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Serves as Standard Bots’ first in-house legal hire, leading commercial contract drafting and negotiation across customers, suppliers, resellers, and partners. Builds contract playbooks and legal processes, advises on robotics safety, privacy, AI, defense compliance, employment, corporate matters, international expansion, strategic transactions, and IP. Manages outside counsel and legal risk while supporting business growth. The role is hybrid, requiring three days weekly onsite in Manhattan or Glen Cove, New York.

Develop and optimize advanced AI models, training pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and debugging systems for robotics applications. Lead rapid experimentation, model architecture development, fine-tuning, performance optimization, and interpretability efforts. Collaborate with engineering teams on training infrastructure and deployment. The role emphasizes ML planning for autonomous vehicles, diffusion and autoregressive models, reinforcement learning, and translating research into production systems.

Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close while building a scalable control environment and internal audit function. Lead PCAOB external audits, technical accounting under US GAAP, SEC reporting readiness, equity administration, inventory accounting, ERP implementation, and company-wide accounting policies. Partner with leadership, the board, audit committee, plant controller, and finance team while hiring and mentoring accounting staff. Improve close timelines, automate processes with AI, and support IPO readiness.

Own full-cycle recruiting for Standard Bots’ manufacturing organization, from outbound sourcing and multi-stage outreach through interviews, offers, and closing. Hire across hourly production, skilled trades, manufacturing engineering, quality, and plant leadership roles. Partner with manufacturing leaders on scorecards, leveling, compensation benchmarks, and interview design; maintain ATS data in Ashby; optimize recruiting messaging and processes; and deliver a strong candidate experience in a fast-growing startup environment.

Develop and optimize AI models and training systems for robotics applications, focusing on design, implementation, and performance optimization of ML models.

The Staff Software Engineer will drive technical strategy, lead complex projects, improve engineering standards, and mentor engineers across the organization, focusing primarily on back-end systems but maintaining full-stack awareness.

Own import/export operations and trade compliance for an industrial robotics manufacturer: manage customs filings, HTS classification, tariff strategy, freight coordination, denied party screening, export controls, and optimize freight and broker relationships to ensure compliant, cost-effective international movement.

Develop and own automated test suites, HIL rigs, and PLC/protocol simulators to validate controls and industrial integrations. Exercise fieldbus protocols and I/O, integrate safety systems into release validation, and collaborate with engineers to debug and hand off maintainable test code and fixtures.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will drive technical projects, advise leadership, mentor peers, and work with a focus on user impact.

Design and build AI-enabled robotics proofs of concept, then deploy and integrate them in customer sites. Responsibilities include camera placement and calibration, model deployment, I/O configuration, on-site troubleshooting, and customer training. Collaborate with sales and engineering teams, produce documentation and integration guides, and feed deployment learnings back into product development.