Applied Scientist

About Rabot

Rabot builds vision AI for warehouse packing operations. Our systems observe physical processes through cameras, run inference on edge devices, and deliver real-time feedback to human operators. The technical surface spans computer vision, real-time embedded systems, cloud infrastructure, and human-facing software.

We're venture-backed, deployed with paying customers, and partnered with major industry players. The engineering problems are real and the systems run in production, not in a lab.

Our product sits at the intersection of several hard systems: cameras and optics in uncontrolled environments, AI models running on constrained edge hardware, real-time data pipelines, cloud-scale analytics, and software interfaces for non-technical users. These systems interact in ways that are difficult to reason about without formal tools.

We're looking for someone who can think about these systems at a level of abstraction above the code. Someone who sees architecture problems as problems in combinatorics or graph theory. Someone who models data flow the way a physicist models energy flow. Someone who can identify the fundamental constraints in a system, not just the implementation bottlenecks.

AI tools have changed what's possible here. A person with deep theoretical training and strong AI fluency can now architect a system, validate it formally, and implement it, all without needing a team of specialists. We're hiring for that person.

• Analyze and redesign the abstractions across our technical stack. Internal tools, customer-facing software, edge systems, AI models. Find the unifying structures.

• Model system behavior formally where it matters. Latency bounds, throughput limits, failure modes, scaling properties. Use the right mathematical framework for the problem.

• Work across teams as the person who sees the whole system. Translate between the hardware engineer thinking about device constraints and the software engineer thinking about user experience.

• Identify where AI models can replace heuristics or manual processes, both in the product and in how we build it.

• Use AI tools as a core part of your workflow. For implementation, for exploration, for validation. We expect you to be fluent.

• Ship. Theoretical elegance matters, but so does production code. You'll have AI tools to help bridge the gap, but the work has to reach customers.

• You have deep training in abstract reasoning. Mathematics, theoretical physics, theoretical computer science, or a related discipline. PhD preferred, but what matters is the depth of thinking, not the credential.

• You can formalize problems. When you see a messy engineering challenge, your instinct is to find the right abstraction, define the constraints precisely, and reason about the solution space before writing code.

• You're AI-fluent. You use AI tools every day as thinking partners and implementation accelerators. You see them as what they are: tools that let one person with deep understanding do what used to require a team.

• You can communicate with engineers. You don't just prove things; you explain them in ways that change how people build software.

• You ship. You may not be the fastest coder on the team, but between your understanding and AI tools, your work reaches production.

• You're drawn to hard problems in messy domains. Warehouses are not clean rooms. The interesting part is making rigorous systems work in uncontrolled environments.

• Experience with computer vision, perception systems, or signal processing.

• Background in optimization, control theory, queueing theory, or information theory applied to real systems.

• Familiarity with edge computing constraints: limited memory, power, compute.

• Experience deploying AI/ML models in production (not just training them).

• Publications or research output that demonstrates original technical thinking.

• You've worked in industry before and understand the difference between a proof and a product.

• Base salary plus equity. A real stake in the company.

• Hard problems at the intersection of AI, physical systems, and software.

• A small team where your thinking directly shapes the…