UP.Labs
UP.Labs is a venture studio within the UP.Partners ecosystem that co-creates startups with large enterprises, especially in transportation, mobility, and applied AI. It identifies corporate pain points, validates concepts, and builds software and hardware MVPs that are spun out as independent companies, often alongside strategic partners. The privately held firm is headquartered in Santa Monica, California and pairs venture-building teams with engineers to deliver operationally grounded products.
Open Positions at UP.Labs
5 open positions
Vantora is seeking a founding Venture CTO to define, build, and launch a retrofit autonomy platform for heavy industrial equipment. This founder-level player-coach will lead the technical direction from early machine experiments through supervised customer-site deployments and build the core engineering team.
Lead end-to-end AI deployments for hospitality clients, integrating hotel systems and building agentic workflows that revenue teams trust and adopt. This senior, customer-embedded role combines hands-on engineering with deep hotel revenue management expertise and eventual responsibility for building the forward deployed engineering team.
Lead the design and delivery of applied AI agent workflows and machine learning solutions, with a focus on NLP and enterprise use cases. The role combines Python-based experimentation, generative AI application development, model evaluation, and Databricks-based deployment.
Staff Engineer on a founding team building new software ventures from zero to validated products across multiple industrial-manufacturing-focused businesses. This hands-on role owns full-stack implementation, product direction, and technical decisions in highly ambiguous environments.
UP.Labs is seeking a senior fullstack engineer to turn ambiguous early-stage product concepts into polished, end-to-end software. You’ll build frontend experiences, backend services, APIs, data models, integrations, and cloud-deployed applications across new ventures and MVPs.