Founding Software Engineer

Founding Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco (preferred)

Type: Full-time · Founding Team

About Bracket Bot

Bracket Bot is building low-cost, general-purpose robots that developers can program and deploy in days.

We’re transforming the world’s ~50 million software engineers into robotics engineers by building a full-stack platform—hardware, software, and ML—designed from first principles for performance, usability, and cost. Low expense is a design goal, not a constraint.

By transforming commodity, mass-manufactured components through disciplined engineering, we deliver robots that are reliable, high-performance, and inexpensive to build and operate. We believe fewer than 1,000 engineers globally can reason about robotics as a true vertically-integrated system, and we’re assembling a small team of them to build an accessible, developer-first robotics platform.

We’re backed by an amazing group of investors, co-led by Fifty Years (Scott Phoenix) and BoxGroup , with participation from Betaworks and Pace Capital , plus standout angels including Logan Kilpatrick (Google AI), Mohith Mothukuri (Physical Intelligence), and Guillermo Rauch (Vercel).

Bracket Bot is building a low-expense, high-performance robotics platform ready for real-world deployment.

About the role

Real-time voice interaction is a major product bottleneck for us. We’re hiring a Founding Software Engineer to own the full audio pipeline — from microphones to ML to SDK integration — under strict latency constraints.

What you’ll do

• Own the software + ML side of the audio stack:

  • Voice-to-voice models (e.g. real-time speech systems)

  • Low-latency audio pipelines (~10ms constraints)

  • SDK integration and developer experience

• Work with ML speech / TTS / STT systems (e.g. Coqui TTS, modern speech models)

• Learn and interface with firmware / DSP when needed

• Collaborate closely with EE (who owns PCBs + hardware)
  

What we’re looking for

• Strong software engineering fundamentals

• Applied ML experience (especially real-time systems)

• Intuition for latency, buffering, and streaming

• Willingness to learn adjacent layers (firmware / DSP)
  

Nice to have

• Audio/speech experience

• DSP or embedded systems exposure

• Experience with real-time voice models
  

Important Notes

• You do not need to be an expert in all layers on day one

• You do need the ability to reason across them

• We care more about taste and judgment than perfect background alignment.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Bracket Bot is an equal opportunity employer. We’re building a diverse team and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.