Founding Engineer (m/f/d)

Startup Port; Hamburg; Vor Ort; EUR 85.000 - 125.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Uniform Robotics is hiring a founding engineer to evolve our web and backend, design scalable architectures, and build AI agent workflows that analyze regulation and produce safety analyses for autonomous systems.

You will own core features, work with the founders, and help shape product strategy in a fast-moving, equity‑heavy environment, on-site in Hamburg or Berlin.

Qualifikationen

• 2-4 years of professional experience as a full-stack software engineer.
• Excellent hands-on skills in TypeScript and Next.js.
• Confident working with PostgreSQL and Python.
• Hands-on experience with LangChain or comparable agent frameworks.
• Strong understanding of architecture, API design and security.

Aufgaben

• Evolve our web application and backend systems.
• Design and implement scalable system architectures.
• Build AI agents and multi-step workflows for regulatory analysis.
• Translate customer problems into robust technical solutions.
• Build typed data, API and workflow interfaces.
• Develop asynchronous processes, workers and background jobs.
• Ensure data quality, traceability and reproducible results.
• Work closely with the founding team, customers and domain experts.

Kenntnisse

Full-stack development

TypeScript & Next.js

System design

API design

English proficiency

Tools

TypeScript

Next.js

PostgreSQL

Python

LangChain

Jobbeschreibung

We are looking for a technically strong full-stack Founding Engineer to evolve our product together with the founding team and shape the next generation of intelligent engineering and safety software for the robotics and automation industry.

Europe builds excellent robots but often overspends proving their safety. We believe this is a software problem, and we are building the regulatory operating system for teams putting physical AI into the world, automating safety engineering and certification workflows. Robotics and AI are in hyper growth, and the EU regulatory landscape is transforming rapidly in response. The whole industry needs what we are building.

As a Founding Engineer at Uniform Robotics, you won't just build features. You'll take ownership of architecture, quality, security and real customer value. Together with the two founders, you'll improve the product iteratively and help us act quickly on direct customer feedback. A core part of the role is building new, purpose‑built agent systems that support complex technical analysis for autonomous systems like robots and drones reliably, traceably and safely.

What you'll do

Evolve our web application and backend systems

Design and implement scalable system architectures

Build AI agents and multi‑step agent workflows that analyze regulation, reason about a machine’s design and produce safety analyses and risk assessments that hold up in an audit

Translate customer problems into robust technical solutions

Build typed data, API and workflow interfaces

Develop asynchronous processes, workers and background jobs

Ensure data quality, traceability and reproducible results

Work closely with the founding team, customers and domain experts

What you bring

2-4 years of professional experience as a full‑stack software engineer

Excellent hands‑on skills in TypeScript and Next.js

Confident working with PostgreSQL

Good to very good Python skills

Hands‑on experience with LangChain or comparable agent frameworks

A strong understanding of system design, software architecture and API design, plus good knowledge of application security (authentication, authorization, secrets and data isolation)

Excellent written and spoken English and working proficiency in German

How you work

You analyze complex technical problems in a structured way and explain them simply. You work independently, pragmatically and with a strong sense of accountability. You have strong product sense and enjoy working directly with customers.

Especially valuable

You get excited when software touches the physical world, especially robots

Experience with regulation and ISO standards, functional safety or safety engineering in the robotics and automation industry

Deep knowledge of cybersecurity threats and mitigation strategies

Knowledge of risk assessment, FMEA, FMEDA and product certification

Experience with regulated products or industrial B2B applications

A realistic view of when to use AI vs. deterministic logic

About Uniform Robotics

Uniform Robotics was founded in 2025 and is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany. We are a team of 2 founders across engineering and regulatory affairs, backed by early‑stage European investors. Humanoids, mobile robots and cobots are among the cases we know best. We have paying customers and are currently supporting international OEMs and system integrators deploying their products safely across a variety of use cases.

A mission with real‑world impact: your work directly ensures that AI‑driven robots remain safe for use in industry and for consumers

A key role with real ownership and high impact on product, architecture and technical strategy

The opportunity to build novel agent systems with measurable customer value

A small, vibrant team of builders with flat hierarchies, short decision paths and zero bureaucracy, working daily with the founders and our customers

Startup energy: we move fast, ship often and celebrate our wins together

A steep learning curve at the intersection of software, AI, robotics and safety regulation – you grow as fast as we do

On‑site in Hamburg or Berlin: we build side by side, from whiteboard to production, with regular team events and free office drinks

Compensation

Early‑stage salary

Meaningful equity to balance the early‑stage salary

Fast salary growth as you help Uniform grow: we bring your salary to market level in the next 12 months

Our hiring process

Intro call: mutual vibe check to get to know each other and see if we click

Live technical session: a hands‑on exercise with technical questions you work through live, based on a realistic problem from our product

Debrief & conversation: we debrief your answers from the live technical session together, discuss your questions and clarify everything you want to know

Offer: if it's a match on both sides, you'll receive an offer

Europe builds excellent robots, but often overspends proving their safety. We believe this is a software problem, and we are building the regulatory operating system for teams putting physical AI into the world. Our AI‑native services business model follows from that. We do not sell our time, but defined regulatory results at a fixed price, produced with our own agentic platform, and we carry the effort risk of getting there. Uniform Robotics was founded in 2025 and is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany. We are a team of 3 across engineering and regulatory affairs, backed by early domestic investors.