AIM (Autonomous Intelligent Machines) 135k base + 200k stock (over 4 years), employee number 18, autonomous construction vehicles Bloomfield Technologies: 125k base + 12000 options (value anywhere from 48k to 135k or higher according to the company), employee number 20 ish, autonomous farm vehicles New grad 0 YoE. AIM has better VC’s (Elad Gil) and is in Seattle vs Bloomfield (Pittsburgh). Bloomfield seems much more relaxed while AIM told me I may have to work on weekends. Bloomfield told me I’d work on a project thats pretty related to Deep Learning (my interest) AIM just told me I’m a full stack engineer, need to do whatever the clients need. I could never get a clear answer of what I would solve from the founder. Pls tell me why you would pick a certain option too!
Sounds reasonable, thanks
Did you find out anything more about AIM? Or just turn them down?
Didn’t find anything, accepted their offer though
nice. what was the deciding factor?
At 0 Yoe, I think either would be good. AIM is raising some serious red flags with their marketing material...relies way too much on the prestige of their team. I have seen this with a few robotics companies, and none of that bs matters. On the money side I think $125k in Pittsburgh will last longer. But I am not familiar with how robust Agtech is these days.
What exactly matters for a robotics company?
Tbh, I don't know the secret sauce. But most seem to do the exact same thing (ROS + custom hardware with some derivative ML models. Garbage reliability because ain't nobody got time to test) and just try to market it as groundbreaking. I would get my experience and get out.