Senior Product Engineer, Robotics

LiveKit

$135K — $160K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of engineering experience with end-to-end product delivery
  • Strong coding skills in TypeScript; familiarity with modern web frameworks
  • Proven track record of creating user-facing software adopted by developers
  • Experience in building dashboards and interfaces for robotics applications
  • Strong product sense and user experience focus
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and conceptualize vague problems
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship core product surfaces end to end on the web and in the CLI
  • Design and implement features that enhance developer experience
  • Engage with developers and customers to refine product usability
  • Iterate from prototype to production using real user feedback
  • Contribute to product and technical decisions influencing future developments

Benefits

  • Opportunity to build impactful technology
  • Contribute to open source alongside leading engineers
  • Health, dental, and vision benefits
  • Flexible vacation policy
Full Job Description
About This Role

We're hiring Product Engineers to build the surfaces developers use to ship robotics applications on LiveKit. Most of this work lives on the web and in our CLI: the dashboards, tooling, observability, and debug surfaces that turn LiveKit from a set of APIs into a platform people love to build on.

This is a core engineering role. You'll write a lot of production code in TypeScript and Go, work end to end across the stack, and ship features that real developers depend on. We expect strong technical chops and a high bar for craft.

What sets a Product Engineer apart at LiveKit is product instinct. You think about the shape of the experience, not just the correctness of the code. The things you ship are built from deep knowledge of actual customer use-cases, and you continuously measure, seek feedback, and iterate to maximize your impact.

This role is based in our SF HQ, where you'll be part of a collaborative in-office culture!

You'll Thrive at LiveKit if You
  • are genuinely excited about physical AI and want to build the infrastructure that makes them possible
  • love building for developers and have strong opinions about what good DX looks like
  • write code that's fast, reliable, and right-sized to the problem
  • own what you ship you feel it when something you built isn't working for users
  • move fast without losing rigor on the details that matter
  • can explain complex technical concepts clearly to other engineers
  • pick up new languages, tools, and domains quickly


What You'll Do
  • Build and ship core product surfaces end to end, primarily on the web and in our CLI
  • Design and implement features that make LiveKit feel obvious and powerful to the developers using it
  • Engage directly with developers and customers to understand how they're building with LiveKit and where the rough edges are
  • Move quickly from prototype to production, iterating on real usage rather than guesses
  • Contribute to technical and product decisions that shape what we build next


Who You Are
  • 6+ years of engineering experience, with meaningful time spent shipping product end-to-end
  • Strong coding skills in TypeScript, with fluency in modern web frameworks. Comfort with Go is a plus.
  • A track record of building user-facing software that developers or technical users actually adopted.
  • Experience working on dashboards & interfaces for robotics applications.
  • Strong product sense: you weigh user experience, trade-offs, and value alongside technical implementation
  • Comfort with ambiguity. You can take a vague problem, frame it, and start shipping.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication
  • Genuine excitement about physical AI, robotics, and helping developers enable


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


Our Commitment to You
  • An opportunity to build something truly impactful to the world
  • Contribute to open source alongside world-class engineers
  • Competitive salary and equity package
  • Health, dental, and vision benefits
  • Flexible vacation policy

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