Robot Infrastructure Engineer - Collection Tooling
Core
Building data collection, teleoperation, and sensor recording tooling for robot learning platforms to capture high-quality demonstrations and human corrections on real hardware.
Role type
Senior IC robot infrastructure engineer (collection tooling)
Builds
Teleoperation workflows, quality checks, ingestion tools, and data adapters for robot learning platforms
Domain
Robotics + Physical AI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Python, software engineering fundamentals, APIs, versioned schemas, debugging data pipelines, synchronized video, robot state, actions, multimodal time-series data, coordinate frames, sensor calibration, data provenance
Preferred skills
ROS 2, MCAP, LeRobot, HDF5, VR teleoperation, leader-follower systems, motion retargeting, haptics, video/trajectory inspection, dataset validation, sensor fusion, offline trajectory reconstruction, coverage analysis
Technologies
Python, ROS 2, MCAP, LeRobot, HDF5
Responsibilities
Build teleoperation and operator tools for leader arms, VR, and interfaces; Implement episode workflows for task instructions and human takeover; Build collection quality checks for frame drops and timestamp alignment; Build collection specifications and adapters for external partner data; Test tools on real robots and document setup/troubleshooting
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
