Robot Infrastructure Engineer Collection Tooling

Applied Intuition Inc. is powering the future of physical AI. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion the Silicon Valley company is creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to every moving machine on the planet. Applied Intuition services the automotive defense trucking construction mining and agriculture industries in three core areas: tools and infrastructure operating systems and autonomy. Eighteen of the top 20 global automakers as well as the United States military and its allies trust the companys solutions to deliver physical intelligence. Applied Intuition is headquartered in Sunnyvale California with offices in Washington D.C.; San Diego; Ft. Walton Beach Florida; Ann Arbor Michigan; London; Stuttgart; Munich; Stockholm; Bangalore; Seoul; and Tokyo. Learn more at .

We are an in-office company and our expectation is that full-time employees primarily work from their Applied Intuition office 5 days a week. However we also recognize the importance of flexibility and trust our employees to manage their schedules responsibly. This may include occasional remote work starting the day with morning meetings from home before heading to the office or leaving earlier when needed to accommodate family commitments. This in-office expectation does not apply to contractor positions

Applied Intuition is building a robot learning platform on Dana its physical AI platform: the data infrastructure and training intelligence a company needs to make any robot learn an industrial task and keep improving it. The robotics team builds that platform and uses it to deliver robot autonomy on customer lines training evaluating and deploying policies on real robots doing real industrial tasks. Everyone on the team works hands-on with hardware and sees their work reach customers.

As a Robot Infrastructure Engineer focused on collection tooling you will make high-quality robot demonstrations and human corrections easy to capture and use. You will build the teleoperation workflows quality checks and ingestion tools that turn a session at the robot into training data the team can trust. This is a tooling role not a role running a large collection operation.

We are open to candidates at different experience levels who meet the requirements. We value demonstrated work on real systems including equivalent practical experience over a particular degree or title.

• Build teleoperation and operator tools for leader arms VR and other interfaces including calibration action mapping latency and reliable recording.

• Implement episode workflows for task instructions start and stop resets annotations success labels and human takeover keeping a clean boundary between policy actions and human corrections.

• Build collection quality checks for frame drops timestamp alignment missing signals calibration validity and incomplete episodes with feedback operators can act on immediately.

• Build collection specifications and adapters that validate data delivered by external partners against task requirements schemas calibration and provenance.

• Keep raw recordings as the source of truth and make normalization and export to training formats reproducible.

• Show collection progress and coverage against the task so the team collects the missing variations and hard cases not more of the same.

• Test everything on real robots and document setup and troubleshooting so engineers operators and partners can run collection without you in the room.

• Built data collection teleoperation sensor recording or human-in-the-loop tooling used on real robots or autonomous systems and validated it on hardware.

• Strong Python skills and software engineering fundamentals including APIs tests versioned schemas and debugging data pipelines.

• Experience with synchronized video robot state actions or other multimodal time-series data.

• Working knowledge of coordinate frames sensor calibration data provenance and how collection errors show up in trained models.

• Experience building tools for other people watching them fail in real use and simplifying without hiding data-quality problems.

• The ability to turn a task description into an executable collection workflow together with learning hardware and operations colleagues.

• Experience with ROS 2 MCAP LeRobot HDF5 or adapters between robotics datasets.

• Experience with VR teleoperation leader-follower systems motion retargeting haptics or takeover-based learning.

• Experience building video and trajectory inspection annotation dataset validation or data grading tools.

• Experience with sensor fusion offline trajectory reconstruction coverage analysis or active data collection.

Compensation at Applied Intuition for eligible roles includes base salary equity and benefits. Base salary is a single component of the total compensation package which may also include equity in the form of options and/or restricted stock units comprehensive health dental vision life and disability insurance coverage 401k retirement benefits with employer match learning and wellness stipends and paid time off. Note that benefits are subject to change and may vary based on jurisdiction of employment.

Applied Intuition pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum intended target base salary for new hire salaries for the position. The actual base salary offered to a successful candidate will additionally be influenced by a variety of factors including experience credentials & certifications educational attainment skill level requirements interview performance and the level and scope of the position.

Dont meet every single requirement If youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt align perfectly with every qualification in the job description we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Applied Intuition is an equal opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor. Consequently the parties agree that as applicable they will abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a) 41 CFR 60-300.5(a) and 41 CFR 60-741.5(a) and that these laws are incorporated herein by reference. These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or national origin. These regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin protected veteran status or disability. The parties also agree that as applicable they will abide by the requirements of Executive Order 13496 (29 CFR Part 471 Appendix A to Subpart A) relating to the notice of employee rights under federal labor laws.

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