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San Francisco, CAFull-time$150–225K/yrSeen todayStill listed today
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Job overview
Preload builds a wearable multimodal data stack that captures human interaction with the physical world and turns it into datasets for robotics teams. The company invites candidates to pitch roles across robotics, biosignals, hardware, machine learning, clinical research, operations, and go-to-market. It seeks people with a track record of building quickly, comfort with ambiguity and end-to-end ownership, and genuine excitement about robotics and physical AI.
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Full job description
About Preload Preload builds the data layer for physical AI. Robots learn mostly from video, but human interaction is much richer: touch, force, and muscle activity. We build a wearable multimodal stack (egocentric video, tactile gloves, EMG) to capture how people actually interact with the physical world, and turn it into datasets robotics teams can train on. We're a YC (F26) team of PhD founders from Johns Hopkins and Caltech with backgrounds at Neuralink, Paradromics, and other neurotech companies. Don't see your role? Pitch us. We're early, and some of our best hires won't fit neatly into a job description. If you're exceptional and believe you can help us build the data layer for physical AI, we want to hear from you, whatever your background. Areas where we'd love to hear from you
- Robotics, manipulation, and robot learning
- Biosignals, neuroengineering, and wearable sensing
- Hardware, mechanical design, and manufacturing
- ML research, multimodal modeling, and data infrastructure
- Surgery, clinical research, and medical devices
- Operations, partnerships, and go-to-market
How to apply In your application, tell us:
- What you'd own at Preload and why it matters now
- The most impressive thing you've built or done
- What you'd accomplish in your first 90 days
What we're looking for
- A track record of building real things, fast
- Comfort with ambiguity and owning problems end to end
- Genuine excitement about robotics and physical AI
Why join Early, in-person team in San Francisco. You'll shape the product, the stack, and the culture from day one. Compensation depends on the role and experience.
How this job compares
Set against the 474 open Robotics jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$150–225K/yr
- California median$168–259K/yr98 salary ranges
- US median$144–264K/yr339 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $188K, is 15% below the California median midpoint ($221K) — in the middle half of Robotics salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 167 open Robotics jobs in California and 474 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for no prior experience — less than three in four Robotics postings that state a minimum ask for (median 8 years, across 334 postings).
- Education
- 208 of the 474 open Robotics jobs (44%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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