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# Founding Software Engineer

- **Company:** Mbodi AI
- **Location:** Cliffside Park, NJ, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $165,000.0 - $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Python (Programming Language), Message Passing Interface, TypeScript, Large Language Models, Agentic-AI, Model Inference, Api Management
- **Published:** October 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.disabledperson.com/jobs/75924882-founding-software-engineer

## About the Role

* Have 5+ years of experience building distributed systems, with production exposure to concurrency bugs, partial failures, and consistency tradeoffs
 * Write fluent Python and TypeScript, and are comfortable dropping into C when performance demands it
 * Have strong intuitions about concurrent execution and know when to reach for locks, queues, or message passing
 * Have built systems where correctness is non-negotiable, such as robotics, autonomous systems, real-time control, or similar domains
 * Design for retry, rollback, and graceful degradation before the happy path
 * Move fast without cutting corners on correctness, observability, or API contracts
 * Are comfortable switching between a C runtime, a Python orchestrator, and a TypeScript dashboard in the same afternoon
 * Have hands-on experience with large language models (LLMs), agent frameworks, or model inference, though this is a bonus rather than a requirement

## Description

We're looking for a senior software engineer with deep intuitions about concurrency who is comfortable writing performance-critical code across the stack, from compiled C runtimes to Python agent orchestration and TypeScript frontends. You'll work directly with the founders on the core platform: the robot interface, the real-time world model, and the APIs that tie everything together.

The systems you build ship into customer environments. Correctness and uptime matter from day one, and you'll own your decisions end to end.

This role is based in New York City. We work a hybrid model with a minimum of three days per week in our SoHo office.

In this role, you will

 * Design and implement the distributed execution layer that coordinates robot agents, validators, and skill runners across work cells
 * Own the concurrency model for the platform, from scheduling and synchronization to failure recovery
 * Build the real-world representation layer that turns camera input (objects, positions, states) into a live, persistent picture the system can reason over
 * Write performance-critical runtime components in C that turn design-time agent reasoning into deterministic, low-latency execution
 * Develop the TypeScript interfaces and APIs that surface robot status, task state, and live feedback to operators
 * Instrument the system for observability, including tracing, latency profiling, and failure analysis across a distributed fleet
 * Work closely with ML and robotics engineers to keep the execution layer and the learning loop tightly coupled