Robot Infrastructure Engineer - Collection Tooling

The role

You will build teleoperation workflows, quality checks, and ingestion tools to capture robot demonstrations and human corrections. This role focuses on creating the tooling used to turn robot sessions into training data.

What you will do

• Build teleoperation and operator tools for leader arms, VR, and other interfaces
• Implement episode workflows for task instructions, resets, annotations, and human takeover
• Build collection quality checks for frame drops, timestamp alignment, and missing signals
• Build collection specifications and adapters to validate data from external partners
• Keep raw recordings as the source of truth and make normalization and export reproducible
• Show collection progress and coverage against the task
• Test everything on real robots and document setup and troubleshooting

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechatronics, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent
• 1+ years of professional experience
• 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

Nice to have

• 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

Benefits

• Base salary
• Equity (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
• Paid time off

About the company

Applied Intuition, Inc. is a Silicon Valley company creating digital infrastructure for physical AI. It services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries.