Staff Software Engineer
Standard Bots2 months ago
Base Salary
$215k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the long-term product and technical vision for the LLM-powered robot-programming agent and its vertical applications.
- Design conversational robot-programming experiences, including interactions, defaults, guardrails, structured program representations, and stable interfaces to robot platform APIs.
- Build and ship purpose-built applications for palletizing, welding, machine tending, and other operational workflows.
- Lead the agent's path from demonstration to production release across robot platform, QA, product, and AI teams.
- Own production hardening across the TypeScript/Node.js stack, including reliability, secure key management, usage controls, degraded and offline modes, and release engineering.
- Create evaluation datasets, harnesses, regression gates, and model-graded scoring systems for agent quality.
- Work directly with customers and operators to shape product priorities and own outcomes.
- Mentor engineers and raise technical, quality, and organizational standards.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Hands-on experience shipping AI to real users, such as an LLM-powered agent, copilot, AI-native workflow, model evaluation system, or production AI/ML data work.
- Fluency in agent loops, tool calling, prompt and context management, structured output, model selection, fallbacks, and token and latency economics.
- Experience building evaluation datasets, harnesses, or regression gates for nondeterministic systems and using them for launch decisions.
- Product ownership experience involving direct user engagement, roadmap judgment, and ownership of what to build as well as how to build it.
- Strong user-experience and prototyping sensibility and the ability to partner with design.
- Preferred fluency in TypeScript and Node.js, with working range across React, Python, C++, and Kubernetes.
- Experience with manufacturing, logistics, field operations, or other domain-heavy operational users is preferred.
- Robotics experience is not required.
Benefits
- Hybrid schedule requiring three days per week onsite at the NYC office near Grand Central Station.
- Access to physical robots, dedicated demonstration and testing cells, and opportunities to validate work on real robots daily.
- Open collaborative spaces, focus zones, and ergonomic customizable workstations.
- Daily catered lunch, stocked kitchens, snacks and beverages, and regular team events.
- Employee stock options for full-time employees.
- Paid time off, medical, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and a 401(k) for eligible regular full-time employees.
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About Standard Bots
We believe AI-native robots are the essential power tool of the 21st century — the tool that will grow American manufacturing and help every American worker to be a force at work. You just show your robot how it’s done, and it learns through demonstration. No coding, no consultants, just unbox and deploy faster than anything else on the market. We are expanding our Glen Cove, New York facility to 70,000 square feet to scale our vertically integrated production process. We currently design almost all our own parts, including our own actuators, and we assemble every final product in-house. By 2027, we’ll manufacture everything — from metal in to robots out — right here in America. More at standardbots.com