Founding Platform Engineer – Robotics Fleet AI

a16z; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Motherboard Labs is seeking a founding engineer to work directly with modern fleets, building specialized software while shaping the shared platform underneath deployments. You will be employee 3, helping define architecture, product direction, and engineering culture.

Expect to collaborate with customers, deploy tooling, optimize systems with trace data, and tailor models for firmware diagnosis. You will navigate startup pace with ownership and drive across multiple domains.

Qualifications

• Founding engineer with product deployment experience preferred.
• Experience improving platforms underneath customer implementations.
• Ability to work directly with demanding customers.

Responsibilities

• Shape the architecture and engineering culture as an early team member.
• Build integration and agent tooling for a key customer data source.
• Optimize harness capabilities using trace data to improve reliability.
• Fine-tune specialized models for firmware error diagnosis.
• Generalize repeated customer needs into shared platform services.
• Navigate the chaos of an early startup with ownership and accountability.

Skills

Founding engineer

Platform experience

Customer-facing

Education

CS/Math/Software Eng/Physics preferred

Job description

Motherboard Labs is seeking a founding engineer to work directly with modern fleets, building specialized software while shaping the shared platform underneath deployments. You will be employee 3, helping define architecture, product direction, and engineering culture.

Expect to collaborate with customers, deploy tooling, optimize systems with trace data, and tailor models for firmware diagnosis. You will navigate startup pace with ownership and drive across multiple domains.