VP of Engineering, Cobalt AI
$240-300k
+ Equity
Smart security & assistance robots
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Smart security & assistance robots
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$240-300k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To elevate the work that people do by training machines to do boring tasks better.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years in software engineering, 5+ in senior leadership (Director/VP)
- Track record leading engineering teams at high-growth startups
- Experience building and scaling engineering organizations at high-growth startups
- Technical fluency across cloud infrastructure, backend/frontend, and data/ML pipelines
- Experience shipping AI/ML-powered products in production
- Strong point of view on using AI tooling to increase team velocity
- Understanding of security and compliance (SOC 2, GDPR)
- Ability to attract, develop, and retain top engineering talent
What the job involves
- We’re hiring a VP of Engineering to own the how: team structure, delivery, engineering culture, and operational excellence. You’ll drive execution and growth across backend, frontend, infrastructure, AI/ML and robotics teams
- You’re equally comfortable in a production incident as you are presenting the roadmap to the executive team. You have strong convictions about using AI tooling to multiply engineering output, and you have hands-on experience running proofs of concepts and piloting tools with your teams
- Own engineering execution across all product and platform teams, ensuring on-time delivery of high-quality software
- Translate the technical vision into executable plans with clear milestones, deadlines, and delivery expectations, reporting progress and risks back to leadership
- Establish and evolve engineering processes — sprint cadences, code review standards, CI/CD pipelines, incident response — that keep the team sharp and efficient
- Drive a culture of ownership, accountability, and pragmatic quality
- Organize the team around workflows that maximize leverage from AI development tools (code generation, automated review, AI-driven testing)
- Evaluate, adopt, and set standards for emerging AI tooling across the engineering org
- Recruit, hire, and retain strong engineers across all levels and disciplines
- Build and mentor engineering managers and tech leads
- Own performance management, career development, and compensation planning
- Collaborate with Product, Design, Customer Success, and Sales Engineering to align priorities with business goals
- Represent engineering in customer conversations, especially enterprise pilots and technical due diligence
- Champion reliability, security, and observability across our hybrid cloud and edge infrastructure
- Drive AI/ML investment — computer vision, LLM-powered workflows — that differentiates Cobalt’s platform
Our take
As robotics transitions from a dream of the future to the reality of now, companies are looking to employ machines to protect their offices, warehouses, and people. Cobalt AI supplies security robots that use advanced sensor tech and computing to patrol premises and provide assistance, much like a human security guard.
Cobalt's simple, accessible robots come with an array of features, from 2-way video and audio chat, to smoke, carbon monoxide, and ozone sensors. Autonomous vehicle technology means they are able to move and dock alone, with 360-degree 4K cameras and day/night vision making them acutely aware of its surroundings.
With uses spanning reporting anomalies, badge checks, evacuation crowd control, and many more, it is no surprise that Cobalt AI has secured a range of big-name clientele. This includes DoorDash, fintech startup Ally Financial, and mobility solutions company Woven Planet.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2019
$35m
SERIES B
Apr 2018
$13m
SERIES A
Total funding: $48m
Company HQ
East Industrial, Fremont, CA
Leadership
Ken Wolff
(CEO)Former COO of the company. Previously founded AffirmX and was Managing Partner at Achievence.
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