Robotics AI Automation Engineer

Intuitive; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive's Future Forward organization is seeking a Senior AI & Automation Engineer to build AI tools, automation systems, and evaluation capabilities that help researchers and engineers train, test, and evaluate models faster on real robots.

You will leverage existing AI technologies while developing new solutions—agent-driven workflows, APIs, and automation frameworks that support engineering and research activities.

Qualifications

• AI tooling and automation experience in research environments.
• Ability to design and implement automation for experiments and data workflows.
• Experience with integrating AI tools and engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Build and integrate AI tools, APIs, and agent workflows that automate engineering and research work across the team.
• Automate the training and fine-tuning workflow, from setting up experiments to launching, tracking, and comparing runs.
• Build automation and integration workflows that help researchers and engineers evaluate new ideas in simulation and on real robots, quickly, reliably, and at scale.
• Design evaluations and experiments that show, with statistical confidence, whether a change is a real improvement.
• Build logging, analysis, and debugging tools that help the team understand results and failures, and that turn robot sessions into data the team can train on.
• Make what you build reliable, secure, and safe to run, with human approval where it matters and responsible use of AI throughout.
• Evaluate emerging AI tools, models, and technologies, and bring in the ones that deliver measurable impact.
• Measure the impact of what you build, document it clearly, and make successful tools part of how the team operates.

Skills

AI tooling

Automation

APIs

Simulation

Data analysis

Job description

Intuitive's Future Forward organization is seeking a Senior AI & Automation Engineer to build AI tools, automation systems, and evaluation capabilities that help researchers and engineers train, test, and evaluate models faster on real robots.

You will leverage existing AI technologies while developing new solutions—agent-driven workflows, APIs, and automation frameworks that support engineering and research activities.