Tech Lead Manager, AI Team

About the Team

The AI Platform team at Standard Bots is on a mission to create the default platform for applied AI robotics, where companies can efficiently develop, train, and deploy intelligent robots without reinventing the wheel. We’re building a robust ecosystem of tools, APIs, and an intuitive UI that empower businesses to harness the power of AI-driven robotics without needing specialized expertise. Our approach enables users to program robots through simple, hands-on demonstrations, drastically lowering the barrier to entry.

Joining this team means working with experts across software, hardware, and AI, where every product decision pushes us closer to redefining the future of robotics and automation.

About the role:

We're seeking a Tech Lead Manager with AI modeling expertise who is excited about building novel AI systems to drive business impact. We see the biggest risk here being execution and cutting through ambiguity to deliver on competing priorities.

We are looking for a leader who is focused on shipping a product with technical ambiguity and who can leverage the team's diverse expertise to ensure they are able to deliver. You should be able to dive into model development, optimization, and evaluation to ensure we're building the right AI capabilities and running effective ML experiments. Our team has two ML specialists, as well as robotics generalists and full-stack engineers on sister teams, and we're looking to bring in a TLM who has strong AI modeling experience and can help fill in gaps on the team, as well as track project execution and mentor the ML specialist engineers.

In this role, you will:

• Lead a small team of ML engineers to achieve business outcomes and technical excellence

• Design and optimize AI models and training strategies for robotics applications

• Apply novel machine learning techniques to solve complex robotics challenges

• Develop evaluation frameworks to measure model performance and identify improvement opportunities

• Build our ML pipeline, as well as full-stack as needed to deliver our AI product

• Drive technical roadmap and project management for your team

• Consult with AI industry experts to de-risk technical strategy

• Develop growth plans and keep engineers motivated

• Work with leadership and cross-functional partners to define success for our AI product as well as an execution plan

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have 10+ years of experience in a software engineering team, with at least 2 years of management experience

• Have a proven track record developing and deploying large-scale ML models

• Have experience with PyTorch and modern ML architectures and training techniques

• Have experience working in python, typescript and with various cloud technologies

• Have experience leading teams of 2+ engineers

• Have a track record of shipping business outcomes in a 0→1 environment

Compensation and Benefits:

The salary range for this role is $225,000 to $260,000. We are open to a variety of seniority levels for this role and will build compensation packages that are commensurate with seniority and skill level. Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at Standard Bots. All Full-Time Employees are eligible for Employee Stock Options. We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees.