RoboForce

Senior / Staff AI Research Engineer, Data Infrastructure

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29 days ago
Milpitas, CA, USASenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$185k - $325k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain multimodal data-collection pipelines for teleoperation devices and UMI hardware, including synchronization, versioning, and distributed storage.
  • Build annotation tooling and data-curation workflows for quality filtering, deduplication, episode scoring, and domain reweighting.
  • Develop post-SFT reinforcement-learning infrastructure for demonstration reward scoring, failure-pattern mining, and retraining feedback.
  • Build evaluation and test infrastructure to log on-robot policy rollouts, capture structured results, and provide diagnostics.
  • Collaborate with ML researchers on data schemas, episode formats, and pipeline interfaces for VLA and manipulation-policy training.
  • Architect scalable cloud and on-premise storage and retrieval systems for heterogeneous robot data, including vision, proprioception, action, and language data.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field with 5+ years of experience.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and experience building production-grade data pipelines and ETL systems.
  • Hands-on experience with large-scale dataset management, versioning, deduplication, quality filtering, and distributed storage.
  • Experience with post-training infrastructure such as SFT pipelines, reward modeling, or reinforcement-learning training loops.
  • Familiarity with PyTorch, JAX, and ML training workflows sufficient for close collaboration with research teams.
  • Bonus: experience with teleoperation, UMI, GELLO, or similar robotics data-collection hardware.
  • Bonus: familiarity with imitation learning, behavior cloning, VLA/VLM fine-tuning, evaluation infrastructure, experiment tracking, rollout logging, or human-in-the-loop annotation systems.

Benefits

  • Competitive stock options and equity programs.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance and a 401(k) plan.
  • Visa sponsorship and green card support for qualified candidates.
  • Lunches and dinners, a fully stocked kitchen, and regular team-building events.
  • Full-time U.S. position requiring five days per week of in-office collaboration.

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