Robotics Research & Data Engine Lead (Remote)

micro1; United States; Remote; USD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Bonus eligibility

Health insurance reimbursement

401(k) with company match

Remote-first culture

Paid time off

Job summary

micro1 is seeking a VP of Robotics Research to lead the Robotics Research team in creating data foundations for robot learning. You will define data collection, representation, evaluation, and scaling to build a Robotics Data Engine powering increasingly capable robotic systems.

Collaborating with AI researchers and engineers, you will drive research at the intersection of robotics, perception, learning, and data.

Qualifications

• Significant robotics or AI research leadership experience.
• Experience leading or mentoring technical or research teams.
• Deep understanding of robotics data pipelines and datasets.
• Expertise in robot perception, manipulation, or learning methods.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the research strategy for robotics data, embodied AI, and robot learning.
• Lead initiatives on robotics datasets, multimodal representations, perception, manipulation, and data-centric learning.
• Build, mentor, and grow a team of Robotics Researchers with a culture of rigor and experimentation.
• Develop data collection methods via teleoperation, demonstrations, simulation, autonomous exploration, and real-world deployments.
• Design scalable robotics data pipelines with collection workflows, annotation schemas, and evaluation methodologies.
• Translate research objectives into scalable pipeline specifications including data requirements and success metrics.
• Partner with research, engineering, product, and operations to deliver production-ready data solutions.
• Establish benchmarks and evaluation frameworks to measure robot learning performance.
• Stay current with literature and techniques from leading labs and industry.
• Drive technical excellence through documentation and cross-functional communication.

Skills

Robotics research

Embodied AI

Robot learning

Team leadership

Data pipelines

Perception

Manipulation

Imitation learning

Reinforcement learning

Foundation models

Education

Master's or PhD in Robotics, CS, AI, EE, or related

Tools

ROS/ROS2

Isaac Lab/Isaac Sim

MuJoCo

Habitat

ManiSkill

Job description

micro1 is seeking a VP of Robotics Research to lead the Robotics Research team in creating data foundations for robot learning. You will define data collection, representation, evaluation, and scaling to build a Robotics Data Engine powering increasingly capable robotic systems.

Collaborating with AI researchers and engineers, you will drive research at the intersection of robotics, perception, learning, and data.