Robotics ML Research Assistant

Generalist AI; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Generalist AI in Boston is seeking a Research Assistant to design, run, and analyze experiments at the intersection of machine learning and robotics. This entry-level role is for individuals with less than 3 years of ML research experience and aims to evolve toward a Research Scientist path.

You will work closely with ML researchers and robotics engineers to run robot experiments, collect data, evaluate results, and document repeatable workflows while upholding rigorous experimental design and

Qualifications

• Experience running experiments, lab studies, field studies, data collection workflows, or structured evaluations.
• Ability to think about experimental design, confounding factors, controls, variance, and what conclusions the data can actually support.
• Detail-oriented, especially when tasks are repetitive but subtle differences matter.
• Hands-on work with physical systems, equipment, materials, or instruments.
• Able to follow protocols while also noticing when something is wrong or could be improved.
• Coordinate many moving parts: robots, materials, tasks, data, model versions, metrics, and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Running structured experiments on robot platforms
• Setting up physical tasks, materials, fixtures, and benchmarks for robot evaluations
• Collecting high-quality robot data and tracking experimental conditions
• Measuring real-world success rates across tasks, robots, and model variants
• Designing evaluations with attention to controls, repeatability, statistical rigor, and sources of bias
• Analyzing results to help distinguish real model improvements from noise
• Synthesizing findings and communicating them clearly to ML researchers and engineers
• Preparing robots, sensors, workspaces, and materials for rollouts and evaluations
• Helping kick off training jobs, run evaluations, and organize results
• Beta testing internal and third-party tools for teaching robots new skills
• Troubleshooting physical setups, hardware issues, and procedural bottlenecks
• Writing clear documentation and playbooks so others can reproduce workflows
• Improving experimental reliability, data quality, and operational throughput over time

Skills

Experiment design

Data collection

Statistical analysis

Programming basics

Robotics familiarity

Documentation

Tools

Python

ROS

Job description

Generalist AI in Boston is seeking a Research Assistant to design, run, and analyze experiments at the intersection of machine learning and robotics. This entry-level role is for individuals with less than 3 years of ML research experience and aims to evolve toward a Research Scientist path.

You will work closely with ML researchers and robotics engineers to run robot experiments, collect data, evaluate results, and document repeatable workflows while upholding rigorous experimental design and