Senior Robotics Data-Collection Engineer

GRAM; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Benefits

Equity

Job summary

GRAM is seeking a senior engineer to own the systems and methods that generate high-quality robot data from physical work. You will oversee campaigns from demonstration through autonomous operation, defining capture contracts and validation criteria to ensure data meaningfully informs model or system improvements.

You will design operator interfaces, instrument tools and environments, and diagnose failures across sensors, networking, and robot execution to produce reproducible datasets and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, robotics, or related field.
• Strong C++ or Python programming in Linux with robot middleware, sensor streams, and hardware debugging.
• Direct experience building and operating a teleoperation, shared-control, portable demonstration, instrumented task-tool, or robot-data collection system for physical work.
• Demonstrated ability to characterize end-to-end latency, timing, calibration, command safety, and data quality using instrumented tests.
• Experience converting a learning/test/capability objective into a physical collection protocol whose data changed model or system performance.

Responsibilities

• Build field-capable demonstration interfaces and robust systems for teleoperation, autonomous rollout, and recovery-data collection in realistic physical work.
• Translate model failures into controlled scenarios, collection protocols, sampling priorities, and measurable acceptance criteria.
• Design operator interfaces with clear authority, latency budgets, feedback, safe handoff, and emergency behavior.
• Instrument demonstration tools, robots, operators, and environments so perception, action, timing, and data quality remain valid at capture.
• Commission collection stations and diagnose failures across sensors, controls, networking, operator input, robot execution, and data recording.
• Define operator procedures, calibration checks, training, and escalation paths for consistent evidence across people/sessions.
• Measure whether collected data changes model or system performance and refine the next campaign.
• Demonstrate end-to-end experience with the systems and methods that generate high-quality robot data.

Skills

C++

Python

Linux

Robot middleware

Hardware debugging

Teleoperation

Data collection

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/ME/Robotics

Tools

ROS

Sensor streams

Job description

GRAM is seeking a senior engineer to own the systems and methods that generate high-quality robot data from physical work. You will oversee campaigns from demonstration through autonomous operation, defining capture contracts and validation criteria to ensure data meaningfully informs model or system improvements.

You will design operator interfaces, instrument tools and environments, and diagnose failures across sensors, networking, and robot execution to produce reproducible datasets and