--- title: 'General Interest at Cobot' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/general-interest-cobot-santa-clara-wafddv9fmp5c' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-09' --- # General Interest at Cobot - **Company:** Cobot - **Location:** Santa Clara, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2023-07-25 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cobot/2814d2e3-33b7-4f5b-8cb1-6bcd59fbc705/application > If you don't find an open role that fits, please let us know how you'd like to help by sharing your resume here for future reference. We keep all resumes on file and will be in touch as we grow. Thank you for your early support. ## Job description If you don't find an open role that fits, please let us know how you'd like to help by sharing your resume here for future reference. We keep all resumes on file and will be in touch as we grow. Thank you for your early support. Cobot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let your recruiter know. To all recruitment agencies: Collaborative Robotics does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our employees. Collaborative Robotics is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. ## About Cobot ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Cobot (Collaborative Robotics) builds practical collaborative robots (cobots) designed to work safely alongside people in real-world environments, starting with its flagship robot, Proxie. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: Santa Clara, California, United States (secondary office in Seattle, WA) - **Founded**: 2022 - **Founders**: Brad Porter (CEO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Automation Machinery Manufacturing, Robotics, Healthcare logistics - **Target customers**: B2B – Enterprise and mid-market customers in healthcare, logistics, and facility management - **Mission or purpose statement**: "To build a new robotic future. A future where robots are a trusted extension of your surroundings. They work, adapt, and react around you. Not the other way around." ## Products & Services - **[Proxie](https://www.co.bot/)**: A mobile collaborative robot designed for material handling, asset tracking, and facility management in complex, human-centric spaces. Hardware with embedded AI and predictable behaviors. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metrics**: - **Total Funding**: $140M (Seed: $10M, June 2022; Series A: $30M, July 2023; Series B: $100M, April 2024) - **Annual Revenue**: ~$250K (early-stage, pre-revenue at scale) - **Employees**: ~132 (as of mid-2026), growing +103% YoY - **Notable Investors/Partners**: - Neo (Seed lead) - Sequoia Capital (Series A lead) - General Catalyst (Series B lead) - Bison Ventures, Industry Ventures, Lux Capital (Series B participants) - Advisor: Teresa Carlson (former AWS executive) - **Growth Signals**: - Public launch of Proxie in November 2024 - Rapid headcount growth (+103% YoY) - Talent sourced from Amazon Robotics, Meta, Tesla, Apple - Featured in AWS CEO keynote (2024) ## Competitive Advantages - **Founding team with deep robotics expertise** – Founded by Brad Porter, who helped scale Amazon Robotics to over 500,000 robots. - **Empathy-first design philosophy** – Robots that react to people, not vice versa, enabling safe deployment in crowded, dynamic environments without cages. - **Full-stack ownership** – In-house hardware, AI, safety systems, and software platform. ## Strategic Focus - **Healthcare and logistics** – Targeting high-value use cases like hospital material transport and warehouse collaboration. - **Scaling field deployment** – Building professional services and strategic account teams to support enterprise customers. - **Safety certification** – Actively hiring Staff Certification Lead and Staff Software Engineer, Safety to meet rigorous industry standards. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: "One without egos. Driven by empathy. With collaboration at its core." Emphasis on mission-driven work and cross-functional teamwork. - **Work policy**: In-office (Seattle and Santa Clara offices). No remote or hybrid options listed for most roles. - **Notable perks/engineering culture**: - Cutting-edge tech stack: Python, TypeScript, PyTorch, TensorFlow, ROS, Docker, Kubernetes, etc. - Strong safety engineering focus – unique opportunity to shape the safety paradigm in collaborative robotics. - Small but rapidly growing team (132 people) with high ownership and impact. - Alumni have gone to Google, Meta, Apple, Stack AV, Zipline – signaling a pedigree robotics talent pool. ## Sources 1. [co.bot (Official Website)](https://www.co.bot/) 2. [Cobot LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/co-bot) 3. [Built In – Cobot Profile](https://builtin.com/company/cobot) 4. [LeadIQ – Cobot Company Overview](https://leadiq.com/c/cobot---collaborative-robotics-inc/6398f5ce99142b48fd4f4cd7) 5. 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