Robot Learning Generalist

GeneralistSan Francisco, CA
Hybrid

About The Position

This is a deeply cross-functional, execution-oriented role at the center of our robotics stack. As an Robot Learning Generalist, you will ensure that robots, data, models, and evaluations all come together into a tight, high-velocity feedback loop. You won’t sit purely in ML research, robotics controls, hardware, or operations — you will operate horizontally across all of them. In practice, you will help design tasks, coordinate robot data collection, kick off training jobs, run evaluations, analyze results, and ensure robots are physically ready for rollouts. You may build physical benchmarks, lightly modify hardware setups, test third-party tooling, and write documentation that enables others to replicate and scale your work. This role is about making the entire system move faster. If something is blocking model progress — whether it’s missing data, unclear task definitions, misconfigured hardware, broken eval scripts, or unclear documentation — you fix it, or find the right person to fix it. You are the connective tissue between research, infrastructure, hardware, and field operations. This role sits on the front lines of scaling our robot fleet — both for internal R&D and external product deployments. As our robots expand in number, capability, and customer exposure, the complexity and leverage of this role grows with it. Career growth here is directly tied to the scale and impact of our robots in the real world. The more surface area you can reliably operationalize — across data collection, training loops, evaluation rigor, and deployment readiness — the more influence and ownership you will earn. If you want to grow alongside a rapidly scaling embodied AI system and shape how robots move from research to widespread deployment and applications, this role offers unusually high leverage.

Requirements

  • Have hands-on experience with robot data collection, evaluation, or deployment
  • Have trained or fine-tuned ML models and understand the full lifecycle from data → training → evaluation
  • Are comfortable running experiments and tracking real-world metrics across multiple model variants
  • Enjoy operating across software, hardware, and physical systems
  • Have some exposure to basic EE/ME tasks (wiring, mounting sensors, assembling fixtures, debugging hardware)
  • Are highly organized and can coordinate multiple moving parts simultaneously
  • Write clear, structured documentation
  • Prefer execution and iteration speed over theoretical purity
  • Like being the person who “just makes it work”

Responsibilities

  • Designing new robotic tasks and benchmarks to evaluate model capabilities
  • Procuring materials and building lightweight physical benchmarks (e.g., Montessori task boards, manipulation setups)
  • Coordinating robot data collection efforts across internal operators and partners
  • Ensuring robots are properly configured, calibrated, and ready for rollouts and evaluations
  • Launching model training jobs and tracking experiments across multiple variants
  • Running structured evaluations and measuring real-world success rates
  • Analyzing results and closing feedback loops with ML researchers
  • Beta testing internal and third-party tools for teaching robots new skills
  • Writing clear documentation and playbooks so others can reproduce workflows
  • Identifying operational bottlenecks and improving system throughput end-to-end
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