Software Engineer — Robotics/AI

Career Genie, Inc; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary with relocation support

Equity participation

Direct access to real robots

Job summary

Career Genie, Inc is looking for a mid-level software engineer in Lisbon, Portugal. The successful candidate will connect AI models to robots and build cloud platforms, working closely with senior engineers. Ideal candidates have 3+ years of experience and familiarity with robotics software.

Datamentors, a robotics startup, offers a competitive salary and equity participation in a venture-backed company, with ongoing projects in real-world applications.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Familiarity with robotics middleware (ROS / ROS2) or willingness to learn.
• Solid testing and debugging fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Connect trained AI models to robot runtimes (ROS2-based).
• Build and maintain the Ardia cloud platform (React + Supabase).
• Integrate robot telemetry and deployment workflows.
• Write clean, testable Python and TypeScript.
• Work day-to-day with the Senior AI and Robotics engineers.

Skills

Experience with software engineering

Familiarity with robotics middleware

Testing and debugging skills

Tools

Python

TypeScript

ROS2

React

Supabase

Job description

• Work on real robots and real deployments from day one, not just prototypes or research demos
• Help shape a foundational platform for universal, robot-agnostic autonomy at an early stage
• Join a team building across the full robotics stack —from hardware and orchestration to AI reasoning and deployment
• Take ownership in a venture-backed startup with meaningful room to grow alongside the company
• Contribute to products with clear real-world applications in hospitality and future expansion into other industries

LOCATION

ABOUT DATAMENTORS

Datamentors is a robotics start-up building an agnostic orchestration platform and a family of proprietary robots — quadruped, mobile upper-body and humanoid — assembled at our own factory in Caniçal, Madeira. We also develop custom Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models that give our robots natural-language reasoning and autonomy, deployable across sectors from hospitality and healthcare to defence and logistics. With prototypes running and a clear path to 600 units per year, the engineers joining now will shape both the hardware and the intelligence behind Ardia for years to come.

ROLE OVERVIEW

Mid-level software engineers who connect AI models to robots and to the Ardia cloud platform. We hire two engineers progressively; you will work across robot-side code, the Ardia cloud, and the integration layer that ships AI policies onto real hardware.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Connect trained AI models to robot runtimes (ROS2-based)
• Build and maintain the Ardia cloud platform (React + Supabase)
• Integrate robot telemetry and deployment workflows
• Write clean, testable Python and TypeScript
• Work day-to-day with the Senior AI and Robotics engineers

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Familiarity with robotics middleware (ROS / ROS2) or willingness to learn
• Solid testing and debugging fundamentals
• EU-based or willing to relocate

WHY DATAMENTORS

• Competitive salary with relocation support to Madeira or Lisbon
• Equity participation in an early-stage, venture-backed robotics company
• Direct access to real robots and real deployments from day one
• A team that ships — not a research lab, not a demo company