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About the Role
Founding engineer at a pre-seed robotics company building low-cost, teleoperated humanoid platforms to enable remote physical work. You will own the end-to-end design and delivery of the robot, shaping manufacturing and deployment strategy as the company scales. This role offers the opportunity to define the technical direction of a physical product from day one, with significant equity and a competitive salary.
Responsibilities
- Architect and build a low-cost teleoperated humanoid robot designed to replace or augment on-site physical roles.
- Deliver the initial wheel-based robot for patient check-in in urgent care clinics, including self-charging and safe navigation, within a Bill of Materials (BOM) under $1,000.
- Solve the human-robot interaction challenge, crafting an experience that achieves a patient preference win-rate above 50% compared to in-person staff.
- Deploy and maintain a fleet of 50 robots in clinical environments, targeting a Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) exceeding 500 hours.
- Ship a contextual AI copilot that provides real-time guidance to remote operators, compressing new-hire training from weeks down to 24 hours, and laying the groundwork for a future physical reasoning model.
Requirements
- 3+ years of hands-on engineering experience with clear ownership of shipped projects.
- Proven experience building robots from scratch, integrating motors, sensors, actuators, and compute into cohesive, reliable systems.
- Solid firmware development skills and experience deploying ML models on edge systems with real-time, low-latency constraints.
- Expert-level proficiency in CAD, 3D printing, and quick-turn fabrication.
- Designs with cost, assembly time, tolerances, material selection, and scalable production in mind.
- Ability to question assumptions, invent novel solutions, and solve problems proactively.
- Strong CS fundamentals supporting both mechatronics and software development.
- Experience deploying and maintaining robots in clinical or field environments with uptime targets.
- Intuition for human-robot interaction and designing trustworthy robots.
- Exposure to healthcare or clinical environments.
- Early-stage startup or founding engineer experience.
Skills
- Mechatronics
- Integration
- Embedded Software
- AI
- ML Model Deployment
- Edge Systems
- Real-time Systems
- Low-latency Systems
- CAD
- 3D Printing
- Rapid Prototyping
- Design for Manufacturing
- First-Principles Thinking
- Radical Ownership
- CS Fundamentals
- Fleet Management
- Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
Location
- New York, NY
Work Type
- On-site
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $120,000 – $140,000 USD
Benefits
- Meaningful founding equity stake (~1%)
- Visa sponsorship available
About the Company
- Pre-seed robotics company building low-cost, teleoperated humanoid platforms that turn physical jobs into remote work.