Coco Robotics

Candidate

Is This You?

Your product improves every week because you are the catalyst who makes one extra thing happen every day. You hold your own with research engineers, and you earn their respect in the details: the data, the edge cases, and the plans.

Your Mission

One pilot, the person watching a robot's video feed, supervises one robot today, and the target is one pilot for four. Moving that number is the heart of the job, because that ratio decides the unit economics of the whole business and gets Coco to profitability. You get there while average speeds rise and intervention rates and collisions both come down.

What you'll get to do

• Turn Research Into Product: The autonomy team sits in the Venice office with Coco's Chief AI Scientist and graduate researchers from his UCLA lab. You help decide which of their results reach the fleet, and you make the case for each one with data.
• Invent the Supervision Interface: The control scheme, the alerting, and what a pilot sees when four robots need attention at once are open questions nobody has answered yet.
• Ship Safety Systems on Coco 2: Coco 2, the robot built for mass production, brings a new sensor suite and ships this fall. You define the safety systems that let average speeds rise and delivery times fall while collisions keep going down.
• Open the Bike Lanes: Putting robots in bike lanes takes a trial program, a willing city, and a regulator who believes your data. You build the case and run the trial.
• Earn the Regulators' Trust: Regulators and delivery partners have to understand Coco's safety standards and where the roadmap is going. You own the autonomy roadmap and the safety record those people read, working with the policy hire Coco is adding.

What we're looking for

• You Create Momentum: Something ships every week that would not have shipped without you. When a research result is ready, you are the one who gets it onto the fleet.
• Sweat the Edge Cases: These robots move through crowded sidewalks and street crossings every day, so the edge cases, the data, and the plans have to be right before anything ships.
• Data Fluency: You pull your own numbers in SQL, and you trust them because you know how they were built. George does the same, and says he writes more SQL at Coco than he has in years.
• A Feel for the Physical World: You like products that live outdoors, and you would rather spend a morning riding along with a field operator than in a planning meeting.
• Trajectory Over Tenure: How fast you have grown matters more here than how many years you have. We would rather bet on someone early in a steep curve than on a long resume that plateaued.
• Crisp Communication: You make things concise, in a doc and in the room. An engineer can act on one of your updates without booking a meeting to decode it.

Bonus Points

• Small-Company Robotics or Logistics: You have worked on robotics, autonomy, or logistics somewhere small enough that you had to do everything yourself.
• Competitive Gaming: You have played something competitively where you had to supervise or coordinate several things at once.

Interview

What to Expect

Details

The Fine Print

• Compensation: $180-250K base, plus equity
• Reports To: George O'Brien, VP Product
• Location: Coco works in person at its Venice office in Los Angeles. This role is in the office because the robots, the factory, and the autonomy team are all in that one building.
• Team: Coco has about 140 people, and about 10 of them work on autonomy in the Venice office.
• Work Authorization: Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer. Visa sponsorship or transfer (e.g., H-1B) is not available.