Robot Data-Collection Tools Engineer

Applied Electrodynamics, Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health benefits

401k with match

Paid time off

Wellness stipends

Job summary

Applied Intuition, Inc. is building a robot learning platform for real robots and industrial tasks. You will develop collection tooling, teleoperation workflows, and data-quality checks to turn robot sessions into trusted training data.

The role emphasizes hands-on work with hardware, APIs, and time-series data, with an in-office focus and occasional remote work where appropriate. Apply at [e-mail] for US-based roles.

Qualifications

• Strong Python skills and software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience with APIs, tests, versioned schemas, and debugging data pipelines.
• Experience with synchronized video, robot state, actions, or other multimodal time-series data.

Responsibilities

• Build teleoperation and operator tools for leader arms, VR, and other interfaces.
• Implement episode workflows for task instructions, start/stop, resets, annotations, and human takeover.
• Build collection quality checks for frame drops, timestamp alignment, missing signals, calibration validity.
• Create specifications/adapters to validate data from partners against task requirements.
• Keep raw recordings as truth and export training data reproducibly.
• Show progress and coverage to guide data collection on missing variations.
• Test on real robots and document setup and troubleshooting.

Skills

Python

APIs

Testing

Versioned schemas

Data pipelines

Tools

ROS 2

MCAP

LeRobot

HDF5

Job description

Applied Intuition, Inc. is building a robot learning platform for real robots and industrial tasks. You will develop collection tooling, teleoperation workflows, and data-quality checks to turn robot sessions into trusted training data.

The role emphasizes hands-on work with hardware, APIs, and time-series data, with an in-office focus and occasional remote work where appropriate. Apply at [e-mail] for US-based roles.