# Pitch Your Own Role

**Company:** [Preload](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-companies/preload)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Work mode:** On-site
**Employment type:** Full Time
**Salary:** USD 150K–225K/yr
**Category:** Engineering
**Department:** Engineering
**Listed:** 2026-11-10

[View and apply on Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-jobs/preload/pitch-your-own-role-121724)

## What you need

- Track record of building real things, fast
- Comfort with ambiguity and owning problems end to end
- Genuine excitement about robotics and physical AI

## Job description

**About Preload**

Preload builds the data layer for physical AI. Robots learn mostly from video, but human interaction is much richer: touch, force, and muscle activity. We build a wearable multimodal stack (egocentric video, tactile gloves, EMG) to capture how people actually interact with the physical world, and turn it into datasets robotics teams can train on. We're a YC (F26) team of PhD founders from Johns Hopkins and Caltech with backgrounds at Neuralink, Paradromics, and other neurotech companies.

**Don't see your role? Pitch us.**

We're early, and some of our best hires won't fit neatly into a job description. If you're exceptional and believe you can help us build the data layer for physical AI, we want to hear from you, whatever your background.

**Areas where we'd love to hear from you**

-   Robotics, manipulation, and robot learning
-   Biosignals, neuroengineering, and wearable sensing
-   Hardware, mechanical design, and manufacturing
-   ML research, multimodal modeling, and data infrastructure
-   Surgery, clinical research, and medical devices
-   Operations, partnerships, and go-to-market

**How to apply**

In your application, tell us:

-   What you'd own at Preload and why it matters now
-   The most impressive thing you've built or done
-   What you'd accomplish in your first 90 days

**What we're looking for**

-   A track record of building real things, fast
-   Comfort with ambiguity and owning problems end to end
-   Genuine excitement about robotics and physical AI

**Why join**

Early, in-person team in San Francisco. You'll shape the product, the stack, and the culture from day one. Compensation depends on the role and experience.

## Other open roles at Preload

- [Summer 2027 Intern (Any Team)](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-jobs/preload/summer-2027-intern-any-team-121727) — San Francisco, CA
- [Mechanical / Soft-Goods Designer (Wearables)](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-jobs/preload/mechanical-soft-goods-designer-wearables-121725) — San Francisco, CA
- [Software Engineer, Data Platform](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-jobs/preload/software-engineer-data-platform-121721) — San Francisco, CA
- [Sensor Engineer (Wearables)](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-jobs/preload/sensor-engineer-wearables-121720) — San Francisco, CA
- [Robotics Scientist (Policy Learning)](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-jobs/preload/robotics-scientist-policy-learning-121719) — San Francisco, CA

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