Lambda Robotics Builds Autonomous Robots for AI Data Center Infrastructure

Lambda Robotics is developing autonomous robots designed to automate physical operations and maintenance inside data centers powering frontier AI. Based in San Francisco and part of Y Combinator's F26 batch, the six-person company builds hardware and software tailored for the demanding environments of modern AI infrastructure.

Autonomous Systems for Physical AI Infrastructure

As compute demands grow, data centers face operational bottlenecks in maintaining and monitoring physical hardware. Lambda Robotics targets these environments by deploying robots directly into customer facilities. The platform requires custom electromechanical hardware, real-time sensing, and multi-tenant fleet infrastructure capable of remote operation across distributed sites.

The engineering efforts are led by three co-founders with backgrounds in physical robotics and academic research. Co-founder Yim Ying, a full-stack robotics engineer from UPenn, previously developed dexterous hand manufacturing systems at CASIA as well as underwater robotic platforms. CTO Liam Zhong, also a UPenn GRASP Lab researcher, brings experience in computer vision, control, and reinforcement learning, having authored and reviewed research for CVPR. Co-founder Chen Peng studied physics at UPenn and conducted research at GRASP and Penn Medicine, following earlier experience as an investment analyst at BlackRock.

Building out the Founding Engineering and Go-to-Market Teams

To scale its physical deployments and core infrastructure, Lambda Robotics is adding founding team members in San Francisco.

On the software side, the company is seeking a Founding Software Engineer, Robotics Infrastructure. The role involves constructing multi-tenant architectures, remote deployment pipelines, and operational telemetry systems to control robot fleets operating at customer locations.

Hardware development spans electrical and electromechanical systems. An Electrical Engineer, Robotics will design power distribution, sensing, and signal infrastructure, working hands-on to debug prototypes. Concurrently, a Mechatronics Engineer will take mechanical and actuation designs from CAD through fabrication, assembly, wiring, and field testing.

On the commercial front, Lambda Robotics is hiring a Founding GTM lead. This position works onsite with customer operators to convert data-center maintenance problems into product requirements while managing customer discovery, pilots, and sales expansion.

Open Roles at Lambda Robotics

All open positions are onsite in San Francisco, CA.

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