Founding Robotics Software Engineer (New York)

Founding Robotics Software Engineer

Location : Manhattan, New York, New York

Salary Range : $150,000 - $250,000 + Equity

Working Arrangement : Full Time - On-Site

Cubiq is currently representing an award-winning early-stage Y Combinator-backed start-up in their pursuit to find a founding Robotics Software engineer, to enable the deployment and growth of their Natural Language Robotics Interface.

This company is still very small, headed up by 2 ex-Google AI engineers, who were instrumental in the development of Claude. They're looking to add a Software engineer who can implement their AI algorithms into any and all types of robots to be easily controlled by anyone.

The role will see the successful candidate becoming a key part of these plans and the company as a whole as they continue to grow. You will be building the core infrastructure and services for the system, Designing APIs and interfaces between the AI models, hardware, and human operators. Working across the stack from Robot-facing services to real-time agent orchestration.

This is an on-site position in central New York, and is offering a salary between $140,000 -$220,000 and can stretch for the right candidate. There is full healthcare coverage and a 401K match. But the equity on offer is the real benefit to this role.

The right candidate will need the following experience :

• Previous experience working with an Embodied AI system
• 2+ years of Software experience working with an LLM, RAG, or VLM
• Strong Python experience
• Experience at a scaling real-time system, data pipelines or working on integrating AI / ML models
• High Agency and good communication skills

If you have the experience mentioned above, apply immediately! Interviews are already happening!