Instawork is looking to leverage its AI-first approach to supercharge its online labor marketplace and create economic opportunities for local businesses and skilled hourly workers. Specifically, the Instawork Robotics ML Lead will own the technology strategy for physical AI training data, which is uniquely valuable for robotics and physical AI training, aiming to create the highest-quality, highest-diversity dataset for training robotics foundation models.
Requirements
- at least 8 years of programming and/or engineering leadership experience, excluding internships.
- at least 2 years of professional experience building ML or CV models for robotics or autonomous vehicle applications.
- expertise in distributed systems, cloud computing on AWS infrastructure, and scalable data processing for large-scale datasets.
- identifying and translating techniques from academic research and frontier labs into production systems.
- building new-to-world systems
- 5+ years experience designing or architecting production distributed systems
- Experience shipping production code at an early-stage or mid-stage startup
Responsibilities
- plan, architect, and build the data labeling and enrichment pipeline at the foundation of Instawork Robotics’ data offering.
- identify and implement continuous improvements to our data pipeline to improve efficiency, scalability, and quality.
- develop methodologies and analytics to measure the quality and performance of our dataset and ML models.
- stay on top of academic research and industry best practices related to robotics learning and training.
- Work closely with robotics leadership, data ops, QA, and other engineering teams to ensure alignment from concept to deployment.
- Guide mid and senior-level engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and architectural discussions, raising the technical bar across the organization.
Other
- An mid-career developer
- A machine learning expert
- An innovator
- A problem-solver
- Experience as an engineering team leader or software development manager
- Comfort and presence leading technical discussions with external partners and customers
- The base salary for this position is $240,000 - $260,000
- This position is eligible for equity in the form of stock options
