Full-Time

Member of Technical Staff

Customer Deployments

Antioch

Antioch

11-50 employees

Software-focused robotics development and simulation platform

No salary listed

New York, NY, USA

Hybrid

Regular travel to customer sites across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific is required.

Category
Software Engineering (1)
Required Skills
Machine Learning
Robotics

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Requirements
  • Experience in a customer-facing technical role such as solutions engineering, forward-deployed engineering, technical program management, technical consulting, or post-sales at a technical product company.
  • Technical depth sufficient to hold deeply technical conversations, code effectively with the help of artificial intelligence tools, and translate between customer engineers and the internal team.
  • Ability to explain a complex product clearly to engineers, product managers, and chief executive officers in writing and in person.
  • A track record of coordinating high-stakes, tight-timeline projects across many stakeholders and driving them to completion.
  • Ability to identify patterns across customer conversations and turn them into clear, prioritized requirements.
  • Strong writing skills for documentation, training materials, and customer-facing collateral.
  • Strong familiarity with statistics and machine learning to help customers rigorously compare simulation results with real-world telemetry.
  • Comfort with regular travel and in-person customer work across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
Responsibilities
  • Lead post-sales deployments end to end, coordinating solutions architecture with hands-on support from the wider engineering team to deliver customer implementations on time and with high quality.
  • Build the deployments function from scratch by defining scalable playbooks, processes, and tooling.
  • Champion the customer feedback loop by collecting signals across deployments, distilling them, and working with the Head of Product and Chief Technology Officer to ensure customer requirements drive the product roadmap.
  • Curate canonical documentation, training videos, and pre-sales and post-sales collateral, and feed customer insight into product marketing.
  • Build deep personal and technical trust with customers and convince engineers, product managers, vice presidents, chief technology officers, executives, founders, and chief executive officers of the product's value.
  • Drive continuous needs-finding by expanding single-objective pilots into new use cases across teams and organizations and feeding those learnings into go-to-market operations.
  • Travel onsite to customers across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with robotics, autonomy, simulation, or other Physical AI domains.
  • Experience at an early-stage startup or building a post-sales or deployments function from scratch.
  • Experience running complex services or consulting delivery projects.
  • Founder experience or a founder-adjacent role with end-to-end ownership of outcomes.

Antioch provides a software-centric platform for robotics teams to develop, test, and deploy autonomous systems entirely in software. The core product, Antioch Ark, packs a user’s complete hardware and software stack into a single, versioned digital artifact that can be run in simulated environments and real hardware with deterministic behavior, reducing the need for hardware-in-the-loop validation. The platform integrates with existing CI/CD and development workflows to support test-driven development for robotic autonomy. Unlike typical robotics tools, Antioch emphasizes sim-to-real readiness by default, containerization, and a native digital twin approach that bridges simulation and real-world performance. Its goal is to accelerate development cycles, improve reliability, and enable scalable, rigorously validated autonomous systems for robotics and autonomous vehicles.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$31.4M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2025

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What believers are saying

  • April 2026 seed funding added $8.5 million to scale engineering and infrastructure.
  • Early customers include multinationals in drones, construction, smart security, logistics, and automotive.
  • NVIDIA World Labs integration and CI/CD positioning accelerate adoption among autonomy teams.

What critics are saying

  • NVIDIA Isaac Sim 6.0 and PTC-Onshape workflows commoditize robotics simulation by 2026.
  • Antioch's $60 million valuation leaves little room if enterprise pilots stall before 2027.
  • If sim-to-real fidelity disappoints, customers revert to hardware-in-the-loop and Antioch becomes irrelevant.

What makes Antioch unique

  • Ark containerizes full robot stacks, targeting deterministic simulation and deployment workflows.
  • Antioch focuses on sensor and perception systems, where most commercial robotics budgets sit.
  • The company pitches itself as the Cursor for physical AI, not a generic simulator.

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