Generalist
Research Assistant
$150K–$200K
San Francisco Bay Area (San Mateo) · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jun 25, 2026
- Experience
- Less than 3 years of machine learning research experience.
About the job
Runs and analyzes robot experiments and evaluations to help improve embodied foundation models and make research workflows more reliable.
What you'll do
- Set up robot tasks and equipment, collect data, and run structured experiments and evaluations.
- Measure and analyze real-world results, accounting for controls, repeatability, statistical rigor, and bias.
- Communicate findings and document reproducible workflows for researchers and engineers.
What they ask for
- Less than 3 years of machine learning research experience.
- Careful experimental design, including attention to controls, sample sizes, variance, and confounding factors.
- Hands-on comfort with physical systems, equipment, materials, or instruments.
- Clear communication and ability to coordinate experiments, data, model versions, metrics, and documentation.
Nice to have
- Experience with experiments, lab or field studies, data collection workflows, or structured evaluations.
- Some exposure to programming, data analysis, robotics, hardware, electronics, mechanical assembly, or experimental tooling.
Pay
$150K – $200K (base salary)
AI focus
Supports development and evaluation of robot foundation models by running experiments, collecting data, helping kick off training jobs, and testing tools for teaching robots new skills.
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