Generalist
Robot Science Ops
$150K–$200K
San Francisco Bay Area (San Mateo) · On-site · Full-time · Posted Mar 24, 2026
About the job
Executes robot experiments and evaluations, coordinating data collection, training, analysis, and hardware readiness to create repeatable feedback loops for model research.
What you'll do
- Run robot experiments, evaluations, and real-world success-rate measurements; analyze findings with ML researchers.
- Design robotic tasks and benchmarks, coordinate data collection, and prepare robots for rollouts.
- Improve operational throughput and document reproducible workflows.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience with robot data collection, evaluation, or deployment.
- Conceptual understanding of modern ML training, fine-tuning, and inference life cycles.
- Comfort running experiments and tracking real-world metrics across model variants.
- Strong organization and clear, structured documentation.
Nice to have
- Exposure to basic EE/ME tasks such as wiring, sensor mounting, fixture assembly, or hardware debugging.
- Experience testing tools for teaching robots new skills.
Pay
$150K – $200K (base salary)
AI focus
Supports embodied model research through robot experiments, task benchmarks, evaluations, and feedback to ML researchers; does not focus on developing model architectures or core learning algorithms.
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