Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Robotics Data)
Core
Define and implement data collection strategies, build curation pipelines, and develop analysis frameworks for robotics datasets to improve robot learning model performance.
Role type
Senior IC data scientist (robotics data)
Builds
Robotics datasets (manipulation, navigation, sensor logs), data pipelines, and interactive visualization dashboards.
Domain
Robotics + Data Science
Deliverable
production ML models | dashboards & analysis (via careerplan.io/jobs/1970393556866701-member-of-technical-staff-microsoft-robotics-robotics-data-at-microsoft)
Required skills
statistical analysis, data pipeline engineering, data visualization, Python (Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn), hypothesis testing, causal inference, data governance
Preferred skills
robotics data pipelines, large-scale data processing frameworks, machine learning model evaluation
Technologies
Power BI, Plotly, D3.js, Streamlit, Grafana, Apache Spark, Databricks, Azure Data Factory, DVC, MLflow
Responsibilities
Specify demonstration coverage and environmental diversity targets for data collection campaigns; build and maintain data curation pipelines for ingestion, cleaning, validation, and versioning; develop frameworks to quantify dataset characteristics and identify biases; create interactive dashboards for exploring dataset properties and model metrics; collaborate on experiments measuring data impact on model performance; formulate data science roadmaps; apply statistical techniques to analyze robot performance and failure modes; write efficient Python code for data processing and analysis; adhere to ethics and privacy policies for data collection.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
