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Member of Technical Staff, Robotics Research

Johannesburg, Gauteng🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $200,000–$200,000🗓 2026-09-27

Core

Designing datasets, collection methods, and evaluation frameworks to power next-generation robot learning and perception systems.

Role type

Robotics Researcher (Data Strategy & Collection)

Builds

Scalable data pipelines and datasets for embodied AI and physical AI systems.

Domain

Robotics, Embodied AI, Computer Vision

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Robotics, Computer Vision, Multimodal Learning, Embodied AI, Applied ML Research, Data Schema Design, Experimentation, Technical Communication

Preferred skills

Experience at leading robotics/AI companies, Imitation Learning, Teleoperation, Robotics Hardware Integration, World Models

Technologies

Egocentric video, Teleop, UMI, Robot trajectories, Sensors, Simulation

Responsibilities

Research data needs for frontier robotics and physical AI; Design new datasets and collection methods; Define data schemas, annotations, and evaluations; Run experiments to optimize model performance; Collaborate with AI/robotics labs to build scalable data pipelines; Shape the company's robotics data strategy.

Seniority

Mid-Senior, hands-on IC

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