Staff Robotics ML/Data Engineer — Multimodal Pipelines

Persona AI Inc

Houston (TX)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 180,000

Full time

6 days ago
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Medical benefits (99% employer covered
Equity
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Job summary

Persona AI Inc in Houston, TX is seeking a Staff Robotics ML/Data Engineer to architect and scale end-to-end robotics data pipelines. You will turn raw egocentric video and sensor streams into high-fidelity training assets for foundation model training, with hands-on, pipeline-focused work to improve data quality and researcher visibility.

The role emphasizes cross-modal validation, multimodal module orchestration, and scalable data ingestion to enable rapid research iterations across multiple

Qualifications

  • MS or PhD in Computer Science, Data Engineering, ML, Robotics, or related field.
  • Deep expertise in Python and PyTorch with multimodal dataloader experience.
  • Experience processing time-series data from sensors with alignment to video.
  • Strong video processing with OpenCV, FFmpeg, and Decord.
  • Solid knowledge of 3D geometry, transforms, URDF, and kinematics.
  • Experience with data augmentation for CV and time-series data.

Responsibilities

  • Develop cross-modal validation systems across video, proprioception, force/torque sensors, and language annotations.
  • Orchestrate multimodal modules for hand tracking, segmentation, depth estimation, 3D reconstruction, and pose tracking.
  • Implement data augmentation to improve model robustness.
  • Create unified state-action representations across embodiments and coordinate frames.
  • Build dataset tooling and audit workflows with visualization and annotation review UIs.
  • Develop end-to-end ingestion pipelines for raw recordings and produce training-ready datasets.

Skills

Python
PyTorch
OpenCV
FFmpeg
Decord
URDF
Ray
Apache Spark
Open X-Embodiment
DROID
AgiBot World
EgoDex
SAM-family
MANO
SMPL
Omniverse
MuJoCo
VLM

Education

MS or PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Open X-Embodiment
DROID
AgiBot World
EgoDex
SAM-family
MANO
SMPL
Omniverse
MuJoCo

Job description

Persona AI Inc in Houston, TX is seeking a Staff Robotics ML/Data Engineer to architect and scale end-to-end robotics data pipelines. You will turn raw egocentric video and sensor streams into high-fidelity training assets for foundation model training, with hands-on, pipeline-focused work to improve data quality and researcher visibility.

The role emphasizes cross-modal validation, multimodal module orchestration, and scalable data ingestion to enable rapid research iterations across multiple

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