{"id":833444,"url":"https://alion.io/job/roboforce-lead-ai-native-engineer","title":"Lead AI Native Engineer","company":{"id":686554,"name":"RoboForce","domain":"roboforce.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/roboforce","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"C","score":55,"open_postings":16,"ghost_share":0.75,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"AI/ML","role_family":"AI/ML","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Milpitas, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":166000,"max_usd":326000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":26},"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Claude Code","optional":false},{"name":"Context Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Cursor","optional":false},{"name":"Function Calling","optional":false},{"name":"Knowledge Graph","optional":false},{"name":"Model Context Protocol","optional":false},{"name":"OpenAI Codex","optional":false},{"name":"Physical AI","optional":false},{"name":"Post-training","optional":false},{"name":"RAG","optional":false},{"name":"Tool Use","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-06-12T03:59:05Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-15","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T09:22:27Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":103,"trust":{"level":"ghost","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale","company_stale"],"days_open":103},"description":"Why RoboForce\nRoboForce is an AI robotics company developing Physical AI-powered Robo-Labor for dull, dirty, and dangerous work. The company’s robots are engineered for demanding industrial environments, with a focus on real-world deployment and scalability.\nWe are hiring a Lead AI Native Engineer to build RoboForce’s vertical agents and shared agent foundation. Reporting to the co-founder, you will turn frontier models into systems for strategy and engineering. This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you will write code, set architecture, and enable agent development-not lead People programs or organizational transformation.\nResponsibilities\nBuild vertical agents. Own end-to-end agents for high-value workflows across research, software, hardware, data, and operations-from problem definition through production use.\nEstablish the agent foundation. Build reusable primitives for models, tools, orchestration, context, memory, retrieval, permissions, human approval, and long-running execution.\nCreate the context layer. Connect agents to trusted data through APIs, pipelines, MCP servers, and integrations with clear provenance and access control.\nOwn evaluation and reliability. Build benchmarks, regression tests, tracing, monitoring, and failure-analysis loops across quality, latency, cost, security, and resilience.\nAdvance frontier agent usage. Evaluate new models, coding agents, SDKs, and patterns, then turn useful capabilities into maintainable systems rather than demos.\nSupport strategic initiatives. Help company leadership apply agents and analytical systems to market and customer intelligence, partnerships, fundraising, diligence, scenario analysis, and executive decisions.\nProvide technical leadership. Set architecture and engineering standards, review designs and code, and create reusable patterns for the technical team.\nRequirements\n5+ years in software engineering, applied AI, ML systems, or a related field, with strong zero-to-one technical judgment.\nExperience at a frontier AI lab, leading AI company, or comparable team working at the edge of current model capabilities.\nA track record shipping production agentic systems that real users depend on-not only prompts, prototypes, or demos.\nDeep experience with frontier model APIs, tool use, orchestration, context engineering, retrieval, memory, and multi-step workflows.\nExperience building evaluations, regression tests, observability, and production failure-analysis loops for AI systems.\nExceptional fluency with AI-native development workflows using Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, agent SDKs, or equivalent systems, with a rigorous understanding of where agents work and fail.\nStrong product judgment: able to turn an ambiguous decision or workflow into a useful, secure, measurable system.\nRequires 5 days/week in-office collaboration with the team.\nBonus Qualifications\nExperience with post-training, model evaluation, inference, or research infrastructure at a frontier lab or model company.\nExperience with MCP infrastructure, developer platforms, knowledge graphs, RAG, or secure enterprise integrations.\nBackground in robotics, autonomous systems, industrial automation, or another technically complex physical-world domain.\nBenefits\nCompetitive stock options/equity programs.\nHealth, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) plan.\nVisa sponsorship and green card support for qualified candidates.\nLunches and dinners, a fully stocked kitchen, and regular team-building events.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3477,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Stock options","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Robotics"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-12T17:41:26Z"}],"liveness":{"score":7,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.238,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":103,"expected_fill_days":34,"reasons":["conf:8","stale_co","ghost","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/roboforce-lead-ai-native-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/roboforce-lead-ai-native-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-23T16:03:23Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}