Member of Technical Staff: Policy Evaluation & Experiment Infrastructure

You will build the tooling that lets the autonomy team measure whether our robot policies are actually getting better—in simulation and on real hardware. This is a high-leverage engineering role at the center of the research loop, close to real robot behavior, with strong mentorship and room to grow quickly alongside senior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Policy Evaluation: Build and maintain the pipelines that evaluate robot policies—in sim and on hardware—and the experiment-tracking tooling the team uses daily.
• Metrics for Robot Behavior: Implement task-success metrics, dashboards, and automated checks that turn messy robot rollouts into trustworthy, comparable signal.
• Iteration Speed: Improve the speed and reliability of the experiment loop so researchers can evaluate policies faster.
• Debugging: Track down issues across the evaluation stack and in policy rollouts—from flaky jobs to misleading metrics to surprising robot behavior.
• Growth: Learn the autonomy stack alongside senior engineers and take on growing ownership.

Requirements

• Software Fundamentals: Solid engineering fundamentals and a bias toward building reliable, well-tested tooling.
• Robot Policies: Hands-on experience working with robot policies or robotic systems—running, evaluating, or debugging them (research, projects, or industry).
• ML Systems Interest: Genuine interest in ML systems and evaluation, and enthusiasm for working where research meets real robots.
• Delivery: The ability to take a well-scoped problem and deliver it end to end.
• Curiosity & Drive: Eagerness to learn quickly from feedback and code review.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience evaluating or benchmarking robot policies in simulation or on hardware.
• Exposure to ML experimentation, evaluation, or data pipelines.
• Familiarity with Python and with cloud or compute infrastructure.

Benefits

• Competitive total compensation program, including salary, annual cash bonus, and company equity.
• Company-subsidized insurance programs.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Flexible PTO.
• Daily lunch.
• Other benefits.