Founding Robotics Software Engineer

About the role

Almond is building America’s robot factory. We are looking for a Robotics Software Engineer to design, test, and implement key software components for our humanoid arms, data collection, and AI. This role is ideal for an engineer excited about working across the full product lifecycle—from whiteboard sketches and prototypes to manufacturing and production.

Responsibilities

• Build the most capable 7 DoF arm available (human range of motion, high payload/weight ratio, etc.)
• Teach the arm to assemble itself

Requirements

• Strong architectural design skills
• Comfortable working across the stack and/or quickly learning relevant skills (frontend, backend, robotic control, AI)
• Strong conviction in the idea that general-purpose robots (humanoid-esque + AI) are inevitable and will soon transform the physical world

Skills

An ideal candidate has experience in at least one of the following:

• Building or using inverse kinematics (IK) solvers
• Building, modifying, or deploying the latest robotic Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model research (fine-tuning VLMs, building an online reinforcement learning workflow, etc.)
• Building really fast streaming or WebRTC applications
• Building VR apps