About Formant
Formant is building the operating system for intelligent machines. Our platform helps companies deploy, monitor, and scale fleets of robots in the real world — from logistics and cleaning to agriculture and beyond.
We’re a Series A startup with a small, experienced team and real production customers. You’ll work on software that directly affects how physical systems operate at scale.
The RoleWe’re looking for an ambitious early-career full‑stack engineer to help make the Formant platform more reliable, usable, and powerful for customers. You’ll work across our stack on real customer issues, core product development, and internal tooling, with a heavy focus on making our existing platform more reliable and easier to support.
This role is ideal for someone who wants to become a strong product engineer by working across the stack on real production problems — from debugging issues to shipping improvements that prevent them from happening again. We’re also looking for someone who is particularly excited about using AI tools to accelerate their work. You’ll collaborate closely with senior engineers and product leaders, gaining deep system context early in your career while contributing meaningful code from day one.
This role is intentionally rotational: you’ll start close to customer problems (support and reliability work), then increasingly shift into core product and platform work as you build context.
What You’ll Do
Customer-facing engineering & reliability (initial focus)
- Investigate and resolve high‑priority production issues
- Debug across the stack with guidance from senior engineers
- Identify recurring issues and drive systemic fixes, not only one‑offs
Product & platform development
- Build and improve features across the full stack (frontend, backend, infra)
- Improve documentation, runbooks, and onboarding paths for common scenarios
Automation & AI-assisted support
- Help build internal AI tooling (agents/chatbots) to handle common support workflows
- Improve logs, metrics, and diagnostics to make issues easier to detect and resolve
- Proactively reduce support load by making the product and tooling better
- Explore unfamiliar codebases or technologies
Who You Are
- 0–3 years of professional software engineering experience
(internships, co-ops, and substantial projects count) - Pragmatic: you can differentiate between “ship the fix” and “refactor the world”
- Strong fundamentals in computer science and software design
- Comfortable using modern AI-assisted development tools (e.g., coding copilots, LLMs) to improve productivity and learning
- Comfortable working on “unsexy” problems (legacy code, tricky edge cases) to earn leverage and context
- Communicative and calm under pressure when production issues arise
- Curious, pragmatic, and eager to learn quickly
- Takes ownership and follows through on problems
- You can show your work: a portfolio (GitHub, shipped projects, demos, write-ups) that lets us see your drive, energy, and how you think through real problems
You don’t need to know our entire stack — we care more about how you think and learn.
Growth & Mentorship
This role is designed as a launchpad for strong engineers.
You’ll:
- Work closely with experienced engineers
- Gain exposure to real production systems early
- Build both product and platform skills
- Take on increasing ownership over time
Potential future paths include product engineering, platform engineering, or customer-facing technical roles.
Why This Role Is Unique
- Your work will directly impact real-world robotics deployments
- You’ll learn faster than in large, siloed organizations
- You’ll contribute to meaningful features within weeks, not months
- You’ll build broad technical depth early in your career
Compensation
- Salary: ~$110K–$130K depending on experience
- Equity in a high-growth Series A startup
- Benefits and remote flexibility
Please Note:
This position is remote, however, Formant only hires employees in the states of: AZ, CA, CO, IL, KS, MA, NC, NY, OK, OR, and PA.
