ML Engineer - Instawork Robotics

About the role

The Instawork Robotics ML Engineer will help build and scale the technology powering physical AI training data.

Responsibilities

• Model Development - design, build, and maintain the data labeling and enrichment pipeline at the foundation of Instawork Robotics’ data offering.
• Pipeline Optimization - identify and implement continuous improvements to our data pipeline to improve efficiency, scalability, and quality.
• Dataset Quality - develop methodologies and analytics to measure the quality and performance of our dataset and ML models.
• Research Reviews - stay on top of academic research and industry best practices related to robotics learning and training.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration - work closely with robotics leadership, data ops, QA, and other engineering teams to ensure alignment from concept to deployment.

Requirements

• A mid-career developer, with 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, excluding internships.
• A machine learning engineer with a Master’s or PhD in an AI or ML-related field and 1+ years of professional experience building ML or CV models for robotics or autonomous vehicle applications.
• Experienced with data pipelines, with expertise in distributed systems, cloud computing on AWS infrastructure, and scalable data processing for large-scale datasets.
• An innovator, with a background in identifying and translating techniques from academic research and frontier labs into production systems.
• A problem-solver, who enjoys building new-to-world systems and applying creativity and grit to create value for our robotics partners.

Qualifications

• Nice-to-haves:
• - 3+ years experience designing or architecting production distributed systems
• - Experience shipping production code at an early-stage or mid-stage startup
• - Experience participating in technical discussions with external partners and customers

Benefits

• Base Salary: $170,000 - $200,000
• Equity in the form of stock options
• Instawork benefits, including:
• Variety of medical, dental, and vision plans with coverage beginning on the date of hire
• Flexible paid time off
• At least 8 paid company holidays annually
• Phone stipend
• Commuter stipend
• Supplemental pay on qualified leaves
• Employee health savings accounts (HSA) contribution
• Flexible spending plans
• 401K plan
• Perkspot - discount program through Lumity