
Maihem provides an adaptable AI robot platform that allows users to intuitively direct robots for complex and dynamic workflows without manual reprogramming. Their generative AI platform focuses on industry-leading AI monitoring, testing, and red-teaming capabilities, ensuring performance, safety, and security. Key features include Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) testing, Agentic workflows, Customer Experience (CX) evaluation, and detection of Bias, Brand reputation issues, Toxicity, Overreach, Privacy (PII) leaks, and System access vulnerabilities. Maihem also offers test data generation, AI performance monitoring, human-in-the-loop reviews, automated reporting, simple integration via SDK or API, enterprise data security, and AI red-teaming with eval metric libraries. They have a presence in San Francisco and London.

Maihem provides an adaptable AI robot platform that allows users to intuitively direct robots for complex and dynamic workflows without manual reprogramming. Their generative AI platform focuses on industry-leading AI monitoring, testing, and red-teaming capabilities, ensuring performance, safety, and security. Key features include Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) testing, Agentic workflows, Customer Experience (CX) evaluation, and detection of Bias, Brand reputation issues, Toxicity, Overreach, Privacy (PII) leaks, and System access vulnerabilities. Maihem also offers test data generation, AI performance monitoring, human-in-the-loop reviews, automated reporting, simple integration via SDK or API, enterprise data security, and AI red-teaming with eval metric libraries. They have a presence in San Francisco and London.
What they do: No-code platform for AI/robotics adaptability, LLM robustness, safety testing, and synthetic test-data generation
Stage / YC: Y Combinator Winter 2024 (YC W24), Pre-Seed
Locations: San Francisco and London
Founders / Leadership: Max Ahrens (Co-founder & CEO), Eduardo Candela (Co-founder & CTO)
Employees: 7
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AI/robotics adaptability, LLM robustness, safety and performance testing
2023
Data and Analytics
500000
Participation in Y Combinator Winter 2024; company-stated backing also includes Moonfire and 2100 Ventures; third-party profiles list Pioneer Fund.
“Y Combinator; Moonfire; 2100 Ventures; Pioneer Fund”
Senior Robotics Perception & 3D Metrology Engineer
About Maihem At Maihem, our mission is to empower every manufacturer, no matter their scale, with intelligent robots to invent and build anything.
We are witnessing the start of a new industrial revolution—an era of rapid innovation and advanced manufacturing powered by AI and robotics. We aim to lead this shift by putting these tools into the hands of every manufacturer, ensuring the power to invent and build at scale isn’t a privilege of the few.
But this era of abundance depends on solving a systemic labor crisis. For any economy to advance its industry and secure its supply chains, it must address the work that no longer attracts a human workforce. We are building AI to handle the dull, dirty, and dangerous. By offloading the hazardous and the mundane to intelligent machines, we empower manufacturers to compete globally while driving prosperity locally. In doing so, we enable the creation of new, purposeful jobs—ensuring that the future of innovation remains human-centric, boundless, and accessible to all.
We are:
Founding Team Max Ahrens (Founder & CEO) : ML PhD + Postdoc (Oxford University); led AI research projects with the Alan Turing Institute and UK Ministry of Defence; ex-McKinsey.
Simon White (Founding Software Engineer): Former YC startup founder/CTO; ex-defence systems engineer.
Joel Kang (Founding Product Engineer): Former AI startup founder/CTO; ex-LinkedIn; product-minded engineer focused on shipping end-to-end systems.
Our Culture
Your Role As Maihem's Senior Robotic Perception Engineer , you will architect the vision and metrology foundations that make adaptable robotics possible. You'll design, build, and integrate the perception stack into our downstream planning, learning, and control systems.
You'll transform raw sensor data into sub-millimeter accurate geometry for collision-free robot planning and navigation. You'll apply your expertise in 3D computer vision, sensor fusion, and deep learning to plan, build, and deploy our perception stack. This is a hands-on role: you'll design the sensing setup, implement the core 3D pipeline, and ensure it's robust enough for production deployment with our industry partners.
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A note on our in-office culture: Our team works in the office five days a week—and we love it. It's a core part of our energetic startup culture. Please only apply if that excites you too.
Compensation Range: £100K - £150K
3+ years shipping real-world CV/3D systems beyond prototypes (robotics, inspection, metrology).
Hands-on experience with depth sensing (stereo/RGB-D/ToF/structured light/laser profiling) and the real-world tradeoffs.
Strong geometry fundamentals, including:
coordinate frames and transforms, rotations/quaternions
geometric error handling, including reprojection and calibration errors
registration concepts (feature-based + ICP-style alignment), outlier handling
Built calibration + validation tooling (repeatability tests, drift checks, confidence metrics)—not just “run the library.”
Strong fundamentals of programming in a team.
Comfortable debugging messy reality: reflective metal, smoke/spatter, lighting variation, partial occlusions.
Proven team player, clear communicator; you think first principles, you identify assumptions and test them methodically, you question the ‘why’ behind every decision.