Standard Bots

Lead product innovation and new product development projects from concept through launch, managing cross-functional teams and driving revenue growth. | 7+ years experience in product innovation and project management with engineering background, PMP certified, and strong skills in product testing and development. | About Standard Bots Standard Bots is building the world's most accessible robotics platform to bring advanced automation into manufacturing and beyond, with intuitive hardware and software that empower human productivity. Overview Industrial hardware has been slow-moving and hard to iterate on for decades. We're trying to change that—bringing a consumer-grade pace of iteration and craft to a world that hasn't seen much of either. Most hardware products ship once and live with their decisions for years. Ours need to move fast, get into the field, get tested against reality, and improve—because a robot that doesn't hold up on a factory floor doesn't just frustrate a customer, it stops their production line. We're looking for a Hardware PM who is a builder first. Someone who wants to own a product from a blank sheet of paper through to a customer relying on it every day. Someone who understands the market well enough to know what's worth building, and who treats every prototype as a question to be answered rather than an answer to be defended. Someone with product sense and taste who can tell the difference between "ships" and "good.” What You Will Do Own product discovery, strategy, and delivery for a hardware product area from 0-1—from market insight and concept through to a shipped, supportable product. Build a sharp point of view on the market: who the customer is, what they're solving for today, where competitors fall short, and where the real opportunity is. Drive iterative testing loops - prototype, test against real-world conditions, learn, and revise quickly. Go deep on customer problems -talk to users, visit sites, understand how hardware actually gets used in the field. Define what we're building and why, with clear specs and requirements that engineers can run with. Work hands-on with mechanical, electrical, and firmware engineers to make trade-offs between cost, manufacturability, performance, and schedule. Collaborate with design and engineering to de-risk assumptions early, before they're expensive to fix. What We're Looking For 5+ years in hardware product management, ideally with hands-on experience building robotics products. Experience taking a hardware product from 0-1 - from early concept and market validation through to a released product. You're comfortable running iterative test-and-learn cycles with physical prototypes, not just software. You've built and shipped things you're proud of - not just managed process. You think critically about customer and market problems and can break down ambiguity into structured decisions. You have design and engineering sense and care about craft - you notice when something is off and it bothers you. You communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Nice to Have Mechanical engineering degree (or related discipline), with real hands-on design or build experience. Experience running structured tests on physical products - DOE, prototype validation, reliability or environmental testing. Familiarity with CAD tools (SolidWorks, Fusion 360), DFM/DFA and manufacturing processes (injection molding, sheet metal, CNC), and electromechanical systems, motors, or controls - enough to read a drawing, sanity-check tolerances (GD&T), and make informed trade-offs with engineers. Prior experience at a robotics, automation, or industrial equipment company, with a feel for how that market evaluates and buys products. Startup experience owning a product end-to-end across both hardware and software, without staying confined to one discipline. Compensation and Benefits The salary range for this role is $160,000 to $225,000, depending on experience. Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at Standard Bots. All Full-Time Employees are eligible for Employee Stock Options. We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees.

Drive high-impact technical projects across AI stack, build data pipelines and infrastructure, ship customer-facing products, and mentor engineers. | 5-10 years in complex software environments with backend and AI-adjacent experience, self-driven and generalist across AI stack. | About Standard Bots Standard Bot's mission is to significantly lower the barrier to entry to real-world automation, bringing the power of bits to the world of atoms and unlocking productivity for entire new industries and users. Our user-facing applications and APIs directly empower individuals and developers to jump directly into solving their challenges without the need for a background in robotics or automation. A relentless focus on simplicity and ease of use brings this revolutionary potential to new users and industries. What You'll Do We're looking for a seasoned, broad software engineer to join our AI team and build the systems our models depend on. Our AI researchers push the modeling frontier; this role owns nearly everything around it — the data that goes in, the infrastructure that trains and evaluates, the perception plumbing that connects cameras to the robot, and the product surfaces that put all of it in a customer's hands. The AI team is small, so the surface area is wide and the ownership is real. You may move between adding functionality to the data ingestion pipeline, a camera calibration bug, and a customer-facing feature in the same month — and you'll decide which of those matters most this week. Location and Benefits This role is hybrid with 3 days/week onsite in our NYC office, centrally located near Grand Central Station. The office is fully equipped with robots for demos and testing! Responsibilities Identify, scope, and drive high impact technical and user facing projects across the AI team's stack Ship the product surfaces that expose AI capabilities to users — the applications and APIs customers actually touch Mentor and advise other engineers as well as peers on technical and personal advancement Drive technical decision making and implementation through hands-on and technically deep work Plus ownership of one or more of these, depending on where your experience is strongest: Data pipelines: the flywheel for end-to-end AI — ingestion of teleop and demonstration data, labeling and curation tooling, dataset quality metrics Training and evaluation infrastructure: training pipelines, experiment tracking, GPU orchestration, model versioning, and deployment out to robots Perception integration: camera calibration, vision pipelines, and getting model outputs into the robot runtime reliably Tech Stack Front-end: React, TypeScript Back-end: Node.js, Python, C++ ML: PyTorch Kubernetes Docker GitHub Actions Who You Are We do not require a background in robotics. We're looking for engineers who are self driven, optimistic, creative, and resourceful. We have no requirements for a background in robotics, but find most success with engineers excited by the domain and looking to apply their expertise and experience in a new area. Our ideal candidate will be open to doing approximately 70% back-end and 30% front-end work with flexibility to sway more towards one or the other, depending on current projects and team needs. This is a generalist role first — but on the AI team, so we're looking for someone whose breadth already reaches into at least one AI-adjacent domain. Skills You'll Bring Experience: You have a strong technical background, including 5-10 years of experience working in complex environments AI-adjacent depth (strongly preferred): You have professional experience in at least one of ML Ops, data pipelines, or computer vision — for example building training or inference infrastructure, running large-scale data ingestion and curation, or shipping a vision pipeline to production. You don't need to have trained the models yourself. Growth + Optimism: You are excited by new domains and challenges, and eager to pick up new context to accelerate your impact Clarity of Communication: You excel in written and verbal communication and enjoy leveraging your skills to support your peers Impact Driven: You relentlessly seek user impact and value execution over technical idealism Proactive Simplicity: You prioritize simplicity, reliability, and velocity and proactively identify opportunities to improve proposed implementations or incumbent systems Excelling in Ambitious Environments: You excel in dynamic and ambitious environments, working with a diverse group of individuals and backgrounds Compensation and Benefits The base salary range for this role is $180,000 to $210,000, depending on experience. Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at Standard Bots. All Full-Time Employees are eligible for Employee Stock Options. We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees.