OUR MISSION
Equip autonomous robot developers with the best-in-class perception and real-time decision-making systems.
Welcome to Aliensense.
The Physical AI company.
The Physical AI company.
Aliensense is a product-driven robotics infrastructure company. We build the cognitive and physical infrastructure that allows autonomous machines to see, think, and act in the real world.
The Alien Code
Company has an openly nerdy and workaholic culture. You're fine here if you're either, or (best) a combination of both.
We don't build for procurement departments or suit-and-tie executives. We build for the robotics engineers in the trenches, the ones like us, debugging sensor drivers at 2 AM. Our mission is to take the "hard" out of hardware so you can focus on the truly important stuff. We serve the makers, because we are the same tribe.
In most companies, time is measured in quarters. At Aliensense we count minutes. Why? Because momentum is the only competitive advantage that truly builds up. We'd rather ship a prototype today and fix it tomorrow than debate the perfect architecture for a month. A wrong decision can be corrected; lost time is gone forever. If you aren't shipping, you aren't learning.
Experience is often just a fancy word for "doing the same thing for years." We don't care about how it's always been done. We care about our capability stack: what we can build today.
The world moves too fast for static expertise. At Aliensense are aggressive learners who believe in "collecting" new skills rather than polishing the old ones.
The world moves too fast for static expertise. At Aliensense are aggressive learners who believe in "collecting" new skills rather than polishing the old ones.
Being "easy to work with" isn't about being nice, it's about being permeable.
Does our code invite others to improve it? Do our teams welcome new ideas or defend old turf? We are building a culture, where good ideas can come from anywhere and travel everywhere. And the bad news...the bad news are not being tucked under the rug, to be easy to deal with.
Does our code invite others to improve it? Do our teams welcome new ideas or defend old turf? We are building a culture, where good ideas can come from anywhere and travel everywhere. And the bad news...the bad news are not being tucked under the rug, to be easy to deal with.
Building Inspiration
We are excited by how many modern companies are built, but there are a few whose vibe and values feel especially close to ours. We can't learn enough from them.
Thank you for the inspiration and the mood:
Thank you for the inspiration and the mood:
- 37signals. The incredible team of builders behind HEY, Fizzy and Basecamp.
- PostHog. We've learned so much from you on how to stop running from and actually thrive on our engineering nature.
- Teenage Engineering. Iconic user-centricity in design and maniacal attention to detail in internal hardware. Also, thank you for rejecting Nick's application last year, that's how we got the best leader for our Embedded Systems.
- Anduril. Special thanks to Trae Stephens for his feedback during his Abu Dhabi tour. His "Choose Good Quests" framework was a blessing when we pivoted from a pure sensor business.
- Professor Howard Yu. Sometimes it feels as every article is a guide made just for us, that's how much we can relate his writing to our daily running transformation life at a startup.