# Founding Software Engineer - Company: [Bracket Bot]() - Location: San Francisco - Remote: Yes - Team: Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Posted: January 10, 2026 ## Job description # 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. ## Apply [Apply on Bracket Bot]() Canonical job page: