Founding Engineer
Robot foundation models learn physical behavior from human demonstration, and real-world data has become a critical bottleneck in embodied intelligence.
Hub provides real-world training data to frontier AI labs and robotics companies, scaling multiple 7 to 8 figure contracts in parallel. Our network of 150,000+ users captures egocentric human data across all continents, and we run collection, processing, QA and annotation in-house, end to end.
Hub's mission is to advance embodied AGI through real-world data and research.
We're assembling a unique team of exceptional and relentless individuals, willing to dedicate themselves fully to the achievement of this mission.
The Role
As a founding engineer you own some of the most critical systems in the company.
Multiple platforms with 150K+ users collecting data: B2C, B2B, mobile app, internal.
Anti-fraud and automated QA systems. You own the quality of what we deliver every day.
Heavy backend, keeping architecture and ops efficient as we scale to 1M+ users.
Payout systems moving daily high volumes of money across 100+ countries.
Live production serving multiple top 5 AI companies, hard deadlines and specs.
The Profile
Graduates from top French engineering schools, ideally through classes préparatoires, 6 months to 3 years of experience. More experience is welcome when the track record justifies it. We look for outliers with outstanding achievements and grit.
Exceptional individual achievement: elite rankings at competitions or concours, hackathons won, system you hacked, projects at real scale or revenue.
You live for programming. Thousands of contributions on GitHub this year, active open-source participation (e.g. frequent late-night commits on weekends on your own).
You treat agentic engineering as a craft. You research the field daily and always run a SOTA customized harness.
You're willing to sacrifice to be part of an extraordinary journey, working at the center of the embodied AGI frontier alongside the biggest AI labs.
Bonus: experience developing mobile apps for iOS or Android.
Culture
Small core team by design. Y Combinator + SF high-performance culture and pace.
European founders, team across SF & Europe.
High accountability. Features owned end to end: design, build, ship, support.
Tokenmaxxing ethos. Uncapped frontier models, fleets of agents, shared skills and KB.
Multiple features shipped per day, output of an org 50 times the size.
Constant proactive communication. Slack, huddles, short stand-ups. No black box.
We hold a higher bar for ourselves than anyone could hold for us.
Stack
Python, FastAPI, Postgres, React, Docker, AWS and S3, versioned REST APIs.
Mobile: React Native and Expo, one codebase across iOS and Android, ARKit and ARCore under it for egocentric video capture. RGB+IMU sync, MCAP out.
Multimodal pipelines at petabyte scale: ingestion, VLM QA and labeling, fraud detection, stereo depth and hand reconstruction, delivery in MCAP and LeRobot.
We build our own custom platforms, not assembled SaaS: contributor app, commercial platform, mobile app, internal, payouts.
What We Offer
Founding engineer in one of the fastest-growing Y Combinator startups.
$80,000 to $100,000 yearly salary, stock options between 0.25% and 1%.
Remote, based in France. Paris office opening soon.
Direct work with the founders. Direct work with top AI labs.
Process
A short application read by the founders. We open your handles first: your GitHub with real commits, individual achievements, repos of projects you built.
One conversation, then a build task from the real work.
We watch how you approach the problem, how you break it down, what you measure, and how you verify your own work.
Final conversation.