Benji Barash

Co-Founder & CEO @ Roboto AI

About

Founder & CEO of Roboto — the analytics engine for robotics and physical AI 🔮Robots and autonomous systems generate huge volumes of complex sensor data and logs. Roboto makes it possible to search and analyze this data at scale, using AI to surface insights faster.Before Roboto, I led engineering and science teams at Amazon Robotics and worked on safety-critical robots, simulation and autonomy.📍 Seattle, WA📧 benji [at] roboto [dot] ai

Country

United States

City

Seattle

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Python, Programming, C++, Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics, Simulation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), C, Java, JavaScript, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Haskell, Applied Machine Learning

Experience

Co-Founder & CEO

Roboto AI

2023-1 - Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

Seattle, WA

Automating analysis of robotics data 🤖 - 50 Most Innovative Robotics Companies of 2025 🏆 - AWS & NVIDIA Physical AI Fellowship 2026 🧠 - Customers building drones, surgical robots & more

Entrepreneur In Residence

Ai2

2022-1 - 2022-12 · 1 yr

Seattle, Washington, United States

Leverage the latest research in robotics and AI to incubate new startups. The AI2 Incubator was started at the Allen Institute for AI and is backed by Sequoia, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Madrona, Two Sigma Ventures & others.

Senior Applied Science Manager

Amazon

2020-2 - 2022-1 · 2 yrs

Seattle, Washington, United States

Robotics engineering leadership. Led development of simulation platforms, robotics middleware, and autonomy algorithms. Managed teams of software engineers and applied scientists. Built a fast, high-fidelity and deterministic simulation platform for Amazon Robotics and Amazon Prime Air. Powered millions of simulations to develop safety-critical modules. Worked on graphics engines, modelling, scenario generation, cloud infrastructure, path planning, perception, and controls. Authored plans and architecture for DO-178C certification of avionics and perception modules. Interfaced with government regulators and FAA engineering representatives. Led initiative to align robotics middleware and simulation frameworks being developed across Amazon.

Senior Software Engineer

Amazon

2019-3 - 2020-2 · 1 yr

Seattle, Washington, United States

Technical lead and software engineering manager, focused on robotics simulation and drone autonomy. Conducted 250+ interviews for a variety of roles across Amazon as a technical assessor and bar raiser.

Software Engineer

Amazon

2016-10 - 2019-3 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Seattle, Washington, United States

Developed multi-sensor platforms for robot perception. Integrated and optimized GPU modules into embedded platform architecture. Subsequent work on machine learning and simulation.

Software Engineer

Amazon

2015-6 - 2016-10 · 1 yr 5 mos

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Founding engineer on the Prime Air drone team in Cambridge, UK. Designed and deployed dozens of edge devices to automate operations. Multiple patents filed and granted. Hired an engineering team, and then launched Amazon’s first customer deliveries by drone.

Software Engineer

Amazon

2014-6 - 2014-9 · 4 mos

Seattle, Washington, United States

Platform engineering at Prime Video. Deployed software to millions of customers worldwide.

Software Engineer

Amazon

2013-6 - 2013-9 · 4 mos

London, England, United Kingdom

Developed streaming technologies for Prime Video. Launched service on new devices.

Education

University of Bristol

Computer Science

XMOS Prize: Top Computer Science Student Engineering Faculty Prize: Best Master’s Creative Technology Project IPL Prize: Best Group Project Netcraft Prize: Top Students in Computer Science