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Intelligence Factory
Human Intelligence for Robots
Founding Engineer: Manipulation
$80K - $200K
•
0.10% - 2.50%
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New York, NY, US
Job type
Full-time
Role
Engineering, Robotics
Experience
Any (new grads ok)
Visa
Will sponsor
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Yash Sinha
Founder
About the role
We're building foundational models for general purpose manipulation. Our data infrastructure allows us to generate rich, multi-modal human demonstration data at exponential scale.
We are using this data to train general-purpose manipulation models that work reliably across tasks, objects, and robot embodiments. We are live in deployment across multiple verticals.
As founding engineer, you'll own the model pipeline end-to-end. You'll have $750K in compute credits across Azure, AWS, and GCP, NVIDIA Inception perks, and a bespoke data pipeline already running.
What you'll do:
Select pre-training architectures for our foundation model
Own the train-test-deploy loop: curation, training runs, evaluation, deployment
Collaborate with research organizations
Set technical direction for the model team
You should have:
Experience implementing models end-to-end on robots, or research experience in VLAs, world models, or imitation learning
Proof of decision-making with incomplete information
Extremely competitive nature
A track record that shows you genuinely want to see robots deployed in the real world - projects, research, or competitions
Our culture is built on honesty and willingness to fail fast. If you see yourself fitting here, please apply.
Comp:
$80K-$200K
0.1%-2% equity
Incredible office in NYC. Equipment budget, meals, etc.
About Intelligence Factory
Robotics is the new paradigm. With hardware converging, Intelligence is the biggest bottleneck. Our world was built for humans and we're giving robots the ability to reason and act like us.
The way we learn any task - by seeing, doing, and feeling - is how we train robots. We're building general intelligence that works on any robot and fits seamlessly within our world.
Intelligence Factory
Founded:
2026
Batch:
P26
Team Size:
5
Status:
Active
Location:
San Francisco
Founders
Jalaj Shukla
Founder
Yash Sinha
Founder
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