Full-Time
Senior DevOps Engineer
Rhoda AI
51-200 employees
Develops heavy-lifting general-purpose humanoid robots
Compensation Overview
$175k - $250k/yr
Mountain View, CA, USA
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- At least 5 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, platform, or infrastructure roles, with ownership of production systems.
- Proficiency in a programming language such as Python, C++, Rust, or Go.
- Strong knowledge of software engineering best practices and design patterns.
- Experience with Docker and containerized environments.
- Experience with software build systems for cloud infrastructure and embedded systems.
- Experience with procedural continuous integration and continuous delivery, and build artifact delivery systems such as over-the-air update systems.
- Comfort operating in a Linux environment.
- Ability to work independently in ambiguous situations, prioritize work, and contribute where needed.
- Effective communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally.
- Maintain and improve the continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline by instrumenting and monitoring continuous integration jobs and iteratively improving the pipeline.
- Manage and maintain infrastructure for build artifact and dependency storage.
- Build and improve the cloud and graphics processing unit cluster, and create DevOps infrastructure supporting daily research and software development.
- Improve the machine learning operations training and deployment path, including the checkpoint registry or database, model artifact promotion, and rollout to inference or robot endpoints.
- Improve infrastructure observability.
- Harden security and multi-tenancy.
- Knowledge of industrial communication protocols, including EtherCAT, Modbus, and gRPC.
- Experience with machine learning operations.
- Understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, and firewalls, and security best practices for embedded Internet of Things devices.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud system orchestration.
Rhoda AI is building a two-armed humanoid robot designed as a general-purpose bimanual manipulation platform for industrial use. Its product centers on heavy-lifting and complex manipulation in factory and logistics environments, where many humanoid robots struggle. The robot combines dual arms with software and sensors that enable grasping, coordinating with both hands, and performing tasks that require strength and precision in industrial settings. Rhoda AI differentiates itself by targeting heavy-lift capabilities in robotics, a gap for many competitors, supported by a team with deep robotics and AI expertise and substantial funding. The company aims to bring commercially viable humanoid robots to industrial markets, competing with other players in factory automation and logistics robotics, with the goal of transforming how manual work is automated in manufacturing and related sectors.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$680M
Headquarters
San Jose, California
Founded
2024
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Rhoda raised $450 million on March 10, 2026, signaling deep investor conviction.
- The company reported a manufacturing evaluation under two minutes per cycle without human intervention.
- Leading industrial partners across manufacturing and logistics give Rhoda immediate pilot and distribution paths.
What critics are saying
- Figure AI’s $39 billion valuation and BMW deployments compress Rhoda’s market-entry window.
- Tesla’s Optimus factory conversion in 2026 can flood industrial buyers with cheaper robots.
- Rhoda’s $1.7 billion price tag before shipments makes a stealth failure existential by 2027.
What makes Rhoda AI unique
- Jagdeep Singh, Gordon Wetzstein, and Vincent Clerc combine hardware, AI, and robotics execution.
- Rhoda’s FutureVision targets video-predictive control for industrial tasks beyond controlled lab demos.
- Heavy-lifting bimanual manipulation targets factories where current humanoids fail on payloads.
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↓ -5%Rhoda AI, a startup developing artificial intelligence models trained on publicly available internet videos to direct robots in industrial tasks, has raised $450 million in funding led by Premji Invest. The round values the company at $1.7 billion post-money. The startup's AI model learns from millions of online videos to teach robots to perform various industrial tasks, including in unfamiliar conditions. The approach represents a novel data source for robotics training, aiming to expand robots' capabilities beyond controlled environments.
Flush with hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding, Rhoda AI and Genesis AI are developing humanoids they hope can go head-to-head with robots from Figure AI and Tesla.