Staff AI Research Engineer, Standard Bots
$250-300k
Offers Equity + Bonus
AI-powered robots
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AI-powered robots
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$250-300k
Offers Equity + Bonus
21-100 employees
Company mission
To propel human productivity through the world’s most accessible robots.
Role
Who you are
- We're looking for an experienced engineer ready to make a tangible impact in the AI robotics revolution
- This role requires a proven background working on ML planning within the autonomous vehicle space with experience using the latest techniques in diffusion and autoregressive models in a professional setting
- If you're excited about building the latest advancements in AI and working in the robotics space, we’d love to hear from you
- Have 7+ years of AI modeling experience, specifically within the self-driving car industry (or PhD with 3+ years of AI modeling experience in the self-driving car industry)
- Proven track record developing and deploying large-scale ML models
- Have experience using the latest techniques in diffusion and autoregressive models in a professional setting
- Are familiar with training inference and infra pipelines that go from camera input to trajectory output for self driving or robotics
- Have experience with RL (reinforcement learning)
- Have a strong understanding of modern ML architectures and training techniques
- Have experience with model debugging, optimization, and performance tuning
- Have a background in implementing ML research papers and adapting academic work
- Experience with PyTorch required
What the job involves
- We're seeking a Staff AI Research Engineer to develop and optimize our AI models and training systems
- This is an exciting opportunity to apply your deep ML expertise to cutting-edge AI/robotics applications
- You'll work closely with our engineering team to design, implement, and iterate on large-scale AI models while building efficient systems for rapid experimentation and deployment
- We have a small team of AI engineers, so we’re looking for someone who is excited to work at a startup, and work across the stack to do what is needed to get a model that achieves a customer problem
- Design and implement state of the art ML models and training pipelines:
- Apply novel machine learning techniques to wide range of robotics applications
- Develop efficient data and training strategies
- Implement model evaluation frameworks and metrics tracking
- Lead model development and iteration with focus on:
- Rapid experimentation and prototyping of new model architectures
- Performance optimization and model debugging
- Transfer learning and fine-tuning strategies
- Build robust evaluation and debugging systems to:
- Analyze model behavior and failure modes
- Implement interpretability tools and visualization frameworks
- Track and improve model metrics
- Collaborate with engineering team to optimize training infrastructure and deployment
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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