Frontend Software Engineer, Robust.AI
+ Stock options
4 days a week in office (San Carlos, CA)
Industrial-grade cognitive engine for robotics
Posted today
Industrial-grade cognitive engine for robotics
21-100 employees
Posted today
+ 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
- This role requires a pragmatic engineer who can navigate the unique trade-offs of each interface while balancing usability, performance, and scalability
- You are someone who thrives in an early-stage startup environment, enjoys collaborating across teams, and can adapt quickly to evolving technical challenges
- 2+ years of industry web development experience
- 2+ years of experience working in javascript/typescript
- Experience with modern web development frameworks (such as Vue or React) and best practices
- Familiarity with cloud application deployment (such as AWS or GCP)
- Technical Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Desired experience (one or more):
- Behavior trees in any format (Robotics, Game Development, etc)
- Transport layers for robots and computer systems like ROS, GRPC, NATS
- Python
- SQL
- Writing debugging tooling
What the job involves
- As a Frontend Software Engineer at Robust AI, you will play a key role in developing and refining our robot fleet management and behavior authoring tools
- This is a dynamic position that will involve working across multiple surfaces that internal and external users interact with, including:
- The web-based on-robot UI
- The authoring environment for our visual programming language, enabling behavior tree-based robot behaviors
- Customer-facing tools for managing robot fleets
- Develop web-technology-based interfaces for interacting with our robots at the individual and fleet levels
- Add any APIs you need to our back-end services to fetch the data you need
- Turn product requirements into usable interfaces
- Collaborate with UX/Leadership to create a roadmap for future features
- Communicate with internal teams about that roadmap and upcoming changes
- Refine our release and testing processes
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. It will be interesting to see how its tech progresses.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2023
$20m
SERIES A
Oct 2020
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $42.5m
Company benefits
- Generous benefits, stock options and huge potential for growth
- Strong startup (and fun) culture
- Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
- Flexible vacation and sick leave practices
- Paid parental leave
- Optional bi-monthly COVID-19 testing
Company HQ
Ventura, Palo Alto, CA
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Leadership
Anthony Jules
(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
(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.
Mohamed Amer
(Chief Science Officer)Completed a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oregon State University, before spending time at SRI International as a Senior Computer Scientist and then Senior Technical Manager.
Henrik Christensen
(Co-founder)Holds the Qualcomm Chancellor's Chair in Robot Systems at UC San Diego, as well as directing the Contextual Robotics Institute; also is a Distinguished Professor at the Jacobs School of Engineering. Spent a decade as co- Editor in Chief covering robotics at Now Publishers, and also co-founded ROBO Global.
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