Company Overview:
- Robot foundation models learn physical behavior from human demonstration, and real-world data has become a critical bottleneck in embodied intelligence.
- Provides real-world training data to frontier AI labs and robotics companies, scaling multiple 7 to 8 figure contracts in parallel.
- Our network of 150,000+ users captures egocentric human data across all continents, and we run collection, processing, QA and annotation in-house, end to end.
- Our mission is to advance embodied AGI through real-world data and research.
- We're assembling a unique team of exceptional and relentless individuals, willing to dedicate themselves fully to the achievement of this mission.
Founding Engineer Responsibilities:
- Own some of the most critical systems in the company.
- Manage multiple platforms with 150K+ users collecting data including B2C, B2B, mobile app, and internal systems.
- Develop anti-fraud and automated QA systems.
- Own the quality of what we deliver every day.
- Maintain backend architecture and operations efficiently as we scale to 1M+ users.
- Manage payout systems moving daily high volumes of money across 100+ countries.
- Serve live production data to multiple top 5 AI companies with hard deadlines and specs.
Candidate Profile:
- Graduates from top French engineering schools, ideally through classes préparatoires, with 6 months to 3 years of experience.
- More experience is welcome when the track record justifies it.
- We look for outliers with outstanding achievements and grit.
- Exceptional individual achievement such as elite rankings at competitions or concours, hackathons won, systems you hacked, or projects at real scale or revenue.
- You live for programming.
- Thousands of contributions on GitHub this year.
- Active open-source participation such as frequent late-night commits on weekends on your own.
- You treat agentic engineering as a craft.
- You research the field daily and always run a SOTA customized harness.
- You're willing to sacrifice to be part of an extraordinary journey, working at the center of the embodied AGI frontier alongside the biggest AI labs.
- Bonus: experience developing mobile apps for iOS or Android.
Culture:
- Small core team by design.
- Y Combinator and SF high-performance culture and pace.
- European founders, team across SF and Europe.
- High accountability.
- Features owned end to end including design, build, ship, and support.
- Tokenmaxxing ethos.
- Uncapped frontier models, fleets of agents, shared skills and KB.
- Multiple features shipped per day, output of an org 50 times the size.
- Constant proactive communication including Slack, huddles, and short stand-ups.
- No black box.
- We hold a higher bar for ourselves than anyone could hold for us.
Technical Stack:
- Python, FastAPI, Postgres, React, Docker, AWS and S3, versioned REST APIs.
- Mobile: React Native and Expo, one codebase across iOS and Android, ARKit and ARCore under it for egocentric video capture.
- RGB+IMU sync, MCAP out.
- Multimodal pipelines at petabyte scale including ingestion, VLM QA and labeling, fraud detection, stereo depth and hand reconstruction, delivery in MCAP and LeRobot.
- We build our own custom platforms, not assembled SaaS, including contributor app, commercial platform, mobile app, internal, and payouts.
What We Offer:
- Founding engineer in one of the fastest-growing Y Combinator startups.
- Remote, based in France.
- Paris office opening soon.
- Direct work with the founders.
- Direct work with top AI labs.
