
Founding Software Engineer
San Francisco, CA at a glance
- Rent
- #2 of 51$2,680/mo+46% vs US avg
- Weather
- #17 of 51295 mild days0 hot · 0 cold
- Income tax
- #1 of 5113.3% top rateCalifornia
What you need
- Strong architectural design ability
- Comfort across frontend, backend, robotics, AI
- Conviction in humanoid robots + AI inevitability
- Experience building agents or system design
What you'll do
- Design, test, and implement factory software components
- Build an autonomous factory system
- Create an agentic production system
- Develop software for product quality assurance
Almond is building America’s robot factory.
We are looking for a Software Engineer to design, test, and implement key software components for our factory operations centering around agents and automated inventory, production, logistics, and QA quality control. 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 an autonomous factory
- Building an agentic production system
- Building software to ensure product quality
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 (humanoids + AI) are inevitable and will soon take over the physical world
An ideal candidate has experience in at least one of:
- Building with agents
- Strong System Design principles
We are taking on a problem that requires extreme ownership and urgency. If you’re looking for a 9-5 this role is not for you.
Interview Process
- Introductory call
- Phone Screen
- On-site interview
- Assignment and experience deep-dive
- Collaborative roadmap & culture discussion
- Standard coding challenge
- System design interview
To apply, please submit:
- Your CV
- Why you want to work at Almond in your own words
- The hardware project you’ve done
Bonus for those who open a PR on our GitHub.
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About Almond
We build robots for physical AI. Meet Axol - A dual-arm robot designed for real-world tasks using AI.
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