Tech Jobs: These Recently Funded Robotics Startups Are Hiring Humans

Last week brought some sad (and strange) news for robotics lovers as mega corporation and Google parent company Alphabet reportedly shuttered its Everyday Robots department.

The robotics subsidiary was born out of Alphabet’s secretive X, The Moonshot Factory division, and produced robots known for tidying up the company offices and cafeterias, and sorting trash and recycling.

Despite this blow to the robotics world (yes, it’s a blow), robotics startups are still getting funding and hiring.

In this week’s edition of Who’s Hiring In Tech, we look at open positions at funded startups in the robotics industry in our Crunchbase database.

Notably, 16 companies in the robotics sector appear on our broader list of 490 Actively Hiring Startups, which includes funded companies that are currently hiring for multiple roles and that have not conducted reported layoffs in the past year.

Below, we highlight five of the roles from this list that caught our eye — this week, all from the robotics sector.

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Company: Diligent Robotics

• Position: Robot operations
• Salary: N/A
• Location: Austin and remote hybrid
• What it does: Diligent provides robots that work in health care environments to do nonclinical tasks like transporting samples, delivering patient belongings, etc.
• Why it’s cool: This might be my new favorite startup. Started by two female founders in 2017, the company sells a nurse-like robot named Moxi. Bonus: She has “heart” eyes.
• Funding history: Diligent Robotics has raised a total of $46.6 million in funding over seven rounds. Its latest funding was raised on April 11, 2022, from a Series B round. The company is funded by 18 investors. Boom Capital and Promus Ventures are its most recent backers, according to Crunchbase data.

To learn more about this role and others, click Actively Hiring in the company’s Crunchbase profile.

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Company: Pickle Robot

• Position: Director of AI
• Salary: N/A
• Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
• What it does:  The company produces robotic arms that offload truck inventory.
• Why it’s cool: Founded by an MIT alumni, Pickle’s off-the-shelf robot arm is not only learning how to play Tetris, but it’s also named “Dill.” Like a pickle. Get it? Too clever.
• Funding history: Pickle Robot has raised a total of $37.5 million in funding over five rounds. Its latest funding was raised on Nov. 15, 2022, from a Series A round. Pickle Robot is funded by 12 investors. JS Capital and Schusterman Foundation are the most recent backers, according to Crunchbase data.

To learn more about this role and others, click Actively Hiring in the company’s Crunchbase profile.

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Company: Kodiak Robotics

• Position: Staff robotics platform engineer
• Salary: $150,000-$230,000
• Location: Mountain View, California
• What it does: Kodiak Robotics develops autonomous technology for long-haul trucking and (as we learned above) other purposes.
• Why it’s cool: Last year the startup won an almost $50 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense to help the US Army automate ground vehicles for high-risk jobs like surveillance and reconnaissance. Sidenote: The Army has its own Robotics Combat Vehicle program. Have fun falling down that rabbit hole.
• Funding history: Kodiak Robotics has raised a total of $244.9 million in funding over six rounds. Its latest funding was raised on Dec. 6, 2022, from a grant. Kodiak Robotics is funded by 15 investors. The U.S. Department of Defense and Horizon Technology Finance are its most recent backers, according to Crunchbase data.

To learn more about this role and others, click Actively Hiring in the company’s Crunchbase profile.

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Company: HaptX

• Position: Hardware engineering manager
• Salary: $127,200 to $184,440
• Location: San Luis Obispo, California
• What it does: HaptX makes virtual reality gloves.
• Why it’s cool: Pretty great name since ”haptics” is the genre of technology that gives users a tactile response — or helps you feel something physical.
• Funding history: HaptX has raised a total of $59.5 million in funding over seven rounds. Its latest funding was raised on Sept. 15, 2022. %The company is funded by 18 investors. Mason Avenue Investments and Advanced Input Systems are its most recent backers, according to Crunchbase data.

To learn more about this role and others, click Actively Hiring in the company’s Crunchbase profile.

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Company: Prime Robotics

• Position: Electrical engineer (robotics)
• Salary: N/A
• Location: Denver
• What it does: Prime Robotics builds robots for the logistics and manufacturing industries, namely warehouse automation.
• Why it’s cool: This is actually a lead job and the individual gets to work with the teams in both the U.S. and Prime’s other office in China. So it’s global.
• Funding history: Prime Robotics has raised a total of $2 million in funding over just one round, according to Crunchbase data. Investors are unknown.

To learn more about this role and others, click Actively Hiring in the company’s Crunchbase profile.

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Want to find more companies that are actively hiring? Learn more about how to use Crunchbase’s Actively Hiring feature to find companies that are hiring for multiple open positions and fit your other search criteria. You can also use Crunchbase Pro to filter for companies that haven’t had recent layoffs reported, or check our Layoffs Tracker.

Methodology:

The full list of companies that are hiring is conducted using this Crunchbase Pro query. We include companies that are tagged as Actively Hiring — meaning they have multiple open roles listed — haven’t had any reported layoffs in the past year, have raised at least $1 million in total funding, and have raised funding within the past year.

The five featured roles are based on the above criteria, with Crunchbase News editors deciding which positions are interesting enough to highlight. This list is ultimately based on editors’ discretion.

• Submit an open role at your company for consideration in this feature.
• Have a correction for this list? Email me at jenna@crunchbase.com.
• Learn more about Crunchbase’s Actively Hiring filter 
• Learn how to filter by “No Layoffs Reported” using Crunchbase Pro

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