# Founding Communications Engineer

**Company:** [Eden](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-companies/edenrobotics)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, US / London, England, GB
**Work mode:** On-site
**Seniority:** Entry
**Employment type:** Full Time
**Salary:** USD 65K–120K/yr
**Category:** Electrical
**Listed:** 2026-04-06

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## Job description

We are seeking a Founding Communications Engineer to own the design and delivery of a low-latency, international communications framework that enables remote teleoperators to seamlessly control our robots and collect data in real time. This is a hands-on, high-impact role where you will work closely with our multidisciplinary team to build a truly exceptional, deployment ready, robot.

**Location & Working Setup:**

You must be willing to relocate to San Francisco by March 30 and work in-person from a shared live/work environment. We call it a hacker house. It’s a focused, high-output environment built around shipping. We can help with visas if you are from the UK or EU.

**What you will own:**

-   Design and ship a global, low-latency communications stack for real-time robot teleoperation (control, video, depth, point clouds, telemetry).
-   Select and justify transports/protocols using measured latency, reliability, and operational constraints.
-   Implement resilience: congestion control, adaptive bitrate, loss recovery (FEC/retransmit), and regional failover.
-   Ensure real-world connectivity: NAT traversal, TURN/STUN, edge/relay topology.
-   Define serialization, timing, and synchronization for tight control loops and multi-sensor alignment.
-   Instrument and benchmark end-to-end performance (latency, jitter, loss, tail metrics, budgets).
-   Own security primitives: authentication, encryption, key management, secure tunnels.
-   Debug distributed production failures and deploy fixes with minimal disruption.
-   Work tightly with VR, controls, and hardware teams; maintain clear architecture and operational docs.

**What we’re looking for:**

-   Strong focus on building excellent real-time communications systems.
-   Proven experience shipping low-latency networking systems (teleop, live video, cloud gaming, or similar).
-   Deep understanding of real-time transport (UDP, QUIC, RTP/RTCP, WebRTC, congestion control).
-   Strong systems programming skills in C++.
-   Hands-on experience with low-latency media pipelines and encoders (GPU/software).
-   Experience operating global services and measuring region-to-region performance.
-   Solid security fundamentals (TLS/mTLS, auth, key management).
-   Experience with observability, load testing, and defining SLIs/SLOs.
-   Excellent incident debugging and technical documentation.

**Required:**

-   Portfolio of relevant work and projects (heavily weighted).

**Desirable:**

-   Experience with ROS2 and bridging robot sensor data to external clients.
-   Background in real-time systems or low-latency media for VR headsets or edge devices.
-   Strong interest in robotics.

We move fast. If you meet the bar and can relocate by March 30, 2026, apply now.

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