Robotics ML Research Resident: Experimental Design

Generalist; Somerville (NJ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Generalist in the United States is seeking a Research Resident to help design, run, and analyze experiments at the intersection of machine learning and robotics. This entry-level role (less than 3 years of ML research experience) offers a potential path toward a Research Scientist position.

You'll work with ML researchers and robotics engineers to run robot experiments, design evaluation tasks, collect data, interpret results, and document repeatable workflows, with emphasis on trustworthy

Qualifications

• Experience running structured experiments or lab studies.
• Ability to design evaluation tasks with controls and repeatability.
• Strong attention to data quality and measurement.

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 workflows

Statistical rigor

Laboratory/workspace setup

Robotics hardware familiarity

Programming

Tools

Python

ROS

Job description

Generalist in the United States is seeking a Research Resident to help design, run, and analyze experiments at the intersection of machine learning and robotics. This entry-level role (less than 3 years of ML research experience) offers a potential path toward a Research Scientist position.

You'll work with ML researchers and robotics engineers to run robot experiments, design evaluation tasks, collect data, interpret results, and document repeatable workflows, with emphasis on trustworthy