Robotics Engineer, Chef Robotics
All Levels
$130-225k
+ Equity
Autonomous cooking robot developer
Open for applications
Autonomous cooking robot developer
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$130-225k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the advent of intelligent machines in the world to empower humans to do what humans do best.
Role
Who you are
- BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, robotics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering or related field
- 3+ years experience developing and testing robust robot manipulation solutions deployed on real robots after completion of an academic degree program
- Experience leading and shipping complex software projects
- Experience leading projects and people in a tech lead or similar role
- 5+ years experience in Python and/or C++
- Understanding of both classical and machine/reinforcement learning approaches to robot manipulation, and the tradeoffs between various techniques
- Experience with robotic waypoint generation, path planning, and trajectory smoothing
- Experience with common deep learning frameworks like Tensorflow or Pytorch
- Excellent software engineering fundamentals
- Excellent mathematical skills, especially with geometry, probability and statistics, linear algebra, and machine learning
Desirable
- Startup experience
- You’ve shipped working products under tight deadlines
- Robotics research experience, including publications
- Experience with trajectory optimization
- Experience with the robotics tech stack, e.g. Linux, ROS, OpenCV, CUDA
- Experience with calibration, state estimation, sensor fusion
- Experience with basic mechatronics and electronics
What the job involves
- Chef is looking for a Robotics Engineer to help us scale our fleet of robots
- You will be making a large impact on a small team, developing a novel and scalable robot manipulation system that allows our robots to reliably serve millions of meals in production environments
- Develop classical or ML/RL-based motion planning and manipulation algorithms that work across thousands of different foods with varying physical properties (stickiness, density, viscosity, etc.)
- Develop novel algorithms to learn ingredient properties on-the-fly and intelligently adapt manipulation parameters
- Incorporate new sensor data (e.g. force control, cameras) as needed for trajectory optimization and metrics to measure ingredient manipulation performance
- Analyze manipulation performance across ingredients and optimize trajectories for throughput
- Contribute to overall software architecture design and standards, including designing interfaces between subsystems
- Champion engineering excellence, ensuring high-quality, well-structured, and well-tested code
- Stay up-to-date with the latest robotics research and apply insights in a practical way to our system
Our take
In recent years, kitchen automation has surged, yet challenges persist in addressing the nuanced complexities of food preparation and assembly.
Chef Robotics tackles this by prioritizing food assembly over cooking, acknowledging the diverse factors that shape culinary outcomes. With its advanced robotics and AI-driven software, ChefOS, the company navigates the intricacies of ingredient preparation, cooking methods, and storage conditions, ensuring consistent quality across diverse recipes and ingredients.
Chef's recent funding round underscores investor confidence in its innovative approach. With a focus on robotics-as-a-service (RaaS), Chef aims to democratize access to advanced automation, offering scalable solutions for food businesses. As it expands across the US and Canada, securing partnerships with Fortune 500 food companies, Chef heralds a future where technology enhances culinary excellence, revolutionizing efficiency and creativity in the kitchen.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
54% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2024
$10.5m
EARLY VC
May 2021
$7.7m
SEED
Total funding: $25.3m
Company values
- Customer and User Obsession: We’re here to serve our customers and users. Go backwards from the customers and obsess after giving them the best experience possible
- Deliver results and follow through: Results matter, not "effort." Done is better than perfect. Finish what you start. A documented mistake of an idea that didn't work is positive. Constantly release, test, and deploy little bytes instead of waiting for one large deployment
- Move with extreme velocity and focus: Velocity matters. We’re serving customers where a little downtime can cost millions. Ship fast and be laser focused on what matters. Work smart and hard
- Meritocracy to find the truth: The best idea wins not your seniority. Use logic to support your thinking. Always discuss the idea not attack the speaker. When a decision is made, disagree and commit wholly
- Radical transparency: No passive aggression. If someone isn’t doing something right, tell them. Be brutally honest with feedback and don’t sugar coat anything. Trust in your team
- Hire the very best people: If enough smart people are in a room together, we'll figure it out. Hire slow rather than to "fill a role."
- Simplicity and Frugality: Have just enough and no more. Constantly simplify. Always ask: "how could I accomplish what I'm trying to with 10x less money?
- Play for the name on the front of the jersey: "Play for the name on the front of the jersey...people will start remembering the name on the back." We all have individualistic desires but by working for the good of the company in the short term, you make yourself significantly better off in the long term. When in doubt of how to make a decision, ask: is this in the true, authentic best interest of Chef?
- Challenge your beliefs and aim to find truth: Assume your ideas are wrong and constantly stress test them. The default is that your idea is wrong and that you have to prove it’s right (not the other way around). Seek diverse perspectives. Always ask why, why, why? Break things down to the first principles and then build back up
- Take initiative and win: Figure out what needs to be done - without anyone telling you - and then win. We’re here to win not just for a job
Company HQ
Mid-Market, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Rajat Bhageria
(CEO)Previously the co-founder and CEO of ThirdEye Technologies. They now write for both Forbes and TechCrunch alongside being a Managing Partner at Prototype Capital.
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