# Staff Autonomy Engineer at Chef Robotics

- Company: Chef Robotics
- What the company does: Chef Robotics brings intelligent, adaptable automation to food manufacturers. Scale meal assembly with robots built for the real world. Backed by Kleiner Perkins.
- Company website: https://chefrobotics.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $180K to $280K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-12
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/ChefRobotics/1afd1c21-cfe7-4a0a-8288-963cc806a1a5
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/chef-robotics-staff-autonomy-engineer/

## About the role

If you’re excited about solving hard problems, creating real customer impact, and shipping systems that operate in production every day, not just in the lab, you’ll feel at home at Chef.

## What they're looking for

- Demonstrated experience shipping a complete autonomy or manipulation system to real-world deployment — not just simulation or research prototypes
- Deep technical expertise across at least two of: perception systems, visuomotor control, action prediction, sensor fusion, or motion planning
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in Python and C++, experience building production-quality, maintainable systems across research and deployment codebases
- Track record of technical leadership: driving architecture decisions, leading cross-functional projects, and raising the engineering bar on a team
- Comfort with ambiguity and urgency — able to set direction and execute in a fast-moving startup environment

Tags: Autonomy