T-Mobile US is hiring for an engineer to assist with its physical AI expansion, as the operator revealed its hand in humanoid robot development.

Posted on Monday, the position calls for a senior engineer in support of T-Mobile US' commercial AI programs, including Kinetic Edge AI, the firm’s emerging edge-AI infrastructure platform. This would include working on its broader physical AI program, in reference to all things robotic or embodied AI, as it’s alternatively known.

The role also covers AI applications T-Mobile US sells to business customers. Here, the operator’s commercial AI efforts are so far defined by a purely software AI communications platform developed by Dialpad. There’s also its Advanced Network Solutions (ANS) portfolio, consisting of computer vision, predictive maintenance, asset tracking, and connected industrial equipment, as opposed to AI applications sold on license.

T-Mobile US' ideal candidate will write and ship production code for device integrations, sensor, and vision data pipelines, modeling applications such as AI inference services on its edge platform. This will include integrating devices such as drones, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), and autonomous vehicles.

Such work will also extends to network radio access networking (RAN) and core engineering on connectivity, network slicing, and edge compute capacity.

T-Mobile shows off its toys

T-Mobile US’ hiring ambitions come after an update this week on its physical AI push. CTO John Saw revealed the operator’s work with robotics firm Figure AI on running humanoids at the network edge. According to Saw, its work with Figure progressed from providing eSIM connectivity, through supporting the robots' training loop, to evaluating whether portions of Figure's Helix S1 and S2 models can run at the network edge.

Elsewhere, the firm has developed what it called an AI supervision layer to help with fleet management of sidewalk delivery robots from Serve Robotics.

Saw also disclosed further details on 6G testing with Ericsson and MediaTek 6G equipment around the carrier's headquarters in Bellevue, Washington. According to Saw, the trio's work is "pushing the boundaries of wireless performance using [400-megahertz spectrum] channels in the 7 GHz spectrum band,” demonstrating download speeds of more than 5 Gb/s, upload speeds of more than 2 Gb/s, and ping latency around the four-millisecond mark.

“All of this comes together in what we are building: a network that connects, scales, and orchestrates in the real world,” Saw wrote. “As physical AI evolves from individual machines into fleets navigating complex environments, it’s our job to enable networks, devices, and computing resources to work together, bringing the right data, context, and intelligence to the right place at the right time.”