Mobile Developer - Instawork Robotics

Instawork
San Francisco, California, United StatesPosted 23 January 2026

Job Description

<div class="content-intro"><p>Instawork is on a mission to create meaningful economic opportunities for skilled hourly professionals in communities around the globe. Our AI-powered labor marketplace helps local businesses scale, and enables global technology companies to push the frontiers of robotics and AI. Backed by world-class investors like Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock, Y Combinator, and others, we’re looking for exceptional talent to reimagine the way the world works.</p></div><p>Instawork’s on-demand labor marketplace is uniquely valuable for robotics and physical AI training. We’re working with leading frontier labs to create the highest-quality, highest-diversity dataset for training robotics foundation models. Instawork Robotics is the human advantage in the robotics revolution. </p> <p>The Instawork Robotics Mobile Developer will own the custom, AI-enabled app we use for distributed robotics data collection.</p> <p><strong>Who You Are:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>An experienced mobile app developer,</strong> with at least 5 years of iOS and Android development experience, excluding internships.</li> <li><strong>An iOS expert,</strong> with at least 2 years of native Swift programming experience.</li> <li><strong>Scalability-focused,</strong> you’ve published apps used by a distributed, global user base.</li> <li><strong>CX-obsessed,</strong> with a bias towards continuously improving the app experience based on user feedback and app analytics.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Nice-to-haves:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience with ARKit, XR apps, and/or data collection apps.</li> <li>Experience shipping production code at an early-stage or mid-stage startup</li> <li>Cross-platform development experience, ideally including Android and Unity</li> </ul> <p><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>App Development</strong> - own the end-to-end development of the Instawork Pro Capture app, implementing features including new CV capabilities, internationalization, analytics, and integration with our data pipeline.</li> <li><strong>Cross-Functional Collaboration </strong>-<strong> </strong>Work closely with robotics leadership, data ops, QA, and other engineering teams to ensure alignment from concept to deployment.</li> </ul> <p><strong>For CA Based Applicants:</strong></p> <ul> <li>The base salary for this position is between $170K to $200K</li> <li>This position is eligible for equity in the form of stock options</li> <li>This position is eligible for Instawork benefits, including: </li> <ul> <li>Variety of medical, dental, and vision plans with coverage beginning on the date of hire</li> <li>Flexible paid time off</li> <li>At least 8 paid company holidays annually</li> <li>Phone stipend</li> <li>Commuter stipend</li> <li>Supplemental pay on qualified leaves</li> <li>Employee health savings accounts (HSA) contribution</li> <li>Flexible spending plans</li> <li>401K plan</li> <li>Perkspot - discount program through Lumity</li> </ul> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 8pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" data-darkreader-inline-color="">#LI-Onsite #LI-CR2</span></p><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Our Values </span></strong></p> <ul> <li> <p><strong><span styl ... (truncated, view full listing at source)