Trace - Software Engineer, Full Stack

United States$150k - $250k3mo ago

In Office NA Robotics Software Engineer Full Stack Engineer Full Stack

Requirements

• Comfort operating in early-stage environments where you help define structure and process • Strong generalist engineering skills with experience across multiple parts of the stack • Product-minded builder who is comfortable working directly with customers and translating real world feedback into better systems and experiences • Solid backend fundamentals and the ability to reason about systems, performance, and tradeoffs • High ownership, good judgment, and productive, thoughtful communication • Emotional maturity and a collaborative, grounded working style • Exposure to robotics, autonomy, CV, or hardware-adjacent products • Experience with video, media pipelines, or large data systems

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve core systems that move data from capture to customer-ready datasets • Own projects end-to-end and work directly with customers on both sides of the marketplace to inform product decisions. • Work across backend services, data pipelines, internal tooling, and product workflows • Improve reliability, performance, and observability of systems operating in messy environments • Help define technical direction and engineering best practices as the team scales

Benefits

• A world-changing problem: Physical AI will reshape entire industries, but it cannot scale without real-world data. Trace is addressing one of the core constraints holding the field back. • Early but real traction: Active pilots with growing demand on both sides of the marketplace. • Experienced, tight-knit team: Ex founders, PhDs, and operators with a track record of building and scaling together. • Real ownership: This is early. Your work will materially shape the product, systems, and direction of the company. • Foundational platform: We are building core infrastructure that enables many future products and use cases as physical AI evolves.