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Artificial Intelligence Engineer

📍 Location
sunnyvale
⏰ Job Type
Full-time
📅 Posted
June 09, 2026

About the Role

AI Engineer - Defense Robotics

Location : San Francisco (On-Site)

Compensation : $250,000 - $400,000 base + Equity


Most autonomy work never leaves the simulator. The model performs, the demo lands, and then it meets a real world environment and falls apart the first time the lighting is wrong or something moves that wasn't supposed to. This role is the opposite of that. The systems here run in the field, in real world environments, with people depending on the output.


An early-stage defense company is building the intelligence layer for fleets of robots: a foundation model that takes a natural-language command from a human operator and turns it into coordinated sensing, decision-making, and action across many machines at once.


The hard, unsolved part is the model that makes them act like they share one mind. That is the part you would ow...

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