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Team Lead Robotics

Robotics & Autonomous SystemsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeBengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

The candidate must have 4–8 years of experience building functional robots or physical products.
The candidate must have robotics hardware depth and AI skills, including training learned policies or controllers that run on real hardware rather than only classical control or simulation.
The candidate must be comfortable being the first person on a team and setting things up from scratch.
The candidate must have led engineers or projects, formally or informally.
The candidate must be comfortable with frequent hardware failures.

Responsibilities

Lead the Physical AI team end to end by setting technical direction, making build-versus-buy decisions, and owning the roadmap from first prototype to shipped product.
Architect the complete robot, integrating mechanical systems, actuators, electronics, and software.
Build robot intelligence by training and deploying learned controllers and policies using reinforcement learning and imitation learning, closing the sim-to-real gap, and applying modern AI models for perception and control.
Remain hands-on by writing code, training models, debugging boards, and resolving hardware and policy failures.
Hire and grow the founding team of engineers and interns, and establish team build standards.
Take end-to-end ownership of the team's products and fix robot failures.

Desired Qualifications

Mechanical Engineering.
Electronics.
Artificial Intelligence.

Team Lead - Robotics

Weekday AI · Bengaluru, India · Full-time · Posted 2026-09-09

Workplace: on_site

Department: Weekday's Client via platform

Description

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients

Min Experience: 4+ years
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
JobType: full-time

We are now setting up a new team for Physical AI. This team will be focussed on building and shipping end to end products. These products may include legged robots, humanoids and other kinds of intelligent machines. We plans to build everything in-house: the mechanical design, the actuators, the electronics, and the software/models that control them. You will be the founding lead of this team.

Requirements

What you will work on

Lead the Physical AI team end to end: set the technical direction, make the build-vs-buy calls, and own the roadmap from first prototype to shipped product.
Architect the full robot: how the mechanical systems, actuators, electronics, and software come together into one working machine.
Build the intelligence of the robot. Train and deploy learned controllers and policies (RL, imitation learning), close the sim-to-real gap, and use modern AI models for perception and control.
Stay hands-on. You will write code, train models, debug boards, and be at the bench when a leg cracks or a policy fails on real hardware.
Hire and grow the founding team of engineers and interns, and set the bar for how the team builds.
Own what you and your team build. When the robot fails mid-step, you fix it end to end.

Who this is for

You have 4-8 years of experience building real robots or physical products that actually worked.
You combine robotics hardware depth with strong AI skills. You have trained policies or learned controllers that ran on real hardware, not just classical control or just simulation.
You are an extremely hands-on self starter, comfortable being the first person on the team and setting things up from scratch.
You have led engineers or projects before, formally or informally, and people want to work with you.
You are okay with things failing often, because in hardware they do.
We do not care much about GPA, publications, or where you interned. We care about what you have built and how you think about it.

Must-have skills

Robotics

Good-to-have skills

Mechanical Engineering, Electronics, Artificial Intelligence

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About the Company

Weekday AI

Proactive software engineer recruitment via referrals

Weekday.works helps companies hire software engineers through proactive outreach and peer-recommended candidates. Its platform automates tracking, pipeline management, and provides weekly updates, while it actively identifies engineers via peer networks, reaches out, shortlists, checks references, and schedules interviews. Differentiators include peer-backed vetting instead of traditional job boards, proactive outreach, and a passive-income reference feature that monetizes referrals. The goal is to reduce the time and effort of hiring by connecting companies with pre-vetted engineers who are open to new opportunities through a network-driven approach.

Company size: 201-500
Company stage: Seed
Total funding: $2.3M
Headquarters: Bengaluru, India
Founded: 2021

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