Senior Software Engineer, AI Team

Socket.dev; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Stock Options

Health insurance

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

Job summary

Standard Bots in New York City seeks a seasoned software engineer to join our AI team and build the systems our models depend on. You will own data ingestion, training/inference infrastructure, and the perception pipeline that connects cameras to the robot, delivering customer-facing features.

The role is broad by design in a small team, allowing you to move from data pipelines to calibration bugs or a new API in the same month, with ownership and fast iteration.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience in complex environments, with a strong software engineering background.
• Experience in ML/AI-adjacent domains such as ML Ops, data pipelines, or computer vision is preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a bias toward practical execution.

Responsibilities

• Identify, scope, and drive high-impact technical and user-facing projects across the AI team's stack.
• Ship product surfaces that expose AI capabilities to users via applications and APIs.
• Mentor and advise other engineers on technical and personal growth.
• Drive technical decisions through hands-on and deep engineering work.

Skills

5-10 years experience

AI-adjacent depth

Growth + Optimism

Clarity of Communication

Impact Driven

Proactive Simplicity

Ambitious Environments

Tools

React

TypeScript

Node.js

Python

C++

PyTorch

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub Actions

Job description

About Standard BotsStandard Bot's mission is to significantly lower the barrier to entry to real-world automation, bringing the power of bits to the world of atoms and unlocking productivity for entire new industries and users. Our user-facing applications and APIs directly empower individuals and developers to jump directly into solving their challenges without the need for a background in robotics or automation. A relentless focus on simplicity and ease of use brings this revolutionary potential to new users and industries.

What You'll DoWe're looking for a seasoned, broad software engineer to join our AI team and build the systems our models depend on. Our AI researchers push the modeling frontier; this role owns nearly everything around it — the data that goes in, the infrastructure that trains and evaluates, the perception plumbing that connects cameras to the robot, and the product surfaces that put all of it in a customer's hands.

The AI team is small, so the surface area is wide and the ownership is real. You may move between adding functionality to the data ingestion pipeline, a camera calibration bug, and a customer-facing feature in the same month — and you'll decide which of those matters most this week.

Location and BenefitsThis role is hybrid with 3 days/week onsite in our NYC office, centrally located near Grand Central Station. The office is fully equipped with robots for demos and testing!

Responsibilities

• Identify, scope, and drive high impact technical and user facing projects across the AI team's stack

• Ship the product surfaces that expose AI capabilities to users — the applications and APIs customers actually touch

• Mentor and advise other engineers as well as peers on technical and personal advancement

• Drive technical decision making and implementation through hands-on and technically deep work

Plus ownership of one or more of these, depending on where your experience is strongest:

• Data pipelines: the flywheel for end-to-end AI — ingestion of teleop and demonstration data, labeling and curation tooling, dataset quality metrics

• Training and evaluation infrastructure: training pipelines, experiment tracking, GPU orchestration, model versioning, and deployment out to robots

• Perception integration: camera calibration, vision pipelines, and getting model outputs into the robot runtime reliably

Tech Stack

• Front-end: React, TypeScript

• Back-end: Node.js, Python, C++

• ML: PyTorch

• Kubernetes

• Docker

• GitHub Actions

Who You Are We do not require a background in robotics. We're looking for engineers who are self driven, optimistic, creative, and resourceful. We have no requirements for a background in robotics, but find most success with engineers excited by the domain and looking to apply their expertise and experience in a new area. Our ideal candidate will be open to doing approximately 70% back-end and 30% front-end work with flexibility to sway more towards one or the other, depending on current projects and team needs. This is a generalist role first — but on the AI team, so we're looking for someone whose breadth already reaches into at least one AI-adjacent domain.

Skills You'll Bring

• Experience: You have a strong technical background, including 5-10 years of experience working in complex environments

• AI-adjacent depth (strongly preferred): You have professional experience in at least one of ML Ops, data pipelines, or computer vision — for example building training or inference infrastructure, running large-scale data ingestion and curation, or shipping a vision pipeline to production. You don't need to have trained the models yourself.

• Growth + Optimism: You are excited by new domains and challenges, and eager to pick up new context to accelerate your impact

• Clarity of Communication: You excel in written and verbal communication and enjoy leveraging your skills to support your peers

• Impact Driven: You relentlessly seek user impact and value execution over technical idealism

• Proactive Simplicity: You prioritize simplicity, reliability, and velocity and proactively identify opportunities to improve proposed implementations or incumbent systems

• Excelling in Ambitious Environments: You excel in dynamic and ambitious environments, working with a diverse group of individuals and backgrounds

Compensation and Benefits The base salary range for this role is $180,000 to $210,000, depending on experience. Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at Standard Bots. All Full-Time Employees are eligible for Employee Stock Options. We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees.