Founding Engineer (m/f/d)
About the role
We are looking for a technically strong full-stack Founding Engineer to evolve our product together with the founding team and shape the next generation of intelligent engineering and safety software for the robotics and automation industry.
Europe builds excellent robots but often overspends proving their safety. We believe this is a software problem, and we are building the regulatory operating system for teams putting physical AI into the world, automating safety engineering and certification workflows. Robotics and AI are in hyper growth, and the EU regulatory landscape is transforming rapidly in response. The whole industry needs what we are building.
As a Founding Engineer at Uniform Robotics, you won't just build features. You'll take ownership of architecture, quality, security and real customer value. Together with the two founders, you'll improve the product iteratively and help us act quickly on direct customer feedback. A core part of the role is building new, purpose-built agent systems that support complex technical analysis for autonomous systems like robots and drones reliably, traceably and safely.
What you'll do
· Evolve our web application and backend systems
· Design and implement scalable system architectures
· Build AI agents and multi-step agent workflows that analyze regulation, reason about a machine’s design and produce safety analyses and risk assessments that hold up in an audit
· Translate customer problems into robust technical solutions
· Build typed data, API and workflow interfaces
· Develop asynchronous processes, workers and background jobs
· Ensure data quality, traceability and reproducible results
· Work closely with the founding team, customers and domain experts
What you bring
· 2-4 years of professional experience as a full-stack software engineer
· Excellent hands-on skills in TypeScript and Next.js
· Confident working with PostgreSQL
· Good to very good Python skills
· Hands-on experience with LangChain or comparable agent frameworks
· A strong understanding of system design, software architecture and API design, plus good knowledge of application security (authentication, authorization, secrets and data isolation)
· Excellent written and spoken English and working proficiency in German
How you work: You analyze complex technical problems in a structured way and explain them simply. You work independently, pragmatically and with a strong sense of accountability. You have strong product sense and enjoy working directly with customers.
Especially valuable
· You get excited when software touches the physical world, especially robots
· Experience with regulation and ISO standards, functional safety or safety engineering in the robotics and automation industry
· Deep knowledge of cybersecurity threats and mitigation strategies
· Knowledge of risk assessment, FMEA, FMEDA and product certification
· Experience with regulated products or industrial B2B applications
· A realistic view of when to use AI vs. deterministic logic
About Uniform Robotics
Uniform Robotics was founded in 2025 and is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany. We are a team of 2 founders across engineering and regulatory affairs, backed by early-stage European investors. Humanoids, mobile robots and cobots are among the cases we know best. We have paying customers and are currently supporting international OEMs and system integrators deploying their products safely across a variety of use cases.
Why join us
· A mission with real-world impact: your work directly ensures that AI-driven robots remain safe for use in industry and for consumers
· A key role with real ownership and high impact on product, architecture and technical strategy
· The opportunity to build novel agent systems with measurable customer value
· A small, vibrant team of builders with flat hierarchies, short decision paths and zero bureaucracy, working daily with the founders and our customers
· Startup energy: we move fast, ship often and celebrate our wins together
· A steep learning curve at the intersection of software, AI, robotics and safety regulation – you grow as fast as we do
· On-site in Hamburg or Berlin: we build side by side, from whiteboard to production, with regular team events and free office drinks
Compensation
· Early-stage salary
· Meaningful equity to balance the early-stage salary
· Fast salary growth as you help Uniform grow: we bring your salary to market level in the next 12 months
Our hiring process
1. Intro call: mutual vibe check to get to know each other and see if we click
2. Live technical session: a hands-on exercise with technical questions you work through live, based on a realistic problem from our product
3. Debrief & conversation: we debrief your answers from the live technical session together, discuss your questions and clarify everything you want to know
4. Offer: if it's a match on both sides, you'll receive an offer
If you want to build the system that gets the next generation of robots safely into the world, let’s talk.
No cover letter needed. Send your CV or GitHub/LinkedIn profile and 2–3 sentences about something you’ve built and are proud of to us at [email protected].
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