Full-Time
Senior Software Engineer
Mobile
Updated on 8/1/2026
Mecka AI
51-200 employees
Labeled human movement data for robotics
Compensation Overview
$180k - $250k/yr
New York, NY, USA
In Person
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- The candidate must have 7+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent impact.
- The candidate must have strong experience shipping production iOS and Android applications with high reliability and performance requirements.
- The candidate must have deep debugging skills across devices, operating system versions, media stacks, and networking.
- Experience with compute-heavy mobile applications such as camera, media, augmented reality, robotics, or mapping systems is a strong signal.
- Experience shipping mobile systems that run long sessions reliably for hours is a strong signal.
- Experience with custom Android builds, devices, or hardware-adjacent Android systems is a strong signal.
- Build and optimize camera and recording pipelines for performance, thermal constraints, memory, battery, disk, and concurrency.
- Own correctness and reliability for long-running, real-world capture sessions.
- Architect and ship mobile features end-to-end across iOS and Android at production scale.
- Build testing, release, monitoring, and debugging systems that maintain product stability as it scales.
- Work on Android systems operating in non-standard, hardware-adjacent environments.
- Debug issues across application, operating system, device, and networking boundaries.
- Improve crash-free rate, startup time, media performance, and behavior under poor connectivity.
- Build guardrails including retries, offline-first patterns, resumable uploads, and safe data-integrity guarantees.
Mecka AI supplies large-scale, labeled human movement data to train AI and robotics systems. It records and analyzes videos of people performing targeted tasks, then delivers anonymized, richly annotated multimodal datasets that are ready for machine-learning models. The company coordinates a global network to collect data and provides end-to-end services from data collection to annotation and dataset curation, including a gig-economy model for participation. Its goal is to give AI developers and robotics teams fast access to high-quality movement data at scale to speed up autonomous-system development.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$60M
Headquarters
Barbados
Founded
2025
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Expanded data collection across culinary, chemistry, and metal fabrication sectors broadens embodied AI applicability.
- Raising $60 million in Series A funding enables scaling infrastructure and deploying robots commercially.
- Switching to gamified daily quests replaces crypto tokenomics, increasing user retention and accessibility in gig data collection.
What critics are saying
- Direct competition from Scale AI and Macrodata Labs threatens market share within 6 to 12 months.
- Founder team lacks AI and robotics domain expertise, increasing execution risk for technical delivery.
- First-person video approach may fail to outperform teleoperation methods, risking loss of partner 1x Technologies.
What makes Mecka AI unique
- Mecka AI captures first-person human motion data via iPhones and body sensors for robotics training.
- The company builds a data and deployment layer, acting as foundational infrastructure for physical AI.
- Mecka integrates multimodal data including vision, touch, and sound to enable robots in unprepared environments.
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