The posting
About Standard Bots Standard Bot's mission is to significantly lower the barrier to entry to real-world automation, bringing the power of bits to the world of atoms and unlocking productivity for entire new industries and users. Our user-facing applications and APIs directly empower individuals and developers to jump directly into solving their challenges without the need for a background in robotics or automation. A relentless focus on simplicity and ease of use brings this revolutionary potential to new users and industries.
What You'll Do We're looking for a seasoned, broad software engineer to join our AI team and build the systems our models depend on. Our AI researchers push the modeling frontier; this role owns nearly everything around it — the data that goes in, the infrastructure that trains and evaluates, the perception plumbing that connects cameras to the robot, and the product surfaces that put all of it in a customer's hands.
The AI team is small, so the surface area is wide and the ownership is real. You may move between adding functionality to the data ingestion pipeline, a camera calibration bug, and a customer-facing feature in the same month — and you'll decide which of those matters most this week.
Location and Benefits This role is hybrid with 3 days/week onsite in our NYC office, centrally located near Grand Central Station. The office is fully equipped with robots for demos and testing!
Responsibilities
- Identify, scope, and drive high impact technical and user facing projects across the AI team's stack
- Ship the product surfaces that expose AI capabilities to users — the applications and APIs customers actually touch
- Mentor and advise other engineers as well as peers on technical and personal advancement
- Drive technical decision making and implementation through hands-on and technically deep work
Plus ownership of one or more of these, depending on where your experience is strongest:
- Data pipelines: the flywheel for end-to-end AI — ingestion of teleop and demonstration data, labeling and curation tooling, dataset quality metrics
- Training and evaluation infrastructure: training pipelines, experiment tracking, GPU orchestration, model versioning, and deployment out to robots
- Perception integration: camera calibration, vision pipelines, and getting model outputs into the robot runtime reliably
Tech Stack
- Front-end: React, TypeScript
- Back-end: Node.js, Python, C++
- ML: PyTorch
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- GitHub Actions
Who You Are We do not require a background in robotics. We're looking for engineers who are self driven, optimistic, creative, and resourceful. We have no requirements for a background in robotics, but find most success with engineers excited by the domain and looking to apply their expertise and experience in a new area. Our ideal candidate will be open to doing approximately 70% back-end and 30% front-end work with flexibility to sway more towards one or the other, depending on current projects and team needs. This is a generalist role first — but on the AI team, so we're looking for someone whose breadth already reaches into at least one AI-adjacent domain.
Skills You'll Bring
- Experience: You have a strong technical background, including 5-10 years of experience working in complex environments
- AI-adjacent depth (strongly preferred): You have professional experience in at least one of ML Ops, data pipelines, or computer vision — for example building training or inference infrastructure, running large-scale data ingestion and curation, or shipping a vision pipeline to production. You don't need to have trained the models yourself.
- Growth + Optimism: You are excited by new domains and challenges, and eager to pick up new context to accelerate your impact
- Clarity of Communication: You excel in written and verbal communication and enjoy leveraging your skills to support your peers
- Impact Driven: You relentlessly seek user impact and value execution over technical idealism
- Proactive Simplicity: You prioritize simplicity, reliability, and velocity and proactively identify opportunities to improve proposed implementations or incumbent systems
- Excelling in Ambitious Environments: You excel in dynamic and ambitious environments, working with a diverse group of individuals and backgrounds
Compensation and Benefits The base salary range for this role is $180,000 to $210,000, depending on experience. Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at Standard Bots. All Full-Time Employees are eligible for Employee Stock Options. We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees.
