Senior Software Engineer, Standard Bots
AI Team
$180-210k
Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
3 days a week in office (Grand Central Station, NY)
AI-powered robots
Be an early applicant
AI-powered robots
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-210k
Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
3 days a week in office (Grand Central Station, NY)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To propel human productivity through the world’s most accessible robots.
Role
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
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
In recent years, the field of robotics has brought to life ideas that once belonged to the world of sci-fi. But, robots are still extremely complex to program, making the automations they facilitate out of reach for many businesses.
Standard Bots is setting out to change this, with AI-powered robots and a complementary robotics platform that means they can be programmed through simple demonstrations. This approach should broaden the accessibility of robots to businesses of all sizes, enabling them to employ automations that can give them a competitive edge.
It's an intriguing proposition, and investors agree, with the company raising substantial funding to support its mission. Standard Bots plans to use these funds to expand its engineering team and speed up the development of its robots. The company will, however, likely need to contend with competition from inexpensive robots from China as it develops into the future.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2026
$200m
SERIES C
Jul 2024
$63m
SERIES B
Total funding: $287m
Company benefits
- Employee stock options
- Paid time off
- Medical/dental/vision insurance
- Life insurance & disability insurance
- 401(k)
Company HQ
Glen Cove, NY
Leadership
Evan Beard
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Co-Founder and CEO at A Plus. Also co-founded Gridtech and Etacts, and was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff in Software Engineering at Salesforce.
David Golden
(Co-Founder)Co-founder and Chairman at Miralinc Pharma, and Co-founder at Bowery Farming. Previously co-founded and was CEO at LeapPay, and has also worked in Investment at several businesses.
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