Career Progression

Promotions

We believe in fair compensation and progression that reflects the expansion in your responsibilities.

Previously, we have been known to organically promote team members 2x within 6 months of joining.

Why Menlo

Deep-Tech in a Frontier Industry

Menlo works with forward-looking companies to build the robot labor force of tomorrow. The market opportunity spans embodied AI and general-purpose robots. Robotics is undergoing its own industrial revolution. Menlo’s platform is agent-first, built on VLAs/World Models, and the latest compute hardware including RISC-V, defining the next decade of the stack. Being at the frontier means embracing breadth. When the stack solidifies, you become the expert for the next 20 years.

Real Customers, Real Impact

Menlo ships robots and software to customers in over 17 countries, including scientists at NASA, CERN, and MIT. Your work has real users and real-world impact from day one.

Open Source

Your contributions are open source and visible to the world. Every line of code you write builds your public portfolio and professional reputation.

A Global Company

Menlo customers span 17+ countries. Menlo is selective about its clients, working with forward-looking organizations globally.

An Ambitious Vision

Long-term, Menlo is designing robots for space. The stack is built with safety, edge compute, and repairability at its core, engineered for the most demanding environments.

AI-Native Work Environment

Engineers have unlimited coding tokens via Tokamak, hosted at Menlo’s own datacenter. The team works with the frontier AI stack daily.

Financial Stability

Menlo has stable funding with runway through 2030.

Equity

For folks past probation, we grant early ESOP participation. See the compensation section for details.