Robotics Engineer

Anthrogen develops protein foundation models to develop new-to-nature peptides with applications from human health to frontier manufacturing efforts. They are comprised of scientists from Columbia, Duke, Berkeley, and more.

They have recently trained a large, multimodal foundation model that is SOTA across a variety of benchmarks and can even be prompted with natural language. They continue to run scaling experiments and are working towards a public launch of their first-generation models in the near future.

The team is seed-stage and has raised $4M from investors like Paul Graham, Box Group, Y Combinator, Wayfinder, and others. www.anthrogen.com

We’re a seed-stage team in San Francisco building robotic systems to automate real-world lab workflows. Most lab processes today are still manual, slow, and error-prone.

Our goal is to build a fully autonomous, “black-box” lab — systems that can take in high-level inputs and run physical workflows end-to-end without human intervention.

We’re not there yet. The system is still evolving, and a big part of this role is figuring out what actually works and making it reliable.

• Design and build mechanical and electromechanical subsystems
• Write the code that actually runs the system (control logic, sequencing, hardware interfaces)
• Bring up new hardware and get it working end-to-end
• Debug failures across the full system — mechanical, electrical, and software
• Iterate until systems are stable and repeatable, not just working once

• You’ve built and delivered at least one complex physical system with real ownership
• You’re comfortable writing code that interfaces directly with hardware
• Strong ability in at least one area:
• Mechanical design
• Controls
• Embedded / systems programming
• Experience working with motors, sensors, and power in a real system
• Good at solving unexpected problems

• Experience building systems that had to run reliably over time, not just demos
• Experience integrating multiple subsystems into a working system
• Prior startup, lab, or independent build experience

• Ownership — you will be responsible for real parts of the system
• Comfort with ambiguity — we are still figuring things out
• Speed — we build and iterate quickly

• San Francisco (in-person)
• Compensation: $140k–$220k + equity