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title: 'Lead AI Native Engineer at RoboForce'
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# Lead AI Native Engineer at RoboForce

- **Company:** RoboForce
- **Location:** Milpitas, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-06-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/roboforce/jobs/5255989008

## Job description

## 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 green card support for qualified candidates.
- Lunches and dinners, a fully stocked kitchen, and regular team-building events.

## About RoboForce

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: RoboForce builds scalable, deployable Physical AI-powered Robo-Labor for demanding industrial environments such as mining, manufacturing, solar, data centers, and shipping.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; total disclosed funding conflicting: $15M per LinkedIn vs. $52M per company website timeline)
- **Headquarters**: Milpitas, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Leo Ma (Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Robotics Engineering (industrial automation, AI robotics)
- Target customers: B2B, industrial enterprises in mining, manufacturing, solar energy, data centers, and shipping/logistics
- Mission/purpose: “Robotics for Humanity” – solving human needs by extending human potential through Physical AI, automating “Dull, Dirty, Dangerous” work.

## Products & Services
- **TITAN**: General-purpose AI robot for demanding industrial environments; multiple variants (TITAN-T launched, TITAN-W launched, TITAN prototype completed).
- **Robo-Labor Workforce**: Deployable AI-powered robotic workforce for repetitive, precise, and heavy-duty workflows.
- **RF-Net v1**: Robotic foundation network (AI/software layer for fleet learning).
- **Market Solutions**: Tailored offerings for Solar (outdoor construction/inspection), Mining (hazardous environments), Manufacturing, Data Center (AI infrastructure operations), and Shipping (container movement/port logistics).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – conflicting reports:
  - $15.0M total (two Seed rounds in 2025, per LinkedIn)
  - $52M new funding (per company website timeline for 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: YZi Labs (lead), Myron Scholes, Gary Rieschel, Jerry Yang, Carnegie Mellon University.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: 32 employees (+168.8% YoY, per LinkedIn)
  - 10,000-unit robot LOI secured (2024)
  - First commercial pilot signed (2024)
  - New HQ office and WEF Technology Pioneer award (2026)
  - TITAN design v1 completion, prototype, and TITAN-W launch (2026)
  - Featured in Jensen Huang’s GTC keynote (AI-Centric Design highlight)

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-Centric Design**: Robots built to improve with every deployment; 3-5× improvement over existing solutions.
- **Form-Factor Agnostic**: Focus on solving human needs rather than emulating human form – diverse hardware shapes optimized for specific tasks.
- **Institutional Backing**: Founders and team from CMU, UMich, Amazon Robotics, Google, Waymo, Cruise, Tesla Robotics, ABB, Apple.
- **Early Traction**: Pre-orders (LOI for 10,000 units) and commercial pilots already in place.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale deployment of Robo-Labor across multiple industrial verticals (solar, mining, manufacturing, data centers, shipping).
- Advance AI-native robotics through continuous fleet learning (RF-Net v1) and Nvidia ecosystem integration.
- Expand physical infrastructure (new HQ) and grow engineering/AI research teams.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Imagination leads the way” and “Great robots built by great people” – emphasis on creativity, joy, and making life better through real tools.
- **Work Model**: On-site in Milpitas, CA (all current open roles are in-office).
- **Engineering Focus**: Heavy investment in AI, robotics software/hardware, and foundation models; roles span AI Research, Robotics Software, Hardware, and Data Operations.
- **Trajectory**: Fast-growing startup (168% headcount growth YoY) with early revenue signals and top-tier backers; opportunity to work on cutting-edge Physical AI from the ground floor.

## Sources
1. [roboforce.ai](https://www.roboforce.ai/)
2. [roboforce.ai/about-us](https://www.roboforce.ai/about-us)
3. [roboforce.ai/careers](https://www.roboforce.ai/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/roboforce-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/roboforce-ai)
5. [greenhouse.io/roboforce](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/roboforce/jobs/4817535008)

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