Build AI is the data hyperscaler for Physical AI. We're vertically integrated across hardware, manufacturing, logistics, collection, and model training to scale the physical labor dataset orders of magnitude faster than anyone in the world.
Job SummaryWe’re hiring a software engineer to build the products the on-the-ground scaling teams live in. Your users are the people standing up collection in factories and job sites. If a site cannot collect more tomorrow because the software is in the way — tasking, device health, local tooling, site standup — that is on you.
Key ResponsibilitiesBuild internal products for collection ops: tasking, site standup, device inventory, shift tracking, and local tooling that works with bad connectivity
Sit with ops and watch where they lose hours; ship software that removes it, then measure hours of useful collection per person
Make standing up a new site or country a repeatable product, not a custom process each time
Produce site-health views: what’s recording, what’s failing, what’s stuck in upload — so field leads and SF engineering share one picture
Work with data infrastructure and marketplace incentives so field tools connect to ingest and pay
Travel or embed with field teams when that is what it takes to get the product right
Strong generalist software engineer who likes shipping product for operators, not only backend services
Comfortable with messy real-world ops and 0→1 tools
Fine traveling or working closely with field teams
You measure success in whether scaling teams scale harder, not in polished abstractions
Time spent embedded with field, ops, logistics, or deployment teams
Experience standing up tools in new sites or countries
Marketplace, incentive, or ops-product background
Linux/Python and comfort debugging hardware-adjacent field issues
Competitive pay
Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
$500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office
Relocation support for those moving to San Francisco (Financial District) or Shenzhen (Nanshan)
Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
Daily lunch and dinner in our office
Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification
Unlimited Codex and Claude credits
Travel
Build believes in the Bitter Lesson. By taking a general approach of learning from humans, our addressable market is all physical labor.
We are a fully in-person team in San Francisco (Financial District) and Shenzhen (Nanshan), and greatly value engineering skills. We do not have boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical staff to contribute to both and work across disciplines as needed.
Build AI is an equal opportunity employer. We review every application. If you do not meet every bullet, still apply. Questions: [email protected]
Skills Required
- Strong generalist software engineering skills
- Experience shipping product for operators, not only backend services
- Comfort working with messy real-world operations and 0-to-1 tools
- Willingness to travel or work closely with field teams
- Experience embedded with field, operations, logistics, or deployment teams
- Experience standing up tools in new sites or countries
- Marketplace, incentive, or operations-product experience
- Linux and Python experience
- Comfort debugging hardware-adjacent field issues
What We Do
Build AI is a public benefit corporation and data hyperscaler for Physical AI. It integrates hardware manufacturing, logistics, data collection, and model training to scale egocentric physical-labor datasets for researchers and labs. Its mission is to solve physical labor and unlock human potential, advancing robotics and physical superintelligence. The company operates in San Francisco and Shenzhen and develops economically useful human-data infrastructure.
