Jobs at Standard Bots

Lead firmware architecture and development for Bolt’s autonomous mobile robot base, including board bring-up, motor control, power and battery systems, sensors, communications, diagnostics, and testing. Partner with hardware and cross-functional teams, establish engineering standards, debug system-level issues, guide production readiness, and mentor embedded engineers through prototype and fleet deployment.

Lead functional safety for collaborative industrial robots, owning safety cases, architecture, verification, certification plans, and third-party assessor relationships. Develop safety-by-design practices with hardware, firmware, and test teams; perform hands-on hardware validation and fault injection; and hire and mentor functional safety engineers. The role requires expertise in machinery and functional safety standards, hazard analysis methods, robotics certification, and the ability to evaluate schematics and firmware architectures.

Develop new B2B business and manage client, integrator, and channel relationships across manufacturing, logistics, and industrial sectors. Lead the full sales cycle, align customer needs with robotics solutions, tailor technical demonstrations and proposals, close deals, achieve revenue targets, attend industry events, and provide market feedback to engineering and product teams.

Develop new business and manage client relationships across manufacturing, logistics, and industrial sectors. Lead the full sales cycle from prospecting through closing, build relationships with clients and channel partners, tailor robotics solution demos and proposals, attend industry events, provide market feedback, and achieve revenue targets. The role requires strong B2B sales experience, knowledge of robotics and automation, and the ability to communicate technical concepts to nontechnical audiences.

Design, build, and test mechanical components and assemblies for an autonomous mobile manipulation robot. Responsibilities include SolidWorks design, engineering drawings, prototyping, first-pass structural analysis, fixtures, cable routing, BOM and PDM maintenance, and hands-on robot assembly and testing. The role collaborates with electrical, software, and test teams in a fast-moving, on-site environment.

Own mechanical subsystems for an autonomous mobile manipulation robot from concept through production release. Responsibilities include mechanical design, structural analysis, FEA, tolerance studies, DFM, prototyping, subsystem testing, manufacturing support, design reviews, and mentoring. The role focuses on chassis, drivetrain, suspension, wheel modules, battery packaging, control boxes, thermal management, cabling, and safety hardware.

Lead the mechanical architecture and design of an autonomous mobile manipulation robot platform, including its chassis, drivetrain, suspension, battery packaging, control box, and arm interface. Perform detailed CAD, analysis, tolerance studies, and design-for-manufacturing work; lead prototype builds, testing, certification support, and production release. Mentor mechanical engineers, run design reviews, and collaborate with software, electrical engineering, safety, manufacturing, and product teams.

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with a major robotics customer, responsible for debugging and improving realtime robot-control systems, SDKs, APIs, ROS 2 integrations, and robot controllers. The role combines customer technical leadership, production incident resolution, software delivery, reliability engineering, and platform generalization. It requires extensive onsite work in the San Francisco Bay Area, with recurring travel to New York.

Design and own automated test suites and hardware-in-the-loop infrastructure for controls and industrial integration. Exercise industrial protocols (Modbus, EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT, PROFINET), build PLC/protocol simulators and safety-system validation, and collaborate with software and applications engineers to validate integrations in real time. Deliver maintainable test code, fixtures, and reviews for protocol compliance and CI/CD pipelines.

Execute manual regression, smoke, exploratory, and release-candidate testing across robot control software, teach pendants, core workflows, and physical six-axis robots. Create and maintain test cases in Qase, document reproducible defects with logs and build details, collaborate with SDETs and systems test engineers, identify coverage gaps, and perform basic hardware recovery such as re-homing and resets.

Develop and optimize advanced AI models, training pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and debugging systems for robotics applications. Lead rapid experimentation, model architecture development, fine-tuning, performance optimization, and interpretability efforts. Collaborate with engineering teams on training infrastructure and deployment. The role emphasizes ML planning for autonomous vehicles, diffusion and autoregressive models, reinforcement learning, and translating research into production systems.

Develop and optimize AI models and training systems for robotics applications, focusing on design, implementation, and performance optimization of ML models.

Lead a West Coast team of Applications Engineers owning territory technical delivery from pre-sales POCs through post-install support. Act as senior escalation, stay hands-on commissioning robotic cells, set standards, run capacity planning and development, and travel up to 25% for key installs and escalations.

Design and build AI-enabled robotics proofs of concept, then deploy and integrate them in customer sites. Responsibilities include camera placement and calibration, model deployment, I/O configuration, on-site troubleshooting, and customer training. Collaborate with sales and engineering teams, produce documentation and integration guides, and feed deployment learnings back into product development.

Design, build, and deploy robotic automation solutions: develop proofs of concept, program and wire systems, install and commission robotic cells, train customers, run demos, and provide ongoing field support and integration feedback.

Lead discovery, strategy, and delivery for a core robotics software product area. Deeply engage customers and sites, define specs, iterate prototypes with designers and engineers, and deliver polished, production-ready features that integrate hardware and software.

Lead control quality for robotic products by designing, modeling, tuning, benchmarking, and validating control loops. Build safety-rated monitoring, debug cross-domain system issues, create test/diagnostic tooling, and advise/mentor teams to deliver stable, high-performance actuator motion.

Lead and coach a territory-based team of Applications Engineers while remaining hands-on commissioning robotic cells, designing solutions, reviewing integrations, and supporting complex installs. Own capacity planning, customer escalations, territory technical strategy, standards, playbooks, and collaboration with sales and product teams. Travel up to 25% for escalations and key customer engagements.

Own technical pre-sales for integration-heavy opportunities, scope turn-key robotic solutions, co-own deal close, then manage projects from contract award through Site Acceptance Testing, coordinating engineering, timelines, budgets, change orders, and customer expectations.