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title: 'Founding Engineer at gerra.com'
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# Founding Engineer at gerra.com

- **Company:** gerra.com
- **Location:** Los Angeles, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-09-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/gerra/am9icG9zdDrGdny9gM0Ign4W0iIJm8jv

## Job description

Founding Engineer

Location: Los Angeles (in-office, 5 days/week)

Compensation: $225K–$300K base + equity

## About Gerra

We’re deploying AI-powered robots that are transforming how businesses acquire and serve customers. Our robots drive 5x sales increases and 10x reductions in customer acquisition costs. The model works — now we need a founding engineer to build the systems that let us scale from dozens to hundreds of deployments monthly.

This isn’t about building features. It’s about creating the technical backbone for an entirely new way businesses grow. Think of joining Microsoft in 1985 to help businesses adopt PCs — except this time it’s humanoids redefining how companies acquire labor.

## The Role

As our Founding Engineer, you’ll architect, build, and ship the software + systems that power real-world robot deployments across retail, hospitality, and live events. You’ll work directly with the founders, sales, and deployment teams to turn pilots into chain-wide rollouts. Every line of code you ship directly translates into millions in ARR and into businesses transforming their customer experience. This is a ground-floor role with direct ownership over the product and technology stack. You won’t just build — you’ll set the culture, playbooks, and standards for the engineering team we hire around you.

## What You’ll Do

- Build and scale the software platform that powers 100+ robot deployments monthly
- Design APIs, dashboards, and integrations that make robots usable for Fortune 500 clients
- Translate customer outcomes into product features with immediate ROI
- Partner with deployment leads to ensure Day 1 success at retail stores, hotels, and conventions
- Create the engineering culture, tools, and best practices for the first 10+ hires
- Balance speed with scale — shipping fast while architecting for chain-wide rollouts

## Who You Are

- You’ve been an early engineer (seed/Series A) at a startup and built v1 → vX products
- Full-stack or back-end strength; comfortable moving between systems, APIs, and infra
- You know the difference between shipping code and shipping transformation
- You’ve owned critical systems where uptime and reliability meant real-world impact
- You thrive on ambiguity and can build in weeks what others scope in quarters
- You want to be measured by impact: robots deployed, revenue generated, customers transformed

What Success Looks Like

- Month 1: Ship features that directly power the first 20+ deployments
- Month 3: Own the technical backbone for 100+ live robots in the field
- Month 6: Build the systems and team that let us scale nationwide rollouts

## Compensation

- Base salary: $225K–$300K
- Equity: Equity in a profitable, fast-growing company

## Why This Role Matters

Sales sells the vision. Deployment delivers the transformation. As the Founding Engineer, you build the engine that makes both possible. Every successful deployment isn’t just revenue — it proves that humanoids are the future of business operations.

If you want to define the technical DNA of a profitable, fast-growing company and own the upside of equity in a generational business, let’s talk.

## About gerra.com

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Gerra builds the data infrastructure for Physical AI, originating, licensing, and developing proprietary datasets for quant funds, AI labs, and robotics teams.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Early Stage; funding rounds not disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (with additional operations in Los Angeles, CA)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Technology, Information and Internet; Data Infrastructure for Robotics and AI
- **Target Customers**: B2B – quantitative hedge funds, AI research labs, humanoid robotics companies, and enterprises deploying robots at scale.
- **Mission / Purpose**: “Build the data layer for physical AI” – enable embodied AI that can operate reliably in the real world by providing high-quality, multi-modal training data.

## Products & Services
- **Market Intelligence**: Proprietary alternative-data signals for systematic funds – covering social, sports, and the compute markets behind AI. [gerra.com](https://www.gerra.com/)
- **Software & Company Data**: Real workflow, codebase, and full-company data for training and evaluating models and agents, including runnable environments with verified reward signals. [gerra.com](https://www.gerra.com/)
- **Physical AI Datasets**: Multi-modal robot data from Gerra’s own fleet – teleoperation demonstrations, human demonstration (first-person video + full-body 3D motion capture), and sensor recordings (vision, depth, proprioception, IMU, audio) across 15+ robot morphologies. [gerra.com](https://www.gerra.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding not disclosed; internal metrics include 1B+ frames collected, 50K+ demo hours, 20+ robot morphologies. [gerra.com](https://www.gerra.com/)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Not publicly listed; clients include “leading humanoid companies, research labs, and enterprises.”
- **Growth Signals**: 12.5% YoY headcount growth (3 employees as of latest data); active hiring across engineering, operations, and go-to-market roles. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/gerra)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Data Sources**: Operates its own robot fleet and holds exclusive multi-year licenses to private data platforms that no one else can sell. [gerra.com](https://www.gerra.com/)
- **Hardware-Synchronized Sensor Fusion**: Sub-millisecond synchronization across all modalities, producing data ready for imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and foundation-model pre-training. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/gerra)
- **Expert-Verified Labels**: Success/failure annotations with detailed taxonomy, ensuring high-quality training signals.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale data collection across more robot morphologies and real-world environments (retail, warehouses, public spaces).
- Deepen partnerships with humanoid companies and AI labs to drive the next generation of physical AI systems.
- Expand proprietary datasets for quant funds and enterprise AI use cases.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Compensation**: “Pay top of market cash” with substantial equity grants (0.10%–0.45% for engineering roles) and regular refresh opportunities. [gerra.com/careers](https://www.gerra.com/careers)
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision; unlimited PTO (genuinely expected to be used); top-tier equipment and home office budget.
- **Work Environment**: Fully remote team (per Built In profile), with some roles based in San Francisco or Los Angeles. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/gerra)
- **Impact**: Early employees get meaningful ownership and the chance to build the data layer for a transformative industry (Physical AI).

## Sources
1. [gerra.com](https://www.gerra.com/)
2. [gerra.com/careers](https://www.gerra.com/careers)
3. [linkedin.com/company/gerra](https://linkedin.com/company/gerra)
4. [builtin.com/company/gerra](https://builtin.com/company/gerra)

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