Human Archive
Multimodal data provider for robotics and world modeling
Company facts
- Founded
- 2026
- Employees
- 100
- Headquarters
- United States
About
We’re archiving the physical world for embodied intelligence by collecting and labeling aligned multimodal data. To build dexterous and perceptive robots that generalize robustly, we need massive amounts of real-world data across multiple modalities and environments. We have thought deeply about the fine line between biomimicry and its application to humanoid systems. Based on this research, we design and deploy custom hardware across residential and manufacturing settings. We then post-process the resulting data through internal QA, anonymization, and annotation pipelines to deliver diverse, high-fidelity datasets at scale to frontier labs developing robotics foundation models and general-purpose robotics companies. We believe we are at a historic inflection point, with a unique opportunity to leave a dent on humanity and reshape physical labor markets forever. That's why our team dropped out of Stanford and Berkeley and moved to Asia to collect the world’s largest annotated multimodal dataset.
Open positions

Head of Engineering Operations
About Human Archive Human Archive is a research lab backed by Y Combinator focused on modeling human embodied intelligence. Humans are the most sophisticated biological systems we have ever observed, yet we still do…

Member of Technical Staff, India
Full-stack generalist who designs, builds, deploys and debugs the internal software platform behind Human Archive's large-scale data collection and annotation operation — schemas, APIs, annotator tooling, ingest and reporting. Primarily Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL and React/TypeScript, running on AWS.

Operations Manager (YC-Backed, High-Growth Startup)
Growth measured in months, not years. Direct access to the founding team. Own a live site from day one. Human Archive builds the datasets that teach robots to work with their hands, captured from real people on factory…

Head of Talent Acquisition
We’re looking for a Head of Talent Acquisition to own hiring and core people operations at Human Archive. This is not a role for someone who wants to build slow recruiting systems. We need someone who can move…

Chief of Staff
About the role Human Archive (YC W26) is hiring someone to lead our end-to-end data annotation operations. You will work directly with the founder to build and manage a high-performing annotator workforce for robotics…

Operations Manager (on-site)
About Human Archive Human Archive is a data lab modeling human embodied intelligence. We're researchers from Stanford, Berkeley, NYU GRAIL, UPenn GRASP, JHU Robotics and national robotics champions, backed by Y…

Operations Manager
About the role Human Archive runs large-scale field deployments to collect egocentric robotics data. We are hiring a Field Operations Manager to own the day-to-day execution of these deployments. You will coordinate…

Embedded / Electrical Engineer
About Human Archive Human Archive is a research lab backed by Y Combinator focused on modeling human embodied intelligence. Humans are the most sophisticated biological systems we have ever observed, yet we still do…

Firmware Engineer
About Human Archive Human Archive is a research lab backed by Y Combinator focused on modeling human embodied intelligence. Humans are the most sophisticated biological systems we have ever observed, yet we still do…

Mechanical Engineer
About Human Archive Human Archive is a research lab backed by Y Combinator focused on modeling human embodied intelligence. Humans are the most sophisticated biological systems we have ever observed, yet we still do…

Operations
About Human Archive Human Archive is a research lab focused on modeling human embodied intelligence. Humans are the most sophisticated biological systems we have ever observed, yet we still do not fully understand…

Research Engineer
About Human Archive Human Archive is a research lab backed by Y Combinator focused on modeling human embodied intelligence. Humans are the most sophisticated biological systems we have ever observed, yet we still do…

Head of Operations
About Human Archive Human Archive is a research lab backed by Y Combinator focused on modeling human embodied intelligence. Humans are the most sophisticated biological systems we have ever observed, yet we still do…

Machine Learning Engineer
About Human Archive Human Archive is a research lab focused on modeling human embodied intelligence. Humans are the most sophisticated biological systems we have ever observed, yet we still do not fully understand…

Head of Engineering
About Human Archive Human Archive is a research lab focused on modeling human embodied intelligence. Humans are the most sophisticated biological systems we have ever observed, yet we still do not fully understand…

Industrial Designer
About Human Archive Human Archive is a robotics data lab founded by Stanford and UC Berkeley dropouts. We work alongside frontier robotics labs and foundation model research groups to collect large-scale, real-world,…

QA / Hardware Test Engineer
About Human Archive Human Archive is a robotics data lab founded by Stanford and UC Berkeley dropouts. We work alongside frontier robotics labs and foundation model research groups to collect large-scale, real-world,…

Firmware Engineer
About Human Archive Human Archive is a robotics data lab founded by Stanford and UC Berkeley dropouts. We work alongside frontier robotics labs and foundation model research groups to collect large-scale, real-world,…

Embedded / Electrical Engineer
About Human Archive Human Archive is a robotics data lab founded by Stanford and UC Berkeley dropouts. We work alongside frontier robotics labs and foundation model research groups to collect large-scale, real-world,…