# Staff Software Engineer at Standard Bots

- Company: Standard Bots
- What the company does: The all-in-one, most intuitive, most affordable industrial robots. Backed by General Catalyst.
- Company website: https://standardbots.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York City, NY
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $215K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-13
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/standardbots/386e370d-9166-44da-bcf7-c1951a347836
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/standard-bots-staff-software-engineer/

## About the role

We are looking for an exceptional Staff Software Engineer to own the most visible surfaces in the company: the AI agent that programs industrial robots through plain conversation, and the vertical applications built around it. This role tackles one of the most ambiguous, high-leverage challenges in applied AI: turning a successful LLM-powered demo into a product customers rely on. Our verticals are the real jobs customers hire robots to do, like palletizing, welding, and machine tending.

## What they're looking for

- LLM Product Engineering: Fluency in agent loops and tool calling, prompt and context management, structured output, model selection and fallbacks, and token/latency economics as engineering constraints
- Evaluation & Quality: You've built eval datasets, harnesses, or regression gates for nondeterministic systems and used them to make real launch decisions
- Design Sensibility: Strong opinions about user experience, held loosely: you prototype interactions before hardening them, sweat the details users actually feel, and partner naturally with design
- Excelling in Ambitious Environments: Your best work happened where the bar was public, leadership was close to the product, and the plan changed weekly
- Tech Stack Expertise: Fluency in TypeScript/Node.js is preferred, with range across our core stack (React, Python, C++, Kubernetes)

Tags: Software