# Founding Engineer: Manipulation at Intelligence Factory

- Company: Intelligence Factory (YC P26)
- What the company does: Human Intelligence for Robots. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://intelligence-factory.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: New York, NY, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $80K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-04-29
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/intelligence-factory/jobs/gTQaSpW-founding-engineer-manipulation
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/intelligence-factory-founding-engineer-manipulation/

## About the role

As founding engineer, you'll own the model pipeline end-to-end. You'll have $750K in compute credits across Azure, AWS, and GCP, NVIDIA Inception perks, and a bespoke data pipeline already running. Our culture is built on honesty and a willingness to fail fast. If you see yourself fitting here, please apply.

## What they're looking for

- Own the train-test-deploy loop: curation, training runs, evaluation, deployment
- Select and tune architectures for our foundation model
- Collaborate with research organizations
- Set technical direction for the model team

Tags: Engineering