Lead AI Native Engineer

Role Summary

Why RoboForce

RoboForce 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.

We 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.

Responsibilities

• Build vertical agents. Own end-to-end agents for high-value workflows across research, software, hardware, data, and operations—from problem definition through production use.
• Establish the agent foundation. Build reusable primitives for models, tools, orchestration, context, memory, retrieval, permissions, human approval, and long-running execution.
• Create the context layer. Connect agents to trusted data through APIs, pipelines, MCP servers, and integrations with clear provenance and access control.
• Own evaluation and reliability. Build benchmarks, regression tests, tracing, monitoring, and failure-analysis loops across quality, latency, cost, security, and resilience.
• Advance frontier agent usage. Evaluate new models, coding agents, SDKs, and patterns, then turn useful capabilities into maintainable systems rather than demos.
• Support strategic initiatives. Help company leadership apply agents and analytical systems to market and customer intelligence, partnerships, fundraising, diligence, scenario analysis, and executive decisions.
• Provide technical leadership. Set architecture and engineering standards, review designs and code, and create reusable patterns for the technical team.

Requirements

• 5+ years in software engineering, applied AI, ML systems, or a related field, with strong zero-to-one technical judgment.
• Experience at a frontier AI lab, leading AI company, or comparable team working at the edge of current model capabilities.
• A track record shipping production agentic systems that real users depend on—not only prompts, prototypes, or demos.
• Deep experience with frontier model APIs, tool use, orchestration, context engineering, retrieval, memory, and multi-step workflows.
• Experience building evaluations, regression tests, observability, and production failure-analysis loops for AI systems.
• Exceptional 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.
• Strong product judgment: able to turn an ambiguous decision or workflow into a useful, secure, measurable system.
• Requires 5 days/week in-office collaboration with the team.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience with post-training, model evaluation, inference, or research infrastructure at a frontier lab or model company.
• Experience with MCP infrastructure, developer platforms, knowledge graphs, RAG, or secure enterprise integrations.
• Background in robotics, autonomous systems, industrial automation, or another technically complex physical-world domain.

Benefits

• Competitive stock options/equity programs.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) plan.
• Visa sponsorship and green card support for qualified candidates.
• Lunches and dinners, a fully stocked kitchen, and regular team-building events.

About the Company

ABOUT MOONLAKE

Moonlake is building the frontier of interactive world models: systems that generate, simulate, and reason over 3D environments for embodied AI, robotics and gaming. We develop the simulation infrastructure to build worlds (e.g., assets, scenes, digital twins) at scale.

Our team sits at the intersection of

Moonlake is building the next generation of AI infrastructure for interactive digital worlds. Our mission is to enable anyone to create, simulate, and interact with rich environments using natural language and multimodal inputs, turning simple ideas into worlds with structure, logic, and agents that can perceive and act.

Our team has raised $28M in seed funding from NVIDIA Ventures, Threshold Ventures, AIX ventures and notable angels including Naval Ravikant and Jeff Dean to build the foundational layer for the future of AI - powering everything from creative tools and games to robotics training, simulations, and digital twins. Our goal is to make building and experimenting with these environments as accessible and scalable as publishing video on the internet.

We are looking for exceptional research engineers and applied researchers to help push the frontier of interactive AI.

Embodied AI

Robotics simulation

Interactive 3D worlds

World models

Real-time generation

AI infrastructure