Senior ML Systems Engineer - Robot Learning Pipeline

Socket.dev; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Rhoda AI is hiring a Senior/Staff-level Research Engineer to ensure our robot-learning pipeline is reliable from data collection through model training, inference, and real-robot evaluation. You will build validation systems, observability, and robust operating practices to distinguish model limits from data or infrastructure failures.

This core research-systems role requires deep understanding of robot data semantics, working with training and inference code, and cross-team collaboration to

Qualifications

• Strong Python software engineering skills and production-grade debugging practices.
• Experience with PyTorch or similar ML frameworks and model training pipelines.
• Hands-on experience building ML workflows across data processing, training, evaluation, and deployment.

Responsibilities

• Own the robot-learning pipeline end-to-end from data collection to real-robot evaluation.
• Define and maintain a trusted golden path of code, datasets, configurations, and baselines.
• Build automated validation at every interface and develop regression tests for data, training, and inference.

Skills

Python

CI/CD

Testing

PyTorch

Linux

Docker/Kubernetes

System debugging

Education

B.S./M.S. in CS/Robotics/EE

Tools

Slurm

Checkpointing

Job description

Rhoda AI is hiring a Senior/Staff-level Research Engineer to ensure our robot-learning pipeline is reliable from data collection through model training, inference, and real-robot evaluation. You will build validation systems, observability, and robust operating practices to distinguish model limits from data or infrastructure failures.

This core research-systems role requires deep understanding of robot data semantics, working with training and inference code, and cross-team collaboration to