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Lead AI Native Engineer

Milpitas, CA, US • Posted 60+ days ago • Updated 10 hours ago

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FOCUS
Scalability
Recruiting
Reporting
Organizational Development
Computer Hardware
Servers
Access Control
Leadership
Analytical Skill
Customer Intelligence
Partnership
Fundraising
IT Management
Software Engineering
Machine Learning (ML)
Shipping
Prototyping
Orchestration
Regression Analysis
Failure Analysis
Fluency
Artificial Intelligence
Workflow
Collaboration
Training
Evaluation
Research
Microsoft Certified Professional
Robotics
Insurance
Team Building

FOCUS
Scalability
Recruiting
Reporting
Organizational Development
Computer Hardware
Servers
Access Control
Leadership
Analytical Skill
Customer Intelligence
Partnership
Fundraising
IT Management
Software Engineering
Machine Learning (ML)
Shipping
Prototyping
Orchestration
Regression Analysis
Failure Analysis
Fluency
Artificial Intelligence
Workflow
Collaboration
Training
Evaluation
Research
Microsoft Certified Professional
Robotics
Insurance
Team Building

Summary

Why RoboForce

RoboForce is an AI robotics company developing Physical AI-powered Robo-Labor for dull, dirty, and dangerous work. The company's robots are engineered for demanding industrial environments, with a focus on real-world deployment and scalability.

We are hiring a Lead AI Native Engineer to build RoboForce's vertical agents and shared agent foundation. Reporting to the co-founder, you will turn frontier models into systems for strategy and engineering. This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you will write code, set architecture, and enable agent development-not lead People programs or organizational transformation.

Responsibilities

Build vertical agents. Own end-to-end agents for high-value workflows across research, software, hardware, data, and operations-from problem definition through production use.
Establish the agent foundation. Build reusable primitives for models, tools, orchestration, context, memory, retrieval, permissions, human approval, and long-running execution.
Create the context layer. Connect agents to trusted data through APIs, pipelines, MCP servers, and integrations with clear provenance and access control.
Own evaluation and reliability. Build benchmarks, regression tests, tracing, monitoring, and failure-analysis loops across quality, latency, cost, security, and resilience.
Advance frontier agent usage. Evaluate new models, coding agents, SDKs, and patterns, then turn useful capabilities into maintainable systems rather than demos.
Support strategic initiatives. Help company leadership apply agents and analytical systems to market and customer intelligence, partnerships, fundraising, diligence, scenario analysis, and executive decisions.
Provide technical leadership. Set architecture and engineering standards, review designs and code, and create reusable patterns for the technical team.

Requirements

5+ years in software engineering, applied AI, ML systems, or a related field, with strong zero-to-one technical judgment.
Experience at a frontier AI lab, leading AI company, or comparable team working at the edge of current model capabilities.
A track record shipping production agentic systems that real users depend on-not only prompts, prototypes, or demos.
Deep experience with frontier model APIs, tool use, orchestration, context engineering, retrieval, memory, and multi-step workflows.
Experience building evaluations, regression tests, observability, and production failure-analysis loops for AI systems.
Exceptional fluency with AI-native development workflows using Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, agent SDKs, or equivalent systems, with a rigorous understanding of where agents work and fail.
Strong product judgment: able to turn an ambiguous decision or workflow into a useful, secure, measurable system.
Requires 5 days/week in-office collaboration with the team.

Bonus Qualifications

Experience with post-training, model evaluation, inference, or research infrastructure at a frontier lab or model company.
Experience with MCP infrastructure, developer platforms, knowledge graphs, RAG, or secure enterprise integrations.
Background in robotics, autonomous systems, industrial automation, or another technically complex physical-world domain.

Benefits

Competitive stock options/equity programs.
Health, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) plan.
Visa sponsorship and support for qualified candidates.
Lunches and dinners, a fully stocked kitchen, and regular team-building events.

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