Robots & Pencils
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How Robots & Pencils hires
Truth index
A 95/100
Median time to fill
40 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
20%
Reposted roles
0%
Robots & Pencils scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 5 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 20% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 40 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Robots & Pencils is a digital innovation firm and applied artificial intelligence engineering partner that specializes in custom software development, cloud modernization and agentic AI integration. It combines engineering with human-centered UI and UX design to build platforms, mobile applications and enterprise systems, and hires AI architects and delivery managers. The company is headquartered in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States.
News
Part 1: The AI Productivity Paradox - Your Teams are Already Changing Their Jobs, Have You Noticed?
AI has sped up work, but few companies can point to organization-wide return on investment (ROI). Everyone is calling this a paradox. This three-part series names the three things buying the tools never fixes on its own, the people, the organization, and
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Part 2: The AI Productivity Paradox - Common Mistakes in AI Organization Design (and how to fix them)
AI has sped up work, but few companies can point to organization-wide return on investment (ROI). Everyone is calling this a paradox. This three-part series names the three things buying the tools never fixes on its own, the people, the organization, and
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Part 3: The AI Productivity Paradox - Own the Foundation, Rent the Model
AI has sped up work, but few companies can point to organization-wide return on investment (ROI). Everyone is calling this a paradox. This three-part series names the three things buying the tools never fixes on its own, the people, the organization, and
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Higher Education has an AI Governance Blind Spot, and It's Happening in Every Classroom.
Robots & Pencils' new three-part series traces the fissure between the AI policies campuses write and the practices underway in the classroom, then names the standard to close it. Faculty are abandoning campus AI bans on their own, one syllabus at a time,
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Part 1: Classroom AI Governance - The Detection Default
Why faculty don't need another AI policy, they need agency This article is part of a three-part series examining how AI is reshaping trust between faculty, students, and the institutions governing them. Reading the full series is recommended. Part 2: The
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Part 2: Classroom AI Governance - The Silent Loop
Earning trust when AI is making decisions about you This article is part of a three-part series examining how AI is reshaping trust between faculty, students, and the institutions governing them. Reading the full series is recommended. Part 1: The Detecti
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Part 3: Classroom AI Governance - The Collision Point
Where faculty agency meets student trust his article is part of a three-part series examining how AI is reshaping trust between faculty, students, and the institutions governing them. Reading the full series is recommended. Part 1: The Detection Default P
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Tienes treinta segundos. Que cuenten.
To read this blog in English, click here. "Responsible for developing scalable cloud applications using AWS." Esa frase no me dice nada, no porque esté mal escrita, sino porque podría pegarla en cien hojas de vida distintas y encajaría igual de bien en to
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Character-Driven AI Agents Part 2: Guardrails
Miss part 1? Check it out here: Putting the Fun in FAQs A character gets people to try your agent once. Guardrails are what get them to trust it the second time. Frankie Two-Phones needed both, and building the second half turned out to be the harder job.
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Character-Driven AI Agents Part 1: Putting the Fun in FAQs
Have you ever been the point person for hundreds of people at work? The one everybody comes to, no matter how many docs you write, how many decks you present, how many times you say "it's in the FAQs"? You write the instructions. You post the announcement
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Robots & Pencils over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
181
Postings analysed
77
Stack modernity
84/100AI adopter
Languages
Python68%
SQL17%
JavaScript17%
TypeScript16%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch12%
React.js9%
AWS Strands Agents9%
TensorFlow9%
Databases
Amazon Redshift16%
PostgreSQL16%
Snowflake13%
Google BigQuery10%
Cloud & platforms
AWS95%
Azure31%
Kubernetes29%
Amazon SageMaker21%
AI & ML
Claude77%
LLM51%
Llama1%
Mistral1%
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181 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$200k
Typical range
$100k – $275k
Open positions
16
16
Jobs
Senior
25%
Staff
25%
Principal
6.3%
Architect
43.8%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 4 | $190k | $165k – $210k |
| Staff | 4 | $168k | $100k – $210k |
| Principal | 1 | $270k | $270k |
| Architect | 7 | $228k | $151k – $275k |
Highest paying role
VP, Solutions Architect - AWS
$275k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Robots & Pencils
By role, level and city, against the market · 16 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
87/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
32
14 opened / 11 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
39 days
faster than 33% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
10/11/2026
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
29% ▲
DevOps
16% ▲
Product
14% ▼
Solutions
12%
Data Science
9% ▲
Backend
7% ▼
Actively hiring for AI/ML (+10 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Ray to stack
Oct 2026
Added OpenTelemetry to stack
Oct 2026
Added Reranking to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Cleveland
Sep 2026
New location: Canada
Sep 2026
Added Threat Modeling to stack
Sep 2026
Added Shift-Left Security to stack
Sep 2026
Added Shift-Left to stack
Sep 2026
Added OWASP Top 10 to stack
Sep 2026
Added Prometheus to stack
Sep 2026
Added Grafana to stack
Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
8
Hiring now
3
Countries
5
Busiest office
Lviv
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Chagrin Falls
United States
HQ
Lviv
Ukraine
Regional office
Lviv
1 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for AI/ML
Calgary
Canada
Regional office
Calgary
1 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 100% remote 50-200 est. staff $100k Avg Salary
hires for DevOps
Seattle
United States
Regional office
Canada - Remote
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 100% remote 10-50 est. staff $174k Avg Salary
hires for DevOps
Cleveland
United States
Regional office
Cleveland
1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Regional office
Argentina
Bogotá
Colombia
Regional office
LATAM - Remote
Toronto
Canada
Regional office
Toronto
Earlier presence
Houston, United States
Jobs
$166k – $228k per year • Remote (United States) • 8+ years exp • Master's Degree
Python
ABAP
SAP BTP
Databases
PostgreSQL
Snowflake
Apache Kafka
Google BigQuery
Amazon Redshift
BigQuery
AI/ML
Cursor
Claude
Spark
MLFlow
Vertex AI
dbt
Prefect
TensorFlow
PyTorch
LLM
Hugging Face
Amazon SageMaker
Feature Store
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
GitHub Actions
CloudFormation
Pulumi
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
AWS Lambda
Amazon EventBridge
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
GDPR
HIPAA
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Apply
≈ $80k – $153k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Canada) • 7+ years exp
Python
Cursor
Claude
Claude Code
Quantization
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
DevOps
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Apply
≈ $86k – $181k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Canada) • 7+ years exp
Python
Cursor
Claude
Claude Code
Quantization
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
DevOps
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Apply
$120k – $165k per year • Remote (United States) • 5+ years exp
Python
SQL
Cursor
LangGraph
LangChain
Claude
Claude Code
AI Agents
AWS Bedrock
RAG
Ray
Amazon SageMaker
LLMOps
AWS Strands Agents
LLM Guardrails
Machine Learning
DevOps
OpenTelemetry
AWS CDK
Prometheus
CI/CD
AWS
Grafana
Amazon S3
IAM
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon Kinesis
Apply
$160k – $190k per year • Remote (United States, Canada) • 5+ years exp
Claude
AI Agents
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM Guardrails
DevOps
Azure DevOps
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
GitHub
Management
Confluence
Jira
Agile
Scrum
Kanban
Apply
$166k – $228k per year • Remote (United States) • 8+ years exp • Master's Degree
Python
ABAP
SAP BTP
Databases
PostgreSQL
Snowflake
Apache Kafka
Google BigQuery
Amazon Redshift
BigQuery
AI/ML
Cursor
Claude
Spark
MLFlow
Vertex AI
dbt
Prefect
TensorFlow
PyTorch
LLM
Hugging Face
Amazon SageMaker
Feature Store
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
GitHub Actions
CloudFormation
Pulumi
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
AWS Lambda
Amazon EventBridge
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
GDPR
HIPAA
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Apply
$160k – $190k per year • Remote (United States, Canada) • 5+ years exp
Claude
AI Agents
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM Guardrails
DevOps
Azure DevOps
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
GitHub
Management
Confluence
Jira
Agile
Scrum
Kanban
Apply
$200k – $270k per year • Remote (United States, Canada) • 10+ years exp
Claude
DevOps
AWS
Apply
≈ $82k – $162k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Canada) • 12+ years exp
Python
SQL
Cursor
Claude
Fine-tuning
Embeddings
Prompt Engineering
Function Calling
AI Agents
AWS Bedrock
LLM
RAG
Hallucination
LLM Guardrails
Multi-Agent Systems
Tool Use
DevOps
AWS
Apply
≈ $119k – $211k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • 5+ years exp
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Copilot
Cursor
LangGraph
LangChain
Claude
Claude Code
Fine-tuning
Function Calling
AI Agents
AWS Bedrock
RAG
Amazon SageMaker
AWS Strands Agents
Human-in-the-Loop
Context Engineering
LLM Guardrails
Agentic Workflows
Tool Use
DevOps
AWS
AWS Lambda
Apply
≈ $84k – $177k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Canada) • 6+ years exp
Python
JavaScript
Node JS
DynamoDB
OpenSearch
AI/ML
Claude Code
Model Context Protocol
Embeddings
Prompt Engineering
Function Calling
AI Agents
Langfuse
LangSmith
AWS Bedrock
LLM
RAG
AWS Bedrock AgentCore
LLM Guardrails
Agentic Workflows
Multi-Agent Systems
DevOps
AWS
Docker
Platform Engineering
AWS Lambda
Amazon S3
Amazon EventBridge
AWS Step Functions
API Gateway
Apply
≈ $74k – $161k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Canada, United States) • 5+ years exp
Claude
AI Agents
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM Guardrails
DevOps
Azure DevOps
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
GitHub
Management
Confluence
Jira
Agile
Scrum
Kanban
Apply