Robotics Evaluation Engineer - Simulation & Real-World Policies

Maven Robotics, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Maven Robotics, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Robotics Evaluation Engineer to build systems that measure, diagnose, and improve robot policy performance across simulation and real robots.

You will own the core evaluation infrastructure that enables our AI team to rigorously compare models, understand failure modes, measure generalization and reliability, and make better decisions about data, training, and deployment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience building robotics evaluation, simulation, testing, or benchmarking systems.
• Strong programming ability in Python, C++, or similar robotics or systems languages.
• Experience with robotics simulation platforms such as Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Gazebo, or similar systems.
• Experience evaluating learned robotic policies in simulation and on physical robots.
• Experience designing reproducible experiments, metrics, benchmarks, and failure analysis workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture, implementation, and evolution of Maven’s robot learning evaluation framework across simulation and real robots.
• Define task specifications, success criteria, failure taxonomies, evaluation metrics, and benchmark protocols for manipulation policies.
• Build automated systems for comparing models, detecting regressions, running large-scale evaluations, and generating clear performance reports.
• Develop simulation environments, task scenarios, and procedural variations used for policy evaluation.
• Build reproducible real-robot evaluation workflows that minimize manual supervision and produce statistically meaningful results.
• Measure and improve the relationship between simulated and real-world policy performance.
• Build tools for replaying, visualizing, and diagnosing policy failures across simulation and physical robots.

Skills

Robotics evaluation

Python/C++

Simulation frameworks

Benchmarks

Data analysis

Tools

Isaac Sim

MuJoCo

Gazebo

Job description

Maven Robotics, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Robotics Evaluation Engineer to build systems that measure, diagnose, and improve robot policy performance across simulation and real robots.

You will own the core evaluation infrastructure that enables our AI team to rigorously compare models, understand failure modes, measure generalization and reliability, and make better decisions about data, training, and deployment.