Robotics Data Engine Engineer — Teleoperation & Deployment

Proception Inc.; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Access to dexterous robots

Collaborative environment with leading

YC backed investors

Leadership opportunities

Job summary

Proception Inc. in Mountain View, CA seeks a Robotics Engineer/Researcher to own the data engine from teleoperation demonstration through curation, to on-robot deployment. You will build high-throughput, reliable systems that convert robot time into training data and trained policies into real-world robots.

The role emphasizes end-to-end data pipelines, multimodal sensor integration, and deploying learned policies on real hardware in collaboration with robotics and AI teams.

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Robotics, CS, Electrical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Strong Python and C++ in Linux: robust, maintainable systems code for real hardware.
• Hands-on robotics experience: hardware bring-up, sensor/actuator integration, debugging on physical systems.
• Experience building teleoperation and demonstration-collection systems and scaling throughput and operator efficiency.
• Experience building data pipelines for multimodal robot data: ingestion, time synchronization, storage, curation, filtering, annotation tooling.
• Experience deploying learned policies on real robots: real-time inference, latency optimization, safety monitors.
• Comfortable with multimodal sensor streams and synchronized capture (RGB/depth, proprioception, tactile, force-torque).
• Data-quality mindset: metrics, visualization, automated QA, regression testing from collection to deployment.
• Experience with ROS 2 or similar middleware, real-time systems, and containerized deployment across fleets.
• Familiarity with robot learning workflows (imitation learning, vision-language-action models).
• Experience with dexterous hands, tactile sensing, or contact-rich manipulation setups.

Responsibilities

• Design and build teleoperation and demonstration-collection stack for throughput and data quality.
• Run data collection end-to-end: task design, operator onboarding, collection on real robots.
• Build pipeline from robot to training set: multimodal data ingestion, synchronization, storage, curation, annotation tooling.
• Develop QA, metrics, and visualization tooling to keep datasets consistent and trustworthy.
• Deploy trained policies to real hardware: real-time inference, latency optimization, safety monitors.
• Integrate sensors and hardware across collection and deployment rigs.
• Collaborate with AI, hardware, and perception teams to close the loop from deployment results back into data collection.

Skills

Python

C++

Robotics experience

Teleoperation systems

Data pipelines

Policy deployment

ROS 2

Imitation learning

Dexterous hands

Sensor fusion

Containerization

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Robotics/CS/EE or related

Tools

ROS 2

Docker

Linux

Job description

Proception Inc. in Mountain View, CA seeks a Robotics Engineer/Researcher to own the data engine from teleoperation demonstration through curation, to on-robot deployment. You will build high-throughput, reliable systems that convert robot time into training data and trained policies into real-world robots.

The role emphasizes end-to-end data pipelines, multimodal sensor integration, and deploying learned policies on real hardware in collaboration with robotics and AI teams.