We're building a helpful robot for every home.
We're a small team of engineers, designers, and operators based in San Francisco. Our team comes from Tesla, Cruise, OpenAI, Google, Pixar, and many other great companies. In the past we've shipped to hundreds of millions of users and know what it takes to build amazing products and experiences.
Our team is deliberately lean to promote rapid decision making and do away with bureaucracy and hierarchy. Everyone is an IC and is empowered with massive scope, radical ownership, and direct responsibility. We work across the stack with a culture built for rapid iteration and fast execution.
All roles at The Bot Company demand extreme sharpness and the ability to move fast in high-intensity environments. Throughout the process, we expect candidates to demonstrate:
Exceptional mental acuity: you think quickly, learn instantly, and reason across unfamiliar domains.
Engineering curiosity: you naturally dig into how systems work, even outside your specialty.
High performance mindset: you move fast, handle ambiguity, and excel when the environment is demanding.
You’ll design the mechanical systems, structures, and mechanisms that bring our robots to life. This role is for someone with exceptional mechanical intuition, the ability to prototype rapidly, and a track record of shipping reliable hardware at scale.
Extremely strong mechanical intuition — you understand how parts, forces, tolerances, and mechanisms behave instinctively.
Ability to design and prototype on aggressive timelines, moving quickly from concept to functional hardware.
Experience building reliable products that shipped at scale, with a clear understanding of manufacturing constraints and real-world robustness.
Experience working directly with contract manufacturers (CMs) and personally designing components for volume processes:
Injection molding
Die casting
Stamping / sheet metal
Extrusion
Powder metal / MIM
Deep experience designing custom mechanisms and actuators, from kinematics and linkage design to motor selection, gearing, and tolerancing.
Proven ability to own complex electro-mechanical systems with moving parts, integrating mechanical, electrical, and firmware constraints into a cohesive design.
Own mechanical design for core subsystems, from initial concept through high-volume production.
Prototype rapidly and iterate based on real-world testing and failure analysis.
Design custom mechanisms, actuators, and assemblies for high-performance robotic behavior.
Collaborate closely with electrical, firmware, and manufacturing teams to integrate full electro-mechanical systems.
Drive DFM, tolerance analysis, material selection, and vendor coordination for volume manufacturing.
Move quickly and independently to deliver robust, production-ready hardware.
You’ll work with a small, elite team on challenges that require speed, intelligence, and deep engineering instinct. If you enjoy understanding systems at all levels, move fast, and think even faster, you’ll thrive here.
","descriptionPlain":"THE BOT COMPANY\n\nWe're building a helpful robot for every home.\n\nWe're a small team of engineers, designers, and operators based in San Francisco. Our team comes from Tesla, Cruise, OpenAI, Google, Pixar, and many other great companies. In the past we've shipped to hundreds of millions of users and know what it takes to build amazing products and experiences.\n\nOur team is deliberately lean to promote rapid decision making and do away with bureaucracy and hierarchy. Everyone is an IC and is empowered with massive scope, radical ownership, and direct responsibility. We work across the stack with a culture built for rapid iteration and fast execution.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE LOOK FOR IN ALL CANDIDATES\n\nAll roles at The Bot Company demand extreme sharpness and the ability to move fast in high-intensity environments. Throughout the process, we expect candidates to demonstrate:\n\n - Exceptional mental acuity: you think quickly, learn instantly, and reason across unfamiliar domains.\n\n - Engineering curiosity: you naturally dig into how systems work, even outside your specialty.\n\n - High performance mindset: you move fast, handle ambiguity, and excel when the environment is demanding.\n \n \n\n\nMECHANICAL ENGINEER\n\nYou’ll design the mechanical systems, structures, and mechanisms that bring our robots to life. This role is for someone with exceptional mechanical intuition, the ability to prototype rapidly, and a track record of shipping reliable hardware at scale.\n\n\n\n\nREQUIREMENTS\n\n - Extremely strong mechanical intuition — you understand how parts, forces, tolerances, and mechanisms behave instinctively.\n\n - Ability to design and prototype on aggressive timelines, moving quickly from concept to functional hardware.\n\n - Experience building reliable products that shipped at scale, with a clear understanding of manufacturing constraints and real-world robustness.\n\n - Experience working directly with contract manufacturers (CMs) and personally designing components for volume processes:\n \n - Injection molding\n \n - Die casting\n \n - Stamping / sheet metal\n \n - Extrusion\n \n - Powder metal / MIM\n\n - Deep experience designing custom mechanisms and actuators, from kinematics and linkage design to motor selection, gearing, and tolerancing.\n\n - Proven ability to own complex electro-mechanical systems with moving parts, integrating mechanical, electrical, and firmware constraints into a cohesive design.\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL DO\n\n - Own mechanical design for core subsystems, from initial concept through high-volume production.\n\n - Prototype rapidly and iterate based on real-world testing and failure analysis.\n\n - Design custom mechanisms, actuators, and assemblies for high-performance robotic behavior.\n\n - Collaborate closely with electrical, firmware, and manufacturing teams to integrate full electro-mechanical systems.\n\n - Drive DFM, tolerance analysis, material selection, and vendor coordination for volume manufacturing.\n\n - Move quickly and independently to deliver robust, production-ready hardware.\n\n\n\n\nWHY JOIN\n\nYou’ll work with a small, elite team on challenges that require speed, intelligence, and deep engineering instinct. If you enjoy understanding systems at all levels, move fast, and think even faster, you’ll thrive here."},{"id":"a0e4bc6b-3b6a-4637-9252-c51ea2f82c1b","title":"Something Else","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-11-21T03:20:43.836+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":null,"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thebotcompany/a0e4bc6b-3b6a-4637-9252-c51ea2f82c1b","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thebotcompany/a0e4bc6b-3b6a-4637-9252-c51ea2f82c1b/application","descriptionHtml":"We're building a helpful robot for every home.
We're a small team of engineers, designers, and operators based in San Francisco. Our team comes from Tesla, Cruise, OpenAI, Google, Pixar, and many other great companies. In the past we've shipped to hundreds of millions of users and know what it takes to build amazing products and experiences.
Our team is deliberately lean to promote rapid decision making and do away with bureaucracy and hierarchy. Everyone is an IC and is empowered with massive scope, radical ownership, and direct responsibility. We work across the stack with a culture built for rapid iteration and fast execution.
All roles at The Bot Company demand extreme sharpness and the ability to move fast in high-intensity environments. Throughout the process, we expect candidates to demonstrate:
Exceptional mental acuity: you think quickly, learn instantly, and reason across unfamiliar domains.
Engineering curiosity: you naturally dig into how systems work, even outside your specialty.
High performance mindset: you move fast, handle ambiguity, and excel when the environment is demanding.
If you're exceptional, fit all our criteria, and believe you will be a strong addition to our team - even if we do not have a job open that perfectly fits you - this is the place where you apply.
You’ll work with a small, elite team on challenges that require speed, intelligence, and deep engineering instinct. If you enjoy understanding systems at all levels, move fast, and think even faster, you’ll thrive here.
","descriptionPlain":"THE BOT COMPANY\n\nWe're building a helpful robot for every home.\n\nWe're a small team of engineers, designers, and operators based in San Francisco. Our team comes from Tesla, Cruise, OpenAI, Google, Pixar, and many other great companies. In the past we've shipped to hundreds of millions of users and know what it takes to build amazing products and experiences.\n\nOur team is deliberately lean to promote rapid decision making and do away with bureaucracy and hierarchy. Everyone is an IC and is empowered with massive scope, radical ownership, and direct responsibility. We work across the stack with a culture built for rapid iteration and fast execution.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE LOOK FOR IN ALL CANDIDATES\n\nAll roles at The Bot Company demand extreme sharpness and the ability to move fast in high-intensity environments. Throughout the process, we expect candidates to demonstrate:\n\n - Exceptional mental acuity: you think quickly, learn instantly, and reason across unfamiliar domains.\n\n - Engineering curiosity: you naturally dig into how systems work, even outside your specialty.\n\n - High performance mindset: you move fast, handle ambiguity, and excel when the environment is demanding.\n \n \n\n\nSOMETHING ELSE\n\nIf you're exceptional, fit all our criteria, and believe you will be a strong addition to our team - even if we do not have a job open that perfectly fits you - this is the place where you apply.\n\n\n\n\nWHY JOIN\n\nYou’ll work with a small, elite team on challenges that require speed, intelligence, and deep engineering instinct. If you enjoy understanding systems at all levels, move fast, and think even faster, you’ll thrive here."},{"id":"994a0617-427d-44ba-8dd3-cd5805579920","title":"3D Vision","department":"Engineering","team":"Software","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-11-30T23:54:03.237+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":null,"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thebotcompany/994a0617-427d-44ba-8dd3-cd5805579920","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thebotcompany/994a0617-427d-44ba-8dd3-cd5805579920/application","descriptionHtml":"We're building a helpful robot for every home.
We're a small team of engineers, designers, and operators based in San Francisco. Our team comes from Tesla, Cruise, OpenAI, Google, Pixar, and many other great companies. In the past we've shipped to hundreds of millions of users and know what it takes to build amazing products and experiences.
Our team is deliberately lean to promote rapid decision making and do away with bureaucracy and hierarchy. Everyone is an IC and is empowered with massive scope, radical ownership, and direct responsibility. We work across the stack with a culture built for rapid iteration and fast execution.
All roles at The Bot Company demand extreme sharpness and the ability to move fast in high-intensity environments. Throughout the process, we expect candidates to demonstrate:
Exceptional mental acuity: you think quickly, learn instantly, and reason across unfamiliar domains.
Engineering curiosity: you naturally dig into how systems work, even outside your specialty.
High performance mindset: you move fast, handle ambiguity, and excel when the environment is demanding.
You’ll build the 3D perception systems that allow our robots to understand and navigate real-world environments. This role is for someone who can design state-of-the-art 3D vision pipelines from the ground up, combine classical geometry with modern deep learning, and turn research ideas into production-quality systems.
Very strong coding skills in Python and/or C++.
Experience with PyTorch and CUDA, including custom operators, optimized data pipelines, or model acceleration.
Experience building 3D vision systems from scratch — not just using off-the-shelf libraries.
Strong understanding of different sensor modalities (e.g., cameras, IMUs, wheel odometry, LiDAR, etc.), including their measurement models, calibration procedures, temporal synchronization, and noise characterization.
Deep domain expertise in at least two of the following areas:
Multi-view geometry, bundle adjustment, pose graph optimization, visual-inertial odometry.
Dense 3D reconstruction, novel-view synthesis (NeRF, Gaussian Splatting, etc.).
Training depth estimation, optical flow, or feature matching networks.
Design and build end-to-end 3D perception systems for real-world robotic environments.
Develop geometric vision pipelines—SLAM, reconstruction, tracking—and integrate them with learned models.
Implement and optimize deep learning models for depth, flow, correspondence, and 3D understanding.
Prototype rapidly, measure performance in realistic conditions, and iterate to production-quality solutions.
Collaborate closely with robotics, simulation, and platform teams to integrate 3D perception into the full stack.
Move quickly and independently to solve hard 3D vision and geometry problems.
You’ll work with a small, elite team on challenges that require speed, intelligence, and deep engineering instinct. If you enjoy understanding systems at all levels, move fast, and think even faster, you’ll thrive here.
","descriptionPlain":"THE BOT COMPANY\n\nWe're building a helpful robot for every home.\n\nWe're a small team of engineers, designers, and operators based in San Francisco. Our team comes from Tesla, Cruise, OpenAI, Google, Pixar, and many other great companies. In the past we've shipped to hundreds of millions of users and know what it takes to build amazing products and experiences.\n\nOur team is deliberately lean to promote rapid decision making and do away with bureaucracy and hierarchy. Everyone is an IC and is empowered with massive scope, radical ownership, and direct responsibility. We work across the stack with a culture built for rapid iteration and fast execution.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE LOOK FOR IN ALL CANDIDATES\n\nAll roles at The Bot Company demand extreme sharpness and the ability to move fast in high-intensity environments. Throughout the process, we expect candidates to demonstrate:\n\n - Exceptional mental acuity: you think quickly, learn instantly, and reason across unfamiliar domains.\n\n - Engineering curiosity: you naturally dig into how systems work, even outside your specialty.\n\n - High performance mindset: you move fast, handle ambiguity, and excel when the environment is demanding.\n \n \n\n\n3D VISION RESEARCHER / ENGINEER\n\nYou’ll build the 3D perception systems that allow our robots to understand and navigate real-world environments. This role is for someone who can design state-of-the-art 3D vision pipelines from the ground up, combine classical geometry with modern deep learning, and turn research ideas into production-quality systems.\n\n\n\n\nREQUIREMENTS\n\n - Very strong coding skills in Python and/or C++.\n\n - Experience with PyTorch and CUDA, including custom operators, optimized data pipelines, or model acceleration.\n\n - Experience building 3D vision systems from scratch — not just using off-the-shelf libraries.\n\n - Strong understanding of different sensor modalities (e.g., cameras, IMUs, wheel odometry, LiDAR, etc.), including their measurement models, calibration procedures, temporal synchronization, and noise characterization.\n\n - Deep domain expertise in at least two of the following areas:\n \n - Multi-view geometry, bundle adjustment, pose graph optimization, visual-inertial odometry.\n \n - Dense 3D reconstruction, novel-view synthesis (NeRF, Gaussian Splatting, etc.).\n \n - Training depth estimation, optical flow, or feature matching networks.\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL DO\n\n - Design and build end-to-end 3D perception systems for real-world robotic environments.\n\n - Develop geometric vision pipelines—SLAM, reconstruction, tracking—and integrate them with learned models.\n\n - Implement and optimize deep learning models for depth, flow, correspondence, and 3D understanding.\n\n - Prototype rapidly, measure performance in realistic conditions, and iterate to production-quality solutions.\n\n - Collaborate closely with robotics, simulation, and platform teams to integrate 3D perception into the full stack.\n\n - Move quickly and independently to solve hard 3D vision and geometry problems.\n\n\n\n\nWHY JOIN\n\nYou’ll work with a small, elite team on challenges that require speed, intelligence, and deep engineering instinct. If you enjoy understanding systems at all levels, move fast, and think even faster, you’ll thrive here."},{"id":"500934ea-a6ce-497b-96f4-675bd5b37de9","title":"ML Infra - Data Infrastructure","department":"Engineering","team":"Software","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-11-21T00:44:54.945+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":null,"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thebotcompany/500934ea-a6ce-497b-96f4-675bd5b37de9","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thebotcompany/500934ea-a6ce-497b-96f4-675bd5b37de9/application","descriptionHtml":"We're building a helpful robot for every home.
We're a small team of engineers, designers, and operators based in San Francisco. Our team comes from Tesla, Cruise, OpenAI, Google, Pixar, and many other great companies. In the past we've shipped to hundreds of millions of users and know what it takes to build amazing products and experiences.
Our team is deliberately lean to promote rapid decision making and do away with bureaucracy and hierarchy. Everyone is an IC and is empowered with massive scope, radical ownership, and direct responsibility. We work across the stack with a culture built for rapid iteration and fast execution.
All roles at The Bot Company demand extreme sharpness and the ability to move fast in high-intensity environments. Throughout the process, we expect candidates to demonstrate:
Exceptional mental acuity: you think quickly, learn instantly, and reason across unfamiliar domains.
Engineering curiosity: you naturally dig into how systems work, even outside your specialty.
High performance mindset: you move fast, handle ambiguity, and excel when the environment is demanding.
As an expert in building large-scale data processing systems, you will build the foundation of how our data flows from acquisition to being used to improve the autonomous capabilities of our robots
Strong coding ability, with exceptional familiarity with Python, Go, and/or C++.
Strong experience building and maintaining production systems that process PBs of data on thousands of machines.
Experience with cloud networking (performance, reliability, scale, and security).
Experience serving ML models at scale is a plus, but not required.
Strong knowledge in Kubernetes clusters is a plus.
Design, build, and maintain large-scale data processing systems.
Collaborate with other functions (e.g. ML, Platform, etc).
Independently triage and solve complex infrastructure problems across our stack.
You’ll work with a small, elite team on challenges that require speed, intelligence, and deep engineering instinct. If you enjoy understanding systems at all levels, move fast, and think even faster, you’ll thrive here.
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We're a small team of engineers, designers, and operators based in San Francisco. Our team comes from Tesla, Cruise, OpenAI, Google, Pixar, and many other great companies. In the past we've shipped to hundreds of millions of users and know what it takes to build amazing products and experiences.
Our team is deliberately lean to promote rapid decision making and do away with bureaucracy and hierarchy. Everyone is an IC and is empowered with massive scope, radical ownership, and direct responsibility. We work across the stack with a culture built for rapid iteration and fast execution.
All roles at The Bot Company demand extreme sharpness and the ability to move fast in high-intensity environments. Throughout the process, we expect candidates to demonstrate:
Exceptional mental acuity: you think quickly, learn instantly, and reason across unfamiliar domains.
Engineering curiosity: you naturally dig into how systems work, even outside your specialty.
High performance mindset: you move fast, handle ambiguity, and excel when the environment is demanding.
We are building neural simulators that understand the \"grammar\" of the physical world, including physics, causality, and long-term dynamics.
You will develop video generation into controllable, large-scale world models.
Architect Neural Simulators: Design and train spatiotemporal models that move beyond short clips toward coherent, long-form world simulations.
Scale Training: Own the end-to-end training of multi-billion parameter models on huge clusters.
Own the Training Loop End-to-End: Design, run, debug, and iterate on large-scale training experiments—diagnosing failure modes, improving data mixtures, and tightening evaluation to drive measurable gains.
Very strong coding skills in Python, C++, or Rust.
Video Generation Expertise: Deep experience shipping/researching high-fidelity video models.
Architectural Intuition: Ability to design from scratch and reason about scaling laws and failure modes.
Infrastructure Fluency: Comfortable managing and optimizing large-scale experiments on massive GPU clusters.
You’ll work with a small, elite team on challenges that require speed, intelligence, and deep engineering instinct. If you enjoy understanding systems at all levels, move fast, and think even faster, you’ll thrive here.
","descriptionPlain":"THE BOT COMPANY\n\nWe're building a helpful robot for every home.\n\nWe're a small team of engineers, designers, and operators based in San Francisco. Our team comes from Tesla, Cruise, OpenAI, Google, Pixar, and many other great companies. In the past we've shipped to hundreds of millions of users and know what it takes to build amazing products and experiences.\n\nOur team is deliberately lean to promote rapid decision making and do away with bureaucracy and hierarchy. Everyone is an IC and is empowered with massive scope, radical ownership, and direct responsibility. We work across the stack with a culture built for rapid iteration and fast execution.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE LOOK FOR IN ALL CANDIDATES\n\nAll roles at The Bot Company demand extreme sharpness and the ability to move fast in high-intensity environments. Throughout the process, we expect candidates to demonstrate:\n\n - Exceptional mental acuity: you think quickly, learn instantly, and reason across unfamiliar domains.\n\n - Engineering curiosity: you naturally dig into how systems work, even outside your specialty.\n\n - High performance mindset: you move fast, handle ambiguity, and excel when the environment is demanding.\n \n \n\n\nMACHINE LEARNING: WORLD MODELS\n\nWe are building neural simulators that understand the \"grammar\" of the physical world, including physics, causality, and long-term dynamics.\n\nYou will develop video generation into controllable, large-scale world models.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\n\n - Architect Neural Simulators: Design and train spatiotemporal models that move beyond short clips toward coherent, long-form world simulations.\n\n - Scale Training: Own the end-to-end training of multi-billion parameter models on huge clusters.\n\n - Own the Training Loop End-to-End: Design, run, debug, and iterate on large-scale training experiments—diagnosing failure modes, improving data mixtures, and tightening evaluation to drive measurable gains.\n\n\nREQUIREMENTS\n\n - Very strong coding skills in Python, C++, or Rust.\n\n - Video Generation Expertise: Deep experience shipping/researching high-fidelity video models.\n\n - Architectural Intuition: Ability to design from scratch and reason about scaling laws and failure modes.\n\n - Infrastructure Fluency: Comfortable managing and optimizing large-scale experiments on massive GPU clusters.\n\n\n\n\nWHY JOIN\n\nYou’ll work with a small, elite team on challenges that require speed, intelligence, and deep engineering instinct. If you enjoy understanding systems at all levels, move fast, and think even faster, you’ll thrive here."},{"id":"aa5a8fff-d742-461a-a987-9bcaf87e44d5","title":"Machine Learning: Multimodal Foundation Models","department":"Engineering","team":"Software","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-02-25T22:52:12.863+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":null,"workplaceType":null,"address":null,"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thebotcompany/aa5a8fff-d742-461a-a987-9bcaf87e44d5","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thebotcompany/aa5a8fff-d742-461a-a987-9bcaf87e44d5/application","descriptionHtml":"We're building a helpful robot for every home.
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Our team is deliberately lean to promote rapid decision making and do away with bureaucracy and hierarchy. Everyone is an IC and is empowered with massive scope, radical ownership, and direct responsibility. We work across the stack with a culture built for rapid iteration and fast execution.
All roles at The Bot Company demand extreme sharpness and the ability to move fast in high-intensity environments. Throughout the process, we expect candidates to demonstrate:
Exceptional mental acuity: you think quickly, learn instantly, and reason across unfamiliar domains.
Engineering curiosity: you naturally dig into how systems work, even outside your specialty.
High performance mindset: you move fast, handle ambiguity, and excel when the environment is demanding.
We are building unified foundation models that natively reason across text, image, video, and kinematics to drive intelligent robotic policies.
You will work on large multi-modal networks and own the entire stack from data to training and deploying models.
Build Native Multimodal Policies: Develop architectures where vision, language, and more modalities share a unified representation.
Improve Cross-Modal Reasoning: Research and implement methods to ensure the model doesn't just \"associate\" modalities but actually reasons through them (e.g., grounding visual physics in kinematic constraints).
Own the Training Loop End-to-End: Design, run, debug, and iterate on large-scale training experiments; diagnosing failure modes, improving data mixtures, and tightening evaluation to drive measurable gains.
Ship and Iterate on Real Systems: Integrate models into real robotic stacks, build on robot code to deploy your models, and optimize performance for edge inference.
Very strong coding skills in Python, C++, or Rust.
Production MLLM Experience: Track record of training and deploying large-scale multimodal models.
Pretraining & RL Mastery: Deep intuition for LLM-style pretraining, post-training, and Reinforcement Learning at scale.
Infrastructure Fluency: Comfortable managing and optimizing large-scale experiments on massive GPU clusters.
You’ll work with a small, elite team on challenges that require speed, intelligence, and deep engineering instinct. If you enjoy understanding systems at all levels, move fast, and think even faster, you’ll thrive here.
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We're a small team of engineers, designers, and operators based in San Francisco. Our team comes from Tesla, Cruise, OpenAI, Google, Pixar, and many other great companies. In the past we've shipped to hundreds of millions of users and know what it takes to build amazing products and experiences.
Our team is deliberately lean to promote rapid decision making and do away with bureaucracy and hierarchy. Everyone is an IC and is empowered with massive scope, radical ownership, and direct responsibility. We work across the stack with a culture built for rapid iteration and fast execution.
All roles at The Bot Company demand extreme sharpness and the ability to move fast in high-intensity environments. Throughout the process, we expect candidates to demonstrate:
Exceptional mental acuity: you think quickly, learn instantly, and reason across unfamiliar domains.
Engineering curiosity: you naturally dig into how systems work, even outside your specialty.
High performance mindset: you move fast, handle ambiguity, and excel when the environment is demanding.
We are building high-performance whole-body controllers that produce robust, agile motion and manipulation in the real world.
You will train low-level control policies in simulation and own the stack from environment design to large-scale training and sim-to-real deployment.
Train whole-body policies for locomotion, manipulation, and coordinated motion.
Build scalable simulation environments in IsaacLab, MuJoCo, or similar with parallel rollouts.
Design rewards and curricula that enable stable long-horizon learning.
Own sim-to-real transfer using domain randomization and structured evaluation.
Run and debug large-scale GPU training experiments.
Very strong coding skills in Python, C++, or Rust. CUDA is a plus.
Strong foundations in modern reinforcement learning.
Experience training embodied control policies.
Hands-on robotics simulation experience.
Solid intuition for dynamics, contact, and actuation.
Comfortable running large-scale GPU experiments.
You’ll work with a small, elite team on challenges that require speed, intelligence, and deep engineering instinct. If you enjoy understanding systems at all levels, move fast, and think even faster, you’ll thrive here.
","descriptionPlain":"THE BOT COMPANY\n\nWe're building a helpful robot for every home.\n\nWe're a small team of engineers, designers, and operators based in San Francisco. Our team comes from Tesla, Cruise, OpenAI, Google, Pixar, and many other great companies. In the past we've shipped to hundreds of millions of users and know what it takes to build amazing products and experiences.\n\nOur team is deliberately lean to promote rapid decision making and do away with bureaucracy and hierarchy. Everyone is an IC and is empowered with massive scope, radical ownership, and direct responsibility. We work across the stack with a culture built for rapid iteration and fast execution.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE LOOK FOR IN ALL CANDIDATES\n\nAll roles at The Bot Company demand extreme sharpness and the ability to move fast in high-intensity environments. Throughout the process, we expect candidates to demonstrate:\n\n - Exceptional mental acuity: you think quickly, learn instantly, and reason across unfamiliar domains.\n\n - Engineering curiosity: you naturally dig into how systems work, even outside your specialty.\n\n - High performance mindset: you move fast, handle ambiguity, and excel when the environment is demanding.\n \n \n\n\nMACHINE LEARNING: WHOLE-BODY CONTROL\n\nWe are building high-performance whole-body controllers that produce robust, agile motion and manipulation in the real world. \n\nYou will train low-level control policies in simulation and own the stack from environment design to large-scale training and sim-to-real deployment.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\n\n - Train whole-body policies for locomotion, manipulation, and coordinated motion.\n\n - Build scalable simulation environments in IsaacLab, MuJoCo, or similar with parallel rollouts.\n\n - Design rewards and curricula that enable stable long-horizon learning.\n\n - Own sim-to-real transfer using domain randomization and structured evaluation.\n\n - Run and debug large-scale GPU training experiments.\n\n\nREQUIREMENTS\n\n - Very strong coding skills in Python, C++, or Rust. CUDA is a plus.\n\n - Strong foundations in modern reinforcement learning.\n\n - Experience training embodied control policies.\n\n - Hands-on robotics simulation experience.\n\n - Solid intuition for dynamics, contact, and actuation.\n\n - Comfortable running large-scale GPU experiments.\n\n\n\n\nWHY JOIN\n\nYou’ll work with a small, elite team on challenges that require speed, intelligence, and deep engineering instinct. If you enjoy understanding systems at all levels, move fast, and think even faster, you’ll thrive here."}],"apiVersion":"1"}