Strategy & Ops Engineer
Happyrobot Inc.San Francisco, California, United States
Posted January 22, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
HappyRobot is the AI-native operating system for the real economyâa system that closes the circuit between intelligence and action.
Job Description
HappyRobot is a high-growth AI startup looking for a Strategy & Ops Engineer to eliminate manual work across the company by designing, building, and owning internal systems and automations.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and comfort shipping real systems
- Experience building automations or internal tools using Python, SQL, APIs, and/or scripting languages
- Ability to reason about systems, edge cases, failure modes, and long-term maintainability
- Strong business intuitionâunderstanding how operational systems affect cost, speed, and scale
- Extreme ownership: you find problems, design solutions, and ship without being asked
- High agency, urgency, and comfort operating in ambiguity
- Clear written and verbal communication
Benefits
- Opportunity to work at a high-growth AI startup, backed by top investors
- Rapidly growing and backed by top investors including a16z, Y Combinator, and Base10
- Ownership & Autonomy - Take full ownership of projects and ship fast
- Work With the Best - Join a world-class team of engineers and builders