Founding Robotics Software Engineer

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, 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.

You will contribute towards:

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

At minimum, you should:

• Have strong architectural design
• Be comfortable working across the stack and/or quickly learning relevant skills (frontend / backend / robotic control / AI)
• Gave strong conviction in the idea that general purpose robots (humanoid-esque + AI) are inevitable and will soon take over the physical world

An ideal candidate has experience in at least one of:

• Building / using IK solvers
• Building / modifying / deploying the latest robotic VLA model research (fine-tuning VLMs, building an online RL workflow, etc.)
• Building really fast streaming / WebRTC
• Building VR apps

About the company

Our mission is to free humans from physical labor with robotics.

We imagine a future where robots handle the essential, repetitive work and humans are free to create, connect, and pursue what truly matters to them.

To build that future we’re starting from the ground up with hardware. Our first product is a California-designed and assembled humanoid arm. Surrounding it, we’re developing advanced controls, intuitive data collection, and a full AI stack that makes deployment effortless in real industrial environments. We’re proving it on our own assembly line first.