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Nextera Robotics
Nextera Robotics
AI for Construction Robotics, MIT, Y-Combinator Boston
11-50
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Automation
Construction
B2B
Early Stage
Startup in initial stages
Top Investors
This company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
YC Funded Startup funded by Y Combinator
We are a fast-growing Physical AI company founded at MIT. We develop and deploy fleets of purpose-built industrial robots, building a future where AI-native robots handle all the repetitive and physically demanding work.
We're looking for a wireless engineer to advance the RF side of that mission: a low-infrastructure, long-range mesh network that keeps autonomous mobile robots connected in some of the harshest RF environments there are - active construction sites and industrial facilities full of steel, concrete, heavy machinery, and constant change. Your effort will directly shape the next generation of our network technology - from link-level behavior and propagation, up through routing, monitoring, and security - and your decisions will directly shape how the fleet scales. https://didge.ai
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and optimize long-range sub-GHz mesh networks at industrial facilities and construction sites
- Characterize and model RF propagation and coverage in cluttered, dynamic environments with mobile nodes
- Conduct wireless site surveys; define antenna placement and link budgets; guide deployment engineers and technicians
- Analyze link- and MAC-level behavior to troubleshoot and resolve field issues with minimal customer impact
- Evaluate radio platforms, spectrum options, and mesh routing approaches as the fleet grows
- Advance our network monitoring, remote administration, and network security capabilities
- Document designs, experiments, and test results
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s + 3 years of industry experience, or Master’s + 2 years, in EE/CE or a related field
- Strong grounding in RF fundamentals and wireless communications - propagation, modulation, link budgets, PHY/MAC behavior
- Hands-on experience installing, configuring, and maintaining wireless networks in the real world
- Experience conducting wireless site surveys and turning them into working deployments
- Comfortable working low in the stack and diagnosing problems from spectrum to packets
- Strong analytical skills; able to work independently and with a small team
- Willingness to travel occasionally for site surveys, deployments, and troubleshootings
Preferred but not required:
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Experience with sub-GHz or other long-range wireless protocols
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Comfort with Linux, scripting, or C/C++ for test automation and tooling
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Familiarity with network security monitoring
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Wireless networking certifications
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We are a fast-paced, highly technical organization. Teams are small and agile, autonomy is expected, and every engineer sees their work go from idea to deployed, high-value product. The wireless layer is early enough that you won't be maintaining someone else's decisions - you'll be making them.
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We'll be excited to learn more about you and welcome you to the Team!
About the company
Nextera Robotics
AI for Construction Robotics, MIT, Y-Combinator Boston
11-50
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Automation
Construction
B2B
Early Stage
Startup in initial stages
Top Investors
This company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors YC Funded Startup funded by Y Combinator
Perks
Quarterly Team Events We go bowling, go-karting, and more!
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Founders
Alex Rand CTO
Boston Lana Graf CEO • 7 years
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