Research Evaluation Analyst

Rhoda; Mountain View, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Rhoda AI is building next-gen generalist robots and seeks an Operations Support role to assist research with high-quality experiments and data collection in Mountain View. You will translate research needs into concrete experiment plans, help set up scenes, and manage end-to-end data delivery with strong attention to data quality and traceability.

The role emphasizes hands-on execution, problem-solving, and ownership, with collaboration across Research and platform teams to improve workflows and

Qualifications

• Some understanding of robotics, ML, or experimental workflows.
• Computer science, engineering, or other technical background; hands-on coding experience preferred.
• Rigorous and detail-oriented, with the ability to understand the intent behind an experiment rather than simply follow instructions.
• Strong hands-on execution, problem-solving, and ownership.
• Experience in robotics, data collection, lab operations, testing, or QA preferred.

Responsibilities

• Translate research needs into clear experiment plans, operating procedures, and data collection protocols.
• Support researchers with robot data collection, including task setup, scene/object preparation, pilot execution, and data QA.
• Own experiment execution end-to-end: model or task handoff station readiness execution QA results/data delivery.
• Train and coordinate research operations pilots; ensure consistency across people, shifts, and stations.
• Identify and troubleshoot issues related to hardware, setup, operators, data quality, and experiment execution.
• Maintain robot stations, resets, randomization, metadata, and experiment traceability.
• Track data quality, throughput, and operational bottlenecks; continuously improve research workflows.
• Partner closely with Research, Robot Data, and platform/infrastructure teams.

Skills

Robotics concepts

Data collection

Experiment workflows

Python coding

Education

CS/Engineering background

Tools

Python

Git

Job description

At Rhoda AI, we’re building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $450M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality.

Mission

Support Research with high-quality, reliable robot experiments and data collection. Turn research needs into well-executed experiments, consistent operations, and trusted data that enable fast iteration.

Responsibilities

• Translate research needs into clear experiment plans, operating procedures, and data collection protocols.

• Support researchers with robot data collection, including task setup, scene/object preparation, pilot execution, and data QA.

• Own experiment execution end-to-end: model or task handoff station readiness execution QA results/data delivery.

• Train and coordinate research operations pilots; ensure consistency across people, shifts, and stations.

• Identify and troubleshoot issues related to hardware, setup, operators, data quality, and experiment execution.

• Maintain robot stations, resets, randomization, metadata, and experiment traceability.

• Track data quality, throughput, and operational bottlenecks; continuously improve research workflows.

• Partner closely with Research, Robot Data, and platform/infrastructure teams.

What We’re Looking For

• Some understanding of robotics, ML, or experimental workflows.

• Computer science, engineering, or other technical background; hands-on coding experience preferred.

• Rigorous and detail-oriented, with the ability to understand the intent behind an experiment rather than simply follow instructions.

• Strong hands-on execution, problem-solving, and ownership.

• Experience in robotics, data collection, lab operations, testing, or QA preferred.

Success Looks Like

Researchers can quickly hand off an experiment or data collection request and receive reliable execution, high-quality data, and well-documented results with minimal operational overhead.