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# Illustrator, Product (Contract) at Sunday Robotics

- **Company:** Sunday Robotics
- **Location:** Redwood City, CA
- **Employment:** contract
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-24
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sunday/f12c7f79-0fee-4b3b-89bc-de395284cff8

## Job description

Join Us in Building the Future of Home Robotics At Sunday, we're developing personal robots to reclaim the hours lost to repetitive tasks. We're focused on an ambitious goal to make generalized robots broadly accessible, enabling households to take back quality time. We have spent the last 18 months building a talented team, securing capital, and validating our technology. We are now seeking passionate individuals to join us in the next phase of our growth. If you are ready to apply your skills to the forefront of robotics innovation, we’d love to hear from you.

What to Expect You'll be the first illustrator to work with Sunday's product team. Memo, our home robot, is moving from beta to its first commercial release, and before our ML, hardware, robot software, and design teams write requirements for it, they need to agree on what Memo does in a real home, step by step. Your storyboards are how that agreement happens. You'll turn written user journeys into frame sequences that an engineer can read in a meeting and point at: here is where the robot leaves the charger, here is where the user taps consent, here is where a person steps in. This is a scoped engagement of roughly six weeks starting the week of November 9, with the option to extend into customer-facing illustration work as R1 approaches launch.

## What You'll Do

- Translate 4–6 written user journeys into illustrated storyboards of 6–10 frames each, roughly 40–60 frames total, with revisions per journey
- Draw Memo, people, and home interiors (bedrooms, hallways, laundry areas) from reference photos of the robot
- Work in loose, clean black-and-white line art with accent color markings, optimized for explaining ideas
- Deliver frames as PNG or PDF sized for slides, plus editable source files, into the product team's shared Notion page
- Take feedback from product, design, and robot software reviewers and turn it around quickly, flagging where a written journey is ambiguous or physically implausible before you draw it

## What You'll Bring

- A portfolio with at least one multi-frame sequence (storyboard, comic page, animatic, or explainer) where the story reads without captions
- Confident figure drawing and interior perspective, and the ability to keep a product's proportions consistent across frames from photo reference
- Speed: comfort producing a first pass of a full journey in a day or two and revising the same week
- Clear, prompt communication in an async, Pacific-time workflow
- Willingness to sign an NDA and a work-for-hire agreement; Sunday owns the output

## Nice to Have

- Storyboard or concept art experience for consumer hardware, appliances, vehicles, or robots
- UX storyboarding or customer-journey illustration for a product team
- Familiarity with Figma or FigJam for placing frames into flows
- Strong interest in robotics or smart home products

## What You're Not

- Someone whose strength is a single polished illustration rather than a sequence that tells a story
- Someone who needs a finished spec before starting; our journeys will still be settling while you draw the first one
- Someone who wants to set the product's visual identity; that work is owned by our design team, and these boards are internal

Engagement Details

- Contract, roughly six weeks from the week of November 9 through November 27, with possible extension
- Based in Redwood City or San Francisco, CA; in person for kickoff and reviews at our Redwood City office, otherwise async with one 30-minute sync per week
- Compensation: $35-45/hour (depends on experience)

At Sunday Robotics, we’re building technology shaped by real people — curious, creative, and diverse. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and consider all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply. Studies show that women and underrepresented groups often hold back unless they meet 100% of the criteria — we don’t want that to be the reason we miss out on great talent.

## About Sunday Robotics

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sunday Robotics builds Memo, an autonomous home robot that learns household chores through a proprietary Skill Capture Glove™ and data collected from real homes.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Redwood City, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2024 (founder dropped out of Stanford CS PhD in 2024 to start the company)
- **Founders**: Tony Zhao

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Consumer robotics, home automation, artificial intelligence
- **Target customers**: B2C – households (homeowners and families)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Giving people their time back for the things that matter most" by automating repetitive household chores.

## Products & Services
- **Memo (Autonomous Home Robot)**: A wheeled, single-armed robot designed to perform household tasks such as loading the dishwasher, folding socks, pulling espresso shots, and clearing tables. It uses AI trained on data from hundreds of real homes and features passive stability, compliant control, and a soft silicone shell for safety.
- **Skill Capture Glove™**: A low-cost (~$400) wearable glove that mirrors Memo’s kinematics. A distributed network of “Memory Developers” (over 2,000 gloves shipped) record themselves performing tasks in their own homes, generating training data that enables Memo to learn new skills without human tele-operation.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $1.15 billion (as of March 2026, Series B round)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $165 million (Series B, oversubscribed)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Coatue (lead, with Thomas Laffont joining the board), Bain Capital Ventures, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Tiger Global, Benchmark, Conviction, Xtal Ventures
- **Growth Signals**: Engineering team grew 3x, Research 4x, Data Operations 5x ahead of the Series B. Beta program launching in late 2026 with “Founding Families.” Memo already learns multiple skills in parallel (dishes, coffee, laundry). Public deployment is the stated focus, moving beyond demos.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unmatched iteration speed**: The company can move from in-the-wild data collection to model training and real-world evaluation faster than competitors.
- **Full-stack ownership**: Controls the entire stack – from the Skill Capture Glove and data collection pipeline to hardware design, manufacturing, and AI models.
- **Data moat**: Proprietary data from thousands of glove recordings and the robot fleet creates a flywheel that improves over time, while also benefiting from public datasets.
- **Safety-first design**: Memo has passive stability (won’t fall when power is cut), compliant control (limbs can be pushed safely), and a soft, cleanable silicone shell – making it safe for homes with children and pets.

## Strategic Focus
- **Real-world deployment over demos**: The Series B announcement explicitly states “No More Demos” – the company is shifting entirely to shipping Memo to households via a beta program in 2026.
- **Scaling skills**: Continuously expanding Memo’s Skill Library (new skills every month) and improving generalization so the robot works in homes it has never seen.
- **Manufacturing cost reduction**: Current hand-built cost is ~$20,000; target retail price will be at least 50% lower after large-scale manufacturing.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven culture**: The team is united by the goal of giving people back their time through helpful robotics. Core value: persistence.
- **Small, ambitious team**: 30+ engineers, designers, and researchers in Silicon Valley – offering high ownership and impact.
- **Cutting-edge robotics & AI**: Work on the full stack – from hardware mechanical design to imitation learning and world models. Founders have deep academic roots (ALOHA project, Stanford).
- **Open roles**: Hiring across Robotics, Hardware, Software, ML & Robotics Infra, Data Operations, and Product. Includes remote Memory Developer positions.
- **Office location**: Redwood City, CA (likely hybrid/on-site for most technical roles).

## Sources
1. [sunday.ai](https://www.sunday.ai/)
2. [sunday.ai/company](https://www.sunday.ai/company)
3. [sunday.ai/careers](https://www.sunday.ai/careers)
4. [sunday.ai/journal/series-b](https://www.sunday.ai/journal/series-b)
5. [baincapitalventures.com](https://baincapitalventures.com/insight/robots-finally-at-home/)

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