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title: 'Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure & Developer Tooling at Standard Bots'
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# Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure & Developer Tooling at Standard Bots

- **Company:** Standard Bots
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $170k–$210k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/standardbots/78a0305b-d274-4631-9c63-7e6b6bf58469

## Job description

## About Standard Bots

At Standard Bots, we're revolutionizing real-world automation by making robotic systems accessible to everyone. Our platform enables robots to tackle unprecedented challenges through an intuitive instruction interface, bringing the power of software automation to physical spaces.

📍 Location and Benefits

This role is hybrid with 3 days/week onsite in our NYC office, centrally located near Grand Central Station. The office is fully equipped with robots for demos and testing! This specific role will also spend ~4 days/month in our Glen Cove robotics facility.

## About the Role

We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure & Developer Tooling to lead and scale the core infrastructure and internal tooling that power our robot deployment and development lifecycle. This high-impact role blends distributed systems, DevOps, and developer experience to support mission-critical robotics operations. You’ll serve as the technical lead for infrastructure efforts and will likely lead 1–2 other engineers, with the opportunity to grow into a broader leadership role as the team expands.

You’ll own key initiatives that ensure our robots are securely deployed, monitored, and updated at scale, while also enabling fast and reliable development across the engineering org. This is a unique opportunity to shape the foundational systems of a fast-moving robotics company from the ground up.

In this role, you will:

- Lead Infrastructure Development:
- Design and implement scalable infrastructure for robot deployment pipelines
- Build and maintain systems for automated robot software updates and provisioning
- Develop robust CI/CD pipelines and environment management workflows
- Scale our multi-cloud infrastructure with an emphasis on:
- Robot fleet management and telemetry
- Secure robot-cloud communication
- Cloud resource cost efficiency and availability
- Own Observability and Reliability by implementing and evolving observability systems to:
- Monitor robot fleet health, uptime, and usage
- Track system performance and deployment success rates
- Detect, alert, and diagnose production infrastructure issues automatically
- Lead Developer Tooling Efforts:
- Build internal tools to improve developer workflows, testing, and release velocity
- Define and promote engineering best practices through tooling, automation, and documentation
- Support environment provisioning, local dev experiences, and standardized testing environments
- Drive Security and Compliance:
- Design and maintain secure infrastructure systems, including:
- Identity and access management (IAM), authentication, and secrets management
- Network security for robot-cloud interactions
- Incident response and security auditing tools
- Collaborate Across the Organization:
- Work closely with software engineers, QA, Solutions, and Assembly Tech teams to understand technical pain points and infrastructure needs
- Advocate for engineering efficiency and reliability through process and platform improvements

This role is a strong fit if you:

- Have 7+ years of software engineering experience, including leadership in DevOps and infrastructure projects
- Have a proven track record with CI/CD systems, distributed systems, and developer tooling
- Are experienced with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and Kubernetes
- Bring a strong understanding of security best practices in cloud-native environments
- Have experience implementing and scaling monitoring, logging, and alerting systems
- Are passionate about building platforms that support world-class engineering teams
- Have an interest in robotics and automation (robotics experience not required)

Tech Stack

- Python
- NodeJS / TypeScript
- React
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Postgres
- Cloudflare

Compensation and Benefits: The base salary range for this role is $170,000 to $210,000, depending on experience. Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at Standard Bots. All Full-Time Employees are eligible for Employee Stock Options. We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees.

## About Standard Bots

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Standard Bots is an American AI-native industrial robot manufacturer that builds affordable, easy-to-use six-axis robot arms designed and assembled in the USA.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series stage not publicly disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Glen Cove, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Evan Beard (Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Industrial Robotics / Manufacturing / AI
- **Target customers**: B2B — small to large businesses in manufacturing, machining, warehousing, and industrial automation
- **Mission**: "Propel human productivity through the world’s most accessible robots."

## Products & Services
- **Bolt**: Entry-level six-axis robot arm (900mm reach, 8kg payload) starting at $29,500. Designed for light-duty automation in tight spaces — pick & place, inspection, and assembly.
- **Spark**: Mid-range workhorse robot (1,300mm reach, 18kg payload) starting at $39,500. Built for machining, welding, finishing, pick & place, and inspection.
- **Thor**: Heavy-duty robot (2,000mm reach, 18kg payload) starting at $49,500. Includes Miller Auto Delta Weld package for welding applications. Built for bimanual tasks, palletizing, and heavy applications.
- **AI-Native Control Platform**: Robots are programmed through demonstration (no code, no PhD required). Foundation models generalize across variations. Real-time AI-driven torque control. Pre-built playbooks for common tasks, native integrations, simulator, and remote access dashboards.
- **Vision-Guided Inspection**: Automated defect detection with vision-guided checks.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Private company; funding details not publicly available
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Growth Signals**: Expanding manufacturing operations with goal to produce everything "from metal in to robots out" in America by 2027. Actively hiring across multiple engineering and operations roles. Growing product line with three distinct robot models (Bolt, Spark, Thor).

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native architecture**: First industrial robot joints designed for real-time AI-driven torque control; robots learn through demonstration rather than complex programming — "no PhD required."
- **Cost leadership**: Starting at $29,500, significantly cheaper than legacy industrial robot solutions while claiming 3x faster performance.
- **Vertical integration**: Designs nearly every part and assembles every final product in-house in Glen Cove, NY. Goal to manufacture everything in America by 2027.
- **Ease of use**: Program complex routines from a tablet; pre-built playbooks; no-code interface; vision-guided inspection with ±0.1 Nm repeatability.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling domestic manufacturing to full vertical integration (metal in to robots out) by 2027.
- Expanding AI capabilities with foundation models that generalize across unseen variations.
- Growing product line to cover light-duty (Bolt), mid-range (Spark), and heavy-duty (Thor) applications.
- Building out software, firmware, and AI teams to deepen the "AI-native" robotics platform.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Mission-driven environment focused on "making tomorrow easier" through accessible robotics. Emphasis on hardware, software, firmware, and electronics integration.
- **Work Policy**: Hybrid — employees typically work on-site 3 days a week. Offices in Glen Cove, NY; NYC; and Seattle.
- **Team Size**: ~130 total employees, ~25 in Product + Tech.
- **Engineering Focus**: Roles span embedded systems, motion planning, full-stack, firmware, AI research, and core platform engineering. Technology stack includes modern robotics and AI tooling.
- **Growth Stage**: Early-stage, fast-growing company (founded 2020) with significant manufacturing expansion plans. Opportunity to shape both product and culture.

## Sources
1. [standardbots.com](https://standardbots.com/)
2. [standardbots.com/about](https://standardbots.com/about)
3. [standardbots.com/careers](https://standardbots.com/careers)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/standard-bots)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/StandardBots)

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