Founding Software Engineer

About this role

About the team

Mbodi builds the software layer that lets industrial robots learn new skills from instruction in minutes instead of weeks of hand-tuning. We work with Fortune 100 companies across manufacturing, logistics, and pharmaceutical labs, where we operate at the intersection of real-time robotics control, distributed agent orchestration, and compiled neural inference.

As one of our early engineers, you'll work on the core systems that translate camera input into a software representation of the physical world, orchestrate agents that reason over it, and compile learned skills into fast, deterministic robot behavior on the fly.

About the role

We're looking for a senior software engineer with deep intuitions about concurrency who is comfortable writing performance-critical code across the stack, from compiled C runtimes to Python agent orchestration and TypeScript frontends. You'll work directly with the founders on the core platform: the robot interface, the real-time world model, and the APIs that tie everything together.

The systems you build ship into customer environments. Correctness and uptime matter from day one, and you'll own your decisions end to end.

This role is based in New York City. We work a hybrid model with a minimum of three days per week in our SoHo office.

In this role, you will

• Design and implement the distributed execution layer that coordinates robot agents, validators, and skill runners across work cells
• Own the concurrency model for the platform, from scheduling and synchronization to failure recovery
• Build the real-world representation layer that turns camera input (objects, positions, states) into a live, persistent picture the system can reason over
• Write performance-critical runtime components in C that turn design-time agent reasoning into deterministic, low-latency execution
• Develop the TypeScript interfaces and APIs that surface robot status, task state, and live feedback to operators
• Instrument ...