mimic is an early-stage deep tech robotics & AI start-up based in Zurich and supported by leading VCs. We give industry workers a helping hand for tedious manual labour tasks and mitigate labour shortages with a versatile automation platform. Our automation solutions, driven by dexterous robotic hands and cutting-edge AI trained on human observations, bring a new level of AI embodiment to the real world.
As a Robotics Software Engineer, you’ll engineer the low-latency, high-throughput systems that host our manipulation models. You’ll make sure our physical AI runs flawlessly in production, optimizing every layer - from networking to camera pipelines. You’ll collaborate closely with researchers, robotics/firmware engineers, and robotics operators to build a custom middleware stack that is second to none.
Responsibilities
Real-Time Pipelines Engineer low-latency, high-reliability sensor, actuator, and video streaming pipelines across Linux, drivers, and middleware, ensuring strict frame timing and packet scheduling.
System Performance Profile and optimize across compute, I/O, memory, scheduling, networking, and storage to meet real-time constraints and increase overall system throughput.
Whisper to the Kernel Extend or modify Linux components, drivers, and scheduling mechanisms to achieve deterministic behavior under heavy system load.
Develop Reliability & Debugging Tooling Create advanced tools for profiling, tracing, and debugging complex timing issues across distributed systems and hardware interfaces.
Collaborate Cross-Functionally Partner with researchers, robotics/hardware/firmware engineers, and robot operator teams to seamlessly integrate optimized production pipelines into workflows.
Requirements
Strong Proficiency in Rust, Python and/or C++, with 3+ years of real production experience of building real-time systems.
Linux systems programming experience (kernel parameters, scheduling, memory/IO subsystems, syscalls)
Systems mindset and ability to optimize the stack end-to-end: a mindset focused on determinism, throughput, scalability and hard real-time correctness.
Fluent English speaker
Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
Nice to have
Experience in camera systems (synchronization, codecs, GPU offload)
Experience in deploying highly reliable robotic systems in production
About mimic
Scalable AI models for universal robotic manipulation. Intuitively automate your most complex and tedious manual labor tasks from retail to manufacturing.
