Founding Engineer

Who are we?

At Antioch, we’re building the future of robotics development: a unified platform that lets teams design, train, and test full-scale robots entirely in high-fidelity cloud simulation — then deploy to real hardware with confidence.

Who are we looking for?

We’re looking for Founding Engineers to join us on this mission, and solve challenging problems across the entire stack:

1. Physics & simulation infrastructure: Our core physics engine for simulating robots
2. Deterministic middleware: A real-time middleware layer for deterministic execution
3. Cloud-sim product: Auth, CI, UX, and tooling for spinning up and interacting with cloud simulation instances
4. Hardware modules: Integrating and validating arms, cameras, sensors, and other custom peripherals
5. Middleware modules: Plug-in ML models, motion planning, navigation, and localization stacks

You may be a great fit if…

1. You’re living in NYC, or you’re willing to relocate here
2. You’re a high-agency founding engineer who is passionate about our mission: building the future of robotics development
3. You give a shit about what you build, and are frustrated when others do not
4. You’re familiar with the 0 → 1 grind, and choose it on purpose
5. You balance craft and pragmatism; you strive for engineering excellence, but recognize when “good enough now” beats “perfect later”
6. You embrace uncertainty, autonomously search for answers, and are comfortable diving in anywhere across the stack to solve a problem
7. You’re commercially-minded, and customer-obsessed

Nice-to-haves

1. Proficiency in modern C++, Rust, and Python
2. Experience with ROS/ROS2, or similar robotics middleware frameworks
3. Experience with NVIDIA Isaac Sim, or other high-fidelity physics engines
4. Experience in developing real-time and deterministic systems
5. Experience building distributed services and monitoring systems at scale
6. Experience with robotics engineering: hardware, embedded systems, RTOS, controls