Robotics Data Scientist, Research & Datasets (Remote)

micro1; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance reimbursement

Remote‑first workflow

Equity compensation

401(k) plan with company match

Job summary

micro1 is seeking a Robotics Researcher to advance data-centric robotics research, dataset design, and evaluation methods for embodied AI systems. You will collaborate with leading AI and robotics teams to translate frontier research challenges into scalable data solutions for real-world robotic applications.

You will design datasets, collection methods, and evaluation frameworks across sensors, video, and simulation, shaping micro1’s robotics data strategy and contributing to state-of-the-art

Qualifications

• 2–5+ years in robotics, computer vision, multimodal learning, embodied AI, or applied ML research.
• Strong understanding of robotics/physical AI and multimodal data.
• Ability to translate research problems into concrete datasets, experiments, and specifications.
• Strong technical communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Degree in Robotics, CS, EE, ML, or related field, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Research the data needs of frontier robotics, world models, and physical AI systems.
• Design new datasets and collection methods across egocentric video, teleop, UMI, robot trajectories, sensors, and simulation.
• Define data schemas, annotations, ground truth, and evaluations for manipulation, navigation, spatial reasoning, and physical understanding.
• Run experiments to understand what data and structure most improve model performance.
• Work with leading AI and robotics labs to turn research needs into scalable data pipelines and products.
• Stay current on frontier research and use it to shape micro1’s robotics data strategy.

Skills

Robotics research

Multimodal data

Experimental design

Technical communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Degree in Robotics, CS, EE, ML, or related field

Job description

micro1 is seeking a Robotics Researcher to advance data-centric robotics research, dataset design, and evaluation methods for embodied AI systems. You will collaborate with leading AI and robotics teams to translate frontier research challenges into scalable data solutions for real-world robotic applications.

You will design datasets, collection methods, and evaluation frameworks across sensors, video, and simulation, shaping micro1’s robotics data strategy and contributing to state-of-the-art