Lead Software Engineer, Robust.AI
Web Applications
$175-200k
+ Stock Options
4+ days a week in office (San Carlos, CA)
Industrial-grade cognitive engine for robotics
Open for applications
Industrial-grade cognitive engine for robotics
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$175-200k
+ Stock Options
4+ days a week in office (San Carlos, CA)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make robots work for people.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong emphasis on front-end development
- Experience building and deploying new web applications from scratch
- Deep proficiency and extensive hands-on experience with React and its core principles (hooks, context API, etc.)
- Strong understanding of JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, and modern web standards
- Experience with UI component libraries and design systems
- Experience with state management libraries (e.g., Redux, Zustand, Context API)
- Familiarity with modern frontend build pipelines and tools (e.g., Webpack, Vite, Babel, npm/yarn)
- Experience writing and maintaining frontend tests using frameworks like Jest, React Testing Library, or similar
Desirable
- Experience with server-side rendering (SSR) or static site generation (SSG) frameworks (e.g., Next.js, Remix)
- Experience with performance monitoring and optimization tools
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with implementing authentication systems
What the job involves
- As our Lead Software Engineer for Web Applications, you’ll own the user interfaces that power our robots in the real world
- You'll use modern web technologies to build applications spanning multiple critical surfaces:
- Fleet management applications – giving customers and integration engineers the ability to command, configure, and monitor entire fleets
- On-robot interfaces – touch-based UIs hosted directly on the robots, ensuring smooth interactions in the field
- Authoring tools – enabling our world-class roboticists to write and test robot behaviors
- This is a high-impact role where your technical leadership will directly impact how advanced robotic systems come to life
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain robust web applications Lead frontend architectural decisions, ensuring solutions are well-engineered, maintainable, and aligned with long-term technical strategy
- Translate requirements and designs into high-quality, production-ready code
- Own the end-to-end delivery of frontend features, from technical design to deployment and monitoring
- Collaborate effectively with backend engineers, product management, designers, and other stakeholders
- Actively participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and share knowledge
- Stay current with frontend best practices and tooling, evaluating and recommending new technologies where appropriate
Our take
Increasing complexity in supply chains and demand has meant manufacturing and logistics are incorporating more robotics and automation. These systems, however, can be cumbersome, costly, and brittle, meaning it’s difficult for them to adapt to new demand. Robust’s solution is a platform enabling rapid, no-code setup of robotic transport systems in warehouses to help transport materials and tools.
The idea is that these robots work with, not instead of, human workforces - and it’s just the first slate of applications for Robust’s deeper tech. The aim is to develop an all-purpose cognitive engine that will produce robots that can make decisions in open-ended environments.
The potential applications for a common-sense cognitive platform are sweeping, even if Robust’s beginnings are fairly modest. It’s planning to build out its own datasets and pursue strategic alliances with companies across different verticals - it’s already in conversation with iRobot for application of its AI layer in homes, for example.
With the heavy-hitting founding team of robotics veterans at the helm, Robust is making painstaking and careful progress in what is growing to be a multi-billion-dollar global robotics industry. With impressive funding under its belt, it'll be interesting to see how its tech progresses.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2023
$20m
SERIES A
Oct 2020
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $42.5m
Company HQ
San Carlos, CA
Leadership
Anthony Jules
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked as Principal at robotics company Jules Studios, before serving as COO and VP of Product at Redwood Robotics, and then Head of Product & Program Management at X, the moonshot factory. Ultimately spent time as CTO/Advisor for Formant.
Rodney Brooks
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously co-founded Lucid, iRobot (sold to Uber), and Rethink Robotics, and for the latter two also served as CTO. Additionally spent nearly three decades as the Panasonic Professor of Robotics at MIT.
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