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Research Engineer, Robotics Evals

HUD· Engineering & Research
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San Francisco, Singapore, Remote (Asia), Remote (North America)$135k - $230kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Research Engineer for the Robotics team to develop datasets and evals for embodied AI systems by turning research needs into data specifications, building validation tools, and running experiments to understand how data quality affects model performance.

Responsibilities

  • Research the data needs of robot learning and physical AI systems, and turn them into concrete dataset and evaluation specifications
  • Define data schemas, annotations, ground truth, and quality standards across robotics data types
  • Design collection and review protocols that external data providers can execute reliably
  • Build tools and validation workflows to audit datasets, identify quality issues, and give providers actionable feedback
  • Run experiments and analyze model behavior to understand how data quality, coverage, and structure affect performance
  • Work with HUD’s research and engineering teams, and when needed with data vendors and buyers, to improve robotics data offerings

Qualifications

  • Experience in robotics, robot learning, embodied AI, or closely related multimodal research
  • Proficiency in Python and experience building data processing, analysis, or evaluation tools
  • Experience turning research questions into dataset specifications, experiments, and measurable quality criteria
  • Strong understanding of what makes robotics data useful for training or evaluation—and where it can be misleading
  • Attention to detail and the ability to spot subtle errors, coverage gaps, and failure modes in complex data
  • Experience building research tools or pipelines without a fully prescribed roadmap

Skills

Required:PythonData validation

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • 100% covered top-of-the-line medical, dental, and vision (US and Singapore employees)
  • Lunch and dinner for in-office employees
  • Company-wide holiday break (Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day) on top of PTO and paid holidays
  • 401k with a 4% match
  • Equinox membership and commuter benefits (US) and health/wellness stipend (Singapore)
  • Unlimited access to tokens for AI tools
  • Two top-floor offices in San Francisco and Singapore
  • Annual travel budget to visit either office
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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