Senior Platform & AI Agents Engineer

Greylock Partners; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Greylock Partners in New York City seeks an early, high-ownership builder for a robotics startup. You will work across software, firmware and hardware to automate development and testing of physical hardware platforms.

This in-person role—five days a week—focuses on cloud infrastructure, SDKs, APIs, and tooling, enabling rapid simulations and end-to-end workflows for customers and internal teams.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping dev-facing tools, SDKs, APIs, and CLIs.
• Production cloud systems with emphasis on reliability and performance.
• Strong Python skills; Rust or C++ are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and run cloud infrastructure behind simulations: orchestration, GPU pools, storage, observability.
• Ship the web app users rely on to author, run, and review simulations.
• Create SDKs, CLIs, and internal tools for engineers and customers.
• Develop an agentic harness (APIs, MCP servers, evals) enabling end-to-end simulations.
• Improve performance, reliability, and cost as usage scales.
• Collaborate directly with customers to integrate the platform into pipelines.

Skills

Generalist engineer

Cloud systems

Python

Rust/C++

Distributed systems

Coding agents leverage

Tools

GCP

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

Job description

Greylock Partners in New York City seeks an early, high-ownership builder for a robotics startup. You will work across software, firmware and hardware to automate development and testing of physical hardware platforms.

This in-person role—five days a week—focuses on cloud infrastructure, SDKs, APIs, and tooling, enabling rapid simulations and end-to-end workflows for customers and internal teams.