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title: 'Penetration Tester / ML Data Collection at Autoroboto'
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# Penetration Tester / ML Data Collection at Autoroboto

- **Company:** Autoroboto
- **Location:** Mountain View, CA
- **Compensation:** $65k–$80k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2024-11-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/autoroboto/b4f97d8e-97d2-43fb-9f54-be7d949b6ee2

## Job description

## About

AutoRoboto is a consulting firm that specializes in engineering and management that has provided services for some of the largest tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. These services include mechanical, electrical, software design, data collection quality assurance, and testing of new hardware and software. We pride ourselves on being a small company able to be extremely flexible to customers ever changing demands.

## The Role

As a penetration tester, you’ll take a proactive, offensive role in cybersecurity by performing penetration attacks on existing digital systems. These tests might use a variety of hacking tools and techniques to find gaps that hackers could exploit. Throughout the process, you’ll document your actions in detail and create a report on what you did and how successful you were at breaching security protocols.

## Responsibilities

- Analyze attacks and perform reverse engineering to define vulnerabilities
- Planning and executing tests, documenting your methodologies, and creating detailed reports about your findings.
- Create new testing methods to identify vulnerabilities
- Identify security weaknesses - Pinpoint methods and entry points that attackers may use to exploit vulnerabilities or weaknesses

## Qualifications

- 2+ years experience in mobile testing, scientific lab work, or thorough debugging experience
- 1+ year experience in animation / game development
- Research or work experience in facial recognition
- Proficiency with Photoshop
- Photography advanced knowledge
- Experience using 3d printers and other maker space tools
- Good working knowledge of linux command line
- Quality Assurance experience
- Photography experience
- Critical thinker and creative problem solver
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Excellent communications skills and ability to document and share findings
- An ability to “think like the enemy” in order to combat the full range of techniques and strategies that hackers might employ, or even to anticipate new ones

## About Autoroboto

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: AutoRoboto is a cross-disciplinary engineering firm that turns cameras into sensors, providing mechanical, electrical, software, data engineering, and security services from prototype to mass production.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Consulting Firm)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Computers and Electronics Manufacturing; Engineering Services (Mechanical, Electrical, Software); Computer Vision & Machine Learning; Security & Biometric Testing
- **Target customers**: Large tech companies (including a top-five global tech firm as a 12-year client), consumer electronics manufacturers, AR/VR platform builders, robotics companies
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To turn camera input into reliable perception, taking machine learning and computer vision from the research lab to mass-market products at volumes exceeding one million units.

## Products & Services
- **Machine Learning & Computer Vision**: Taking perception ML from research to mass-market products, including gesture sensing, depth sensing, and biometric security. (Service)
- **Robotics & Teleoperation**: Designing custom robotic hardware, teleoperation rigs for VLA model training data, and automated calibration systems. (Service)
- **Data Engineering & Collection**: Running large-scale, real-world data collection pipelines with structured, validated datasets for model training. (Service)
- **Hardware & Software QA**: Validating camera-enabled devices across the full product lifecycle, from prototype to platforms used by hundreds of millions of people. (Service)
- **Manufacturing & Mechanical Consulting**: Custom test fixtures, production-line calibration, and guidance from prototype through final quality assurance. (Service)
- **Security & Biometric Testing**: Offensive security testing for camera-driven systems, including biometric and facial-recognition penetration testing. (Service)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private consulting firm)
- **Key Metric**: 1M+ units shipped to consumer scale; 100Ms of users on platforms tested; 12 years continuous work for a top-five tech company
- **Notable Clients/Partners**: One of the world’s five largest tech companies (12-year client across multiple teams). Past projects include a gesture-sensing consumer device, a depth-sensing AR platform, and biometric security for ML-powered products released to over a million consumers.
- **Growth Signals**: The company is actively hiring (5 open positions as of late 2025/early 2026) across data engineering, robotics, QA, and security. LinkedIn followers have grown +4.8% year-over-year.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Cross-disciplinary team under one roof**: Mechanical, electrical, and software engineering combined with data, QA, and security — enabling end-to-end development from prototype to mass production.
- **Deep expertise in camera-driven systems**: A singular focus on turning cameras into dependable sensors, a thesis applied across multiple verticals (perception ML, biometrics, factory-line calibration, security).
- **Proven track record at massive scale**: Over a million units shipped and platforms tested with hundreds of millions of users, demonstrating reliability at consumer scale.
- **Long-term client relationships**: A 12-year continuous relationship with a top-five global tech company, indicating deep trust and repeat business.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Growing the team across data engineering, robotics, QA, and security. Continuing to serve large tech clients while expanding into new verticals for camera-driven hardware and software.
- **Direction for growth**: Likely focused on expanding robotics and teleoperation capabilities (especially for VLA model training), data pipeline services, and biometric security testing as AI and camera-based systems proliferate.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: A small, flexible team (7 employees) that works on hard, cross-disciplinary problems for real products. The company prides itself on being able to adapt to “ever changing demands.”
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Centrally located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Likely on-site or hybrid given the hardware/robotics focus.
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Engineers get to work across every discipline — mechanical, electrical, software, data, and security — on products that ship to millions of users. The team includes alumni from Google, Amazon Lab126, Niantic, and other top tech companies.
- **Open roles (as of early 2026)**: Lead Penetration Tester, Penetration Tester III, Penetration Tester I, Technical Program Manager, Systems Integration Engineer.

## Sources
1. [autoroboto.io](https://autoroboto.io/)
2. [autoroboto.io/jobs](https://autoroboto.io/jobs/)
3. [autoroboto.io/portfolio](https://autoroboto.io/portfolio/)
4. [linkedin.com/company/autoroboto](https://www.linkedin.com/company/autoroboto)
5. [theorg.com/org/autoroboto](https://theorg.com/org/autoroboto)

## Other roles at Autoroboto

- [Mechatronic/Robotics Engineer or Systems Integration Engineer - Camera and Sensor Calibration](https://feeny.ai/job/mechatronic-robotics-engineer-or-systems-integration-engineer-camera-and-sensor-cfjd3f4s4dcw) — Mountain View, CA
- [Systems Integration Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/systems-integration-engineer-autoroboto-mountain-view-28wxk7g7nb66) — Mountain View, CA
- [Operations Associate - Data Collection](https://feeny.ai/job/operations-associate-data-collection-autoroboto-mountain-view-eedp2vnvqr81) — Mountain View, CA
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