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Staff Software Engineer

Standard Bots· Software
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Hybrid (New York City, NY)$215k - $250kFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer to own AI agent surfaces that program industrial robots through conversation and the vertical applications built around it. Focus on turning an LLM-powered demo into a production-ready product across multiple verticals (e.g., palletizing, welding, machine tending) with a founding-team context.

Responsibilities

  • Define the Future: Own the long-term product and technical vision for the AI agent and vertical applications, including scale, security, and product needs for LLM-powered robot programming.
  • Design the Experience: Shape how programming a robot through conversation should feel, including interactions, defaults, and guardrails.
  • Decouple and Scale: Create stable interfaces between the agent and robot platform APIs so agent capabilities grow with the platform.
  • Standard Setter: Establish engineering standards for latency, token budgets, and release evaluation gates.
  • Product Ownership: Operate as part-PM, engage with customers/operators, own roadmap and outcomes.
  • Build the Verticals: Ship vertical applications with the agent for palletizing, welding, and machine tending.
  • Drive the Program: Lead the agent’s path from demo to release across teams, turning fast asks into testable requirements.
  • Hands-on Delivery: Own production hardening of the TypeScript/Node stack, including reliability, key management, offline modes, and release QA.
  • Systemic Quality: Build evaluation discipline with datasets, CI gates, and model-graded scoring.
  • Technical Multiplier: Mentor engineers and contribute to team quality.
  • Influence & Accountability: Establish trusted metrics for agent quality across leadership, product, and customers.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including hands-on AI work (shipping an LLM-powered product, building model evaluation systems, or production AI/ML data work).
  • Fluency in agent loops, tool calling, prompt/context management, structured output, model selection and fallbacks, and token/latency economics.
  • Experience building eval datasets, harnesses, or regression gates for nondeterministic systems.
  • Product thinking with direct user engagement and impact on operational/domain-heavy users (manufacturing, logistics, field operations) a plus.
  • Design sensibility with prototype-driven UX and collaboration with design.
  • Ability to operate in ambitious, fast-changing environments.
  • Fluency in TypeScript/Node.js; experience with React, Python, C++, Kubernetes considered a plus.

Skills

Required:LLM Product EngineeringEvaluation & QualityProduct Thinking
Nice to have:Design & UX

Benefits

  • Direct Access to Robotics: Hands-on validation with real robots.
  • Collaborative & Modern Space: Open spaces and focus zones.
  • Customizable Workstations.
  • Amenities: Daily catered lunch, stocked kitchens, snacks, beverages, and team events.
  • Employee Stock Options for full-time employees.
  • Paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k).
Last updated Jul 29, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Standard Bots

The all-in-one, most intuitive, most affordable industrial cobots.

Standard Bots is a company that designs and manufactures industrial collaborative robots (cobots), providing affordable, intuitive, AI-native robotic solutions for automation across various industries.

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