Senior Engineer (AI / Robotics / R&D), In-Home Care AI
Sierra Studio, United States
The role
Our hiring partner is hiring their first in-house engineer.
They want someone who can open the codebase, test ideas themselves, and get them real answers fast. Someone they can hand an open question to and get back working evidence, not an opinion.
Most of your week will be spent writing code: prototypes, integrations, internal tools, and R&D experiments. The rest goes to being the technical reference inside the company, the person their engineering partner syncs with and the person their CEO turns to when something needs a real answer.
A big part of the job is technical validation. They're constantly running into questions like: can we run this on-device? Is this open source speaker stack good enough? What would it take for a humanoid robot to do something actually useful in a home? You build the answer, bring back your findings, and you and the team decide together what makes it into the product. Turning a question into working evidence in days instead of quarters is the single biggest thing this hire unlocks.