Robotics Evaluation Scientist

Fauna Robotics; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Fauna Robotics is seeking a Research Scientist to define how robot capabilities are measured, stress-tested, and improved. The role focuses on evaluation frameworks, data collection protocols, task structures, and human-in-the-loop systems.

It connects teleoperation, operator interfaces, robot learning, and policy validation through research machinery that determines readiness of robot behavior. The candidate will work on designing evaluation frameworks, data collection protocols, and scalable

Qualifications

• Experience in robotics, ML, experimental systems, or related fields.
• Ability to analyze experimental and observational data sets.
• Comfort applying scientific methods to product and business problems.
• Systems thinking across software, data, operators and robot behavior.

Responsibilities

• Design evaluation frameworks for real-world robot tasks and behaviors.
• Define data collection protocols that improve policy learning and validation.
• Connect teleoperation workflows with scalable robot evaluation systems.
• Build methods for measuring capability, generalization, and failure modes.

Skills

Research experience

Data analysis

Scientific method

Systems thinking

Job description

Fauna Robotics is seeking a Research Scientist to define how robot capabilities are measured, stress-tested, and improved. The role focuses on evaluation frameworks, data collection protocols, task structures, and human-in-the-loop systems.

It connects teleoperation, operator interfaces, robot learning, and policy validation through research machinery that determines readiness of robot behavior. The candidate will work on designing evaluation frameworks, data collection protocols, and scalable