# Lead AI Native Engineer

Source: https://realanalystjobs.com/job/lead-ai-native-engineer-roboforce-db3d3fa9
Lead AI Native Engineer at Roboforce, an on-site role based in Milpitas, California, USA. Experience level: 5+ Years. Posted on 11 June 2026, read from Roboforce's own careers page (Greenhouse), which RealAnalystJobs re-checks daily and removes the role when it closes.

Updated 15 November 2026.

## Key facts

- Company: [Roboforce](https://realanalystjobs.com/companies/roboforce)
- Location: Milpitas, California, USA
- Work mode: On-site
- Posted: Jun 11, 2026
- Employment type: Full time
- Experience level: 5+ Years
- Source: Roboforce's careers page (Greenhouse), re-checked daily

## About this role

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.

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