPC, device drivers, and high-rate robotics runtime systems. The Team We are working on robotics, dexterous manipulation, embedded systems, and real-world AI deployment. We started Proception because we realized that humanoid hands are one of the biggest bottlenecks to building general-purpose robots. The next generation of robot intelligence will not come from better models alone. It also needs better hands, better sensors, better data, and better real-time systems. That is what we are building. What You Will Own Instead of joining a large team to maintain legacy infrastructure, you will directly bring up and improve the systems that make our robotic hands work in the real world. First 30 Days You will: Understand our embedded Linux stack, robot runtime, sensing architecture, and hardware bring-up flow Bring up or debug camera pipelines on Jetson Orin, RK3588, or custom embedded boards Work with V4L2, Media Controller, libcamera, device tree, and kernel logs to validate sensor paths Profile latency across camera, tactile, IPC, perception, and control pipelines Contribute fixes to real-time sensing and actuation services First 60 Days You will: Improve reliability of high-rate data pipelines for cameras, tactile sensors, encoders, and control loops Optimize Linux scheduling, CPU isolation, memory locking, IO paths, and process coordination Integrate low-level drivers, kernel modules, or hardware interfaces into the robot runtime Build diagnostics for latency, dropped frames, IPC failures, sensor health, and system-level timing Help create hardware-in-the-loop test infrastructure for robot subsystems First 90 Days You will: Own the embedded Linux camera stack for a prototype robotic hand or upper-body system Reduce latency and jitter in the tactile-visual-control feedback loop Support multi-camera synchronization, hardware triggering, and calibration workflows Build robust logging, monitoring, and field diagnostics for camera and sensing subsystems Help define the architecture for Proception’s real-time robotics runtime Must-Haves Demonstrated ability to build reliable software on embedded Linux systems using C/C++ or Rust Strong Linux system programming fundamentals, including threading, IPC, scheduling, memory management, DMA, interrupts, and debugging Hands-on experience with embedded camera stacks such as V4L2, Media Controller, libcamera, MIPI CSI-2, device tree, or sensor drivers Experience bringing up hardware interfaces such as CSI-2, SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, EtherCAT, USB, or PCIe Ability to debug real hardware using tools such as gdb, perf, strace, dmesg, ftrace, logic analyzers, and oscilloscopes Experience building low-latency sensing, perception, actuation, or control pipelines Comfort working across software, firmware, electrical, mechanical, and robotics teams Nice-to-Haves Experience with PREEMPT_RT, CPU isolation, real-time Linux tuning, or deterministic userland runtime design Experience with Jetson Orin, RK3588, Yocto, Buildroot, Debian-based embedded systems, or custom carrier boards Familiarity with ROS/ROS2, DDS, ZeroMQ, shared-memory IPC, GPU acceleration, camera calibration, stereo vision, or SLAM You Might Be a Fit If You enjoy debugging problems where the answer might be in the kernel log, an oscilloscope trace, a device tree overlay, a dropped frame counter, or a scheduler trace. You like robots, but you do not need a polished robotics framework to be productive. You are comfor