Robots and Pencils

Robots and Pencils is an applied artificial intelligence engineering firm that builds business architecture, designing and shipping AI co-workers that integrate into enterprise operations. The company serves clients across consumer products and retail, education, energy, financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing. Founded in 2009, the firm maintains delivery centers in Canada, the United States, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. Its teams consist of senior engineering talent with an average of 15 plus years of experience, functioning as an alternative to traditional global systems integrators with a focus on Amazon Web Services.

The open roles indicate that Robots and Pencils is building senior-level technical teams focused on machine learning, cloud architecture, and agentic artificial intelligence systems. Current open positions include roles such as Principal Data Scientist, Agentic AI Technical Lead, Staff Engineer or AI Builder, Staff Cloud Architect, and Staff Machine Learning Engineer specializing in AWS Trainium and SageMaker. These positions require senior engineering and architecture expertise to lead complex programs and deliver production-ready artificial intelligence capabilities for enterprise clients.

Regarding location and work structure, the available job listings specify remote work options. Open positions are structured for remote candidates located in Canada and the United States, with specific roles designating remote availability within California as well as broader US and Canadian remote regions. The hiring configuration emphasizes senior individual contributors and technical leaders capable of owning end-to-end architecture and multi-domain engineering workloads remotely.