Mobile Developer - Instawork Robotics

Instawork is building an AI-first labor marketplace, and Instawork Robotics focuses on creating high-quality datasets for training robotics foundation models. The Mobile Developer will own the custom, AI-enabled app for distributed robotics data collection. This role involves end-to-end app development, including new CV capabilities, internationalization, analytics, and data pipeline integration, working closely with robotics leadership and other engineering teams to ensure alignment from concept to deployment.

Must Have

• At least 5 years of iOS development experience, excluding internships
• At least 2 years of native Swift programming experience
• Published apps used by a distributed, global user base
• Bias towards continuously improving the app experience based on user feedback and app analytics

Good to Have

• Experience with ARKit, XR apps, and/or data collection apps
• Experience shipping production code at an early-stage or mid-stage startup
• Cross-platform development experience, ideally including Android and Unity

Perks & Benefits

• Variety of medical, dental, and vision plans with coverage beginning on the date of hire
• Flexible paid time off
• At least 8 paid company holidays annually
• Phone stipend
• Commuter stipend
• Supplemental pay on qualified leaves
• Employee health savings accounts (HSA) contribution
• Flexible spending plans
• 401K plan
• Perkspot - discount program through Lumity

Instawork’s vision is to create economic opportunities for local businesses and skilled hourly workers in communities around the world. With an AI-first approach, we’re supercharging the leading online labor marketplace and looking for exceptional talent to help us build the future of hourly work. Backed by world-class investors like Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock, Y Combinator, and more, we want you to help us continue to scale quickly and make an even greater impact.

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.

The Instawork Robotics Mobile Developer will own the custom, AI-enabled app we use for distributed robotics data collection.

Who You Are:

• An experienced mobile app developer, with at least 5 years of iOS development experience, excluding internships.
• An iOS expert, with at least 2 years of native Swift programming experience.
• Scalability-focused, you’ve published apps used by a distributed, global user base.
• CX-obsessed, with a bias towards continuously improving the app experience based on user feedback and app analytics.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience with ARKit, XR apps, and/or data collection apps.
• Experience shipping production code at an early-stage or mid-stage startup
• Cross-platform development experience, ideally including Android and Unity

What You’ll Do:

• App Development - 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.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration - Work closely with robotics leadership, data ops, QA, and other engineering teams to ensure alignment from concept to deployment.

For CA Based Applicants:

• The base salary for this position is between $170K to $200K
• This position is eligible for equity in the form of stock options
• This position is eligible for Instawork benefits, including:

• Variety of medical, dental, and vision plans with coverage beginning on the date of hire
• Flexible paid time off
• At least 8 paid company holidays annually
• Phone stipend
• Commuter stipend
• Supplemental pay on qualified leaves
• Employee health savings accounts (HSA) contribution
• Flexible spending plans
• 401K plan
• Perkspot - discount program through Lumity

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Our Values

• Empathy, Trust & Candor

We put ourselves in the shoes of our colleagues and customers and don’t shy away from uncomfortable conversations, instead building trust through honest and direct feedback.

• Bias for Action

We practice high-velocity decision-making, clear-eyed that we often operate with incomplete information. Growing quickly means it’s OK to be wrong, so long as we learn from our mistakes and course correct!

• Always Be Learning

We’re a curious bunch, and with AI transforming our workplace we encourage everyone to learn from each other, compounding our knowledge and experience to help us change an entire industry.

• Act Like an Owner

We work long, hard, and smart, building products that delight our users and drive growth. Your ability to impact Instawork is limited only by your courage and conviction, not your job description.

About Instawork

Founded in 2015, Instawork is the nation’s leading online labor marketplace for food services, hospitality, light industry, and logistics, connecting more than 7M skilled workers with local restaurants, hotels, warehouses, stadiums, and more. Our AI-powered platform serves thousands of businesses across more than 50 major markets in the United States and Canada. We're not just helping fill shifts, we're supporting local economies—and we're just getting started!

Instawork has been featured by CBS News, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and the Associated Press. Forbes included us on their Next Billion Dollar Startups list; RetailTech Breakthrough named us Workforce Hiring Solution of the Year for 2025; and Inc. 5000 recognized us as one of the country's top 10% fastest-growing companies two years in a row. But what matters most is our impact. We're solving real problems for real people, and we’re doing it at scale.

Join our team to help us build something that matters! We’re looking for superstars who want to help us shape the future of work. With hubs in San Francisco, Bangalore, and Chicago, city offices in New York, Phoenix, and Singapore, we're back to working together in-person five days a week because we believe the best ideas happen when great people collaborate face-to-face. We also value diverse perspectives and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds.

Ready to make an impact? Learn more at www.instawork.com/about.