Head of Robotics & Applied AI
📌San Francisco, United States 🇺🇸
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ senior
💰 200000
on-site
Reporting to the Co-Founder and CEO, Instawork is seeking a Head of Robotics & Applied AI. This is a unique opportunity to drive our strategy and operations in a rapidly evolving field, including thinking through how our growing network of 8M+ Pros in the “physical world” can help shape a successful future for robotics and LLM training. You will be responsible for cultivating both new and existing relationships, understanding partner data needs, and driving novel solution delivery to help Instawork become a labor leader in the robotics and AI ecosystem.
Who You Are:
- Proven Relationship Builder: The ideal candidate has at least 2-4 years of experience in robotics and physical AI. Demonstrated ability to cultivate and manage partnerships with innovative robotics or large LLM makers. Familiarity with the robotics and AI ecosystem, including key players, trends, and challenges.
- Technical Curiosity: Comfortable engaging with technical teams and understanding data, AI, and robotics workflows. The ideal candidate has a strong technical background and previous experience working in robotics.
- Multi-disciplinary Executor: Experience working across engineering, operations, and other functions to deliver results and strong problem solving capabilities (experience working on operational challenges is a plus).
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Strategic Thinker: Ability to adapt strategy as the market and technology landscape evolves, helping Instawork remain at the cutting edge.
- Strategic Execution: Help define and implement Instawork’s strategy for the cultivation of AI training data overall, especially robotics and “physical AI” companies, adapting to evolving industry needs and opportunities.
- Thought Leadership: Represent Instawork externally as a leader in the robotics and AI space, fostering innovation and collaboration. Regularly present progress, insights, and recommendations to Instawork's executive leadership, helping shape the company’s growth strategy and long-term vision.
- Partnership Development: Build and grow relationships with top companies developing robotics and physical AI solutions.
- Market and Data Needs Analysis: Deeply understand partner data requirements and how Instawork can support them in collecting and enriching data to improve their AI models.
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Cross-Functional Leadership: Work closely with engineering, operations, and other internal teams to execute on partner data needs and deliver high-quality solutions that will drive AI advancement in the physical world.
- The base salary for this position is $200,000 - $300,000.
- This position is eligible for equity in the form of stock options.
- This position is eligible for Instawork benefits, including:
- A variety of medical, dental, and vision plans with coverage beginning on the date of hire
- Flexible paid time off
- At least 8 paid company holidays annually
- Phone stipend
- Commuter stipend
- Supplemental pay on qualified leaves
- Employee health savings accounts (HSA) contribution
- Flexible spending plans
- 401K plan
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Perkspot - discount program through Lumity
Our Values
- Empathy, Trust & Candor We put ourselves in the shoes of our colleagues and customers and don’t shy away from uncomfortable conversations, instead building trust through honest and direct feedback.
- Bias for Action We practice high-velocity decision-making, clear-eyed that we often operate with incomplete information. Growing quickly means it’s OK to be wrong, so long as we learn from our mistakes and course correct!
- Always Be Learning We’re a curious bunch, and with AI transforming our workplace we encourage everyone to learn from each other, compounding our knowledge and experience to help us change an entire industry.
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Act Like an Owner We work long, hard, and smart, building products that delight our users and drive growth. Your ability to impact Instawork is limited only by your courage and conviction, not your job description.
Founded in 2015, Instawork is the nation’s leading online labor marketplace for food services, hospitality, light industry, and logistics, connecting more than 7M skilled workers with local restaurants, hotels, warehouses, stadiums, and more. Our AI-powered platform serves thousands of businesses across more than 50 major markets in the United States and Canada. We're not just helping fill shifts, we're supporting local economies—and we're just getting started!
Instawork has been featured by CBS News, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and the Associated Press. Forbes included us on their Next Billion Dollar Startups list; RetailTech Breakthrough named us Workforce Hiring Solution of the Year for 2025; and Inc. 5000 recognized us as one of the country's top 10% fastest-growing companies two years in a row. But what matters most is our impact. We're solving real problems for real people, and we’re doing it at scale.
Join our team to help us build something that matters! We’re looking for superstars who want to help us shape the future of work. With hubs in San Francisco, Bangalore, and Chicago, city offices in New York, Phoenix, and Singapore, we're back to working together in-person five days a week because we believe the best ideas happen when great people collaborate face-to-face. We also value diverse perspectives and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds.
Ready to make an impact? Learn more at www.instawork.com/about.
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Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation – making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
We’re looking for a true legend – someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. You’ll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. It’s your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo 🚀
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML 🤖
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking 🧠
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity 💰
- Remote work possible 🌍
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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