Wild Card

Menlo is always hiring.

Maybe you're a designer with an anthropology habit 🗿. An ex-marine turned roboticist 🤖. A community builder who speaks fluent Rustacean 🦀. Or maybe you're something we don't have a title for yet 👽.

That's what this is. We call it the Wild Card: a space for the unconventional, the hybrid thinkers, the ones who don't fit neatly in a box and know they belong here anyway. If that's you, let's talk.

The mindsets we hire for:

• Fast and curious https://menlo.ai/handbook/who/curiosity. You learn in public and ship before you feel ready.
• Obsessed outliers https://menlo.ai/handbook/who/obsession. You go deep on things most people never notice.
• We hire for how fast you grow https://menlo.ai/handbook/who/dydx, not where you're starting from.
• Underdogs https://menlo.ai/handbook/who/underdogs. You've been counted out before and proved it wrong.
• We run like a pro sports team https://menlo.ai/handbook/who/sports-team: best players in their roles, hire and cut smartly, but give teams the continuity to gel and win together.

What you'll get:

• A team that moves like a pro sports team, where everyone has a critical role and we norm and storm until we produce results.
• Equity, ownership, and the freedom to build what actually matters.
• A chance to work with some of the most curious and mission-driven people you'll ever meet.
• A stage to do your life's best work without contorting yourself to fit a mold.

About Menlo Menlo Research is an Applied R&D lab building Asimov, an open-source humanoid robot platform, and the full software stack that powers it. Our mission is to make humanoid labor economically viable -- turning software into physical labor at scale. We build across the full stack: hardware architecture, locomotion, autonomy, simulation, and infrastructure. We move fast, ship to real robots, and open-source everything we can. If you want your work to matter beyond a paper or a demo, this is the place.

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