Senior Engineer

Nuvia Staffing; Culver City (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Nuvia Staffing seeks an experienced software engineer to join on-site in Culver City, CA. You will work hands-on across the stack, building prototypes, integrations, and internal tools while acting as the technical anchor for the team.

The role emphasizes rapid validation with real data and direct collaboration with executives and business partners. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of hands-on software experience, strong coding ability, and practical AI/ML fluency.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building software professionally.
• Strong hands-on engineering skills; you write code daily.
• Practical AI/ML fluency; experience with models, perception, or speech.

Responsibilities

• Write production and prototype code across the stack.
• Stand up MVPs and demos, validate with real data/users.
• Build internal tools and lightweight automation.
• Ship integrations with devices, sensors, and third-party services Grace depends on.
• Take open technical questions and turn them into working evidence.
• Run end-to-end experiments and document findings.

Skills

Hands-on coding

AI/ML fluency

Autonomy

Technical communication

End-to-end prototyping

Job description

We are hiring our first in-house engineer!

We are looking for someone who can navigate the codebase independently, rigorously test ideas, and deliver credible answers quickly. This person will be entrusted with open-ended questions and expected to return with working evidence, not speculation.

The majority of your time will be devoted to hands‑on development — prototypes, integrations, internal tools, and R&D experiments. The remainder will be spent serving as the company's technical anchor: the person our engineering partner relies on for alignment, and the person our CEO turns to for a definitive answer when one is needed.

This is an on‑site position based in Culver City, CA, where you will work hands‑on with the team and the hardware — a responsibility that will grow in importance as our robotics initiatives expand.

As the organization scales, this position is expected to evolve into a technical leadership role, with the opportunity to build and lead an engineering team. We are seeking a candidate who is an accomplished senior individual contributor today and is prepared to take on that next level of responsibility.

What you'll do

Building

• Write production and prototype code across the stack. This is a hands‑on role, not a supervisory one.
• Stand up MVPs and working demos fast, then validate them with real data or real users before we commit engineering budget to them.
• Build the internal tools and lightweight automation that let a small team punch above its weight.
• Ship integrations with the devices, sensors, and third‑party services Grace depends on.

R&D and Technical Validation

• Take open technical questions (new models, new hardware, new open‑source components) and turn them into working evidence.
• Run experiments end to end: scope them, build them, measure the results, write up what you found, and recommend a call.
• Experiment with robotics hands‑on. We expect four to five humanoids on‑site, and someone needs to be in the room with them. Robotics experience is a strong plus, but curiosity and speed matter more.
• Evaluate build‑vs.-buy‑vs.-integrate decisions, and be able to defend the answer.

Being the Technical Voice in the Room

• Answer day‑to‑day technical questions from the CEO and the business side directly and plainly, without a translation layer.
• Give leadership honest reads on feasibility, effort, and risk, so roadmap conversations are grounded in reality.
• Push back on scope creep and unrealistic timelines when a project's ambitions outpace its resourcing, and say so early.
• Support the team in building technical narratives for decks and funding rounds.

Qualifications

Required

• 5+ years building software professionally, with a track record of shipping things real people used.
• Strong hands‑on engineering skills. You write code every day and you're good at it.
• Practical AI/ML fluency. You've built with LLMs, speech, or perception systems and understand where they break, not just how to call the API.
• Experience taking a product from zero to a working first version in an environment with incomplete information and no dedicated team.
• Excellent written and verbal communication. You'll be the connective tissue between technical execution and business stakeholders who don't share your context by default.
• Autonomy and ownership.
• Authorized to work in the United States and able to work on‑site in Culver City, CA.

Preferred

• Experience with robotics, humanoids, embodied AI, or IoT and connected devices.
• Comfort with hardware‑adjacent work: edge deployment, audio pipelines, sensors, on‑device inference.
• Experience working alongside distributed engineering teams.
• Early‑stage startup background
• Product instinct: you have opinions about what should be built, not just how.
• Background in a technical discipline (CS, engineering) or equivalent self‑taught technical depth.

What success looks like

• Open technical questions are resolved within days through working prototypes, rather than remaining unaddressed for a quarter.
• Our engineering partner operates with measurably greater velocity, as unknowns are resolved and blockers removed ahead of the roadmap.
• The robotics initiative has progressed from conceptual interest to demonstrable capability, driven by direct, hands‑on engagement with the hardware.
• Leadership maintains a clear, current, evidence‑based understanding of technical feasibility and associated costs.
• The CEO devotes less time to translating technical matters and more time to core business priorities, as this responsibility is effectively managed.

We're a mission‑driven technology startup transforming the way in‑home care is delivered through innovative AI solutions. Our platform unifies signals from cameras, sensors, wearables, and connected devices, turning raw data into secure, real‑time insights and closed‑loop care actions. The result: peace of mind for families, dignified independence for seniors, and the tools providers need to deliver safer, more proactive care.

We're a team tackling one of the most important challenges of our time: helping people age safely and independently at home. If that excites you, we'd love to have you join us.

The pay range for this role is:

100,000 - 150,000 USD per year (Corporate)