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ML Engineer - Instawork Robotics

Instawork · San Francisco, California, United States · On-site

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About Instawork

Temporary and permanent staffing: hospitality, warehouse, retail, hotel, event, and food service operations. 7M workers across 400+ cities in U.S. and Canada. Backed by Greylock, Y Combinator and GV.

About the role

Instawork is on a mission to create meaningful economic opportunities for skilled hourly professionals in communities around the globe. Our AI-powered labor marketplace helps local businesses scale, and enables global technology companies to push the frontiers of robotics and AI. Backed by world-class investors like Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock, Y Combinator, and others, we’re looking for exceptional talent to reimagine the way the world works.

What they're looking for

  • A mid-career developer, with 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, excluding internships
  • A machine learning engineer with a Master’s or PhD in an AI or ML-related field and 1+ years of professional experience building ML or CV models for robotics or autonomous vehicle applications
  • Experienced with data pipelines, with expertise in distributed systems, cloud computing on AWS infrastructure, and scalable data processing for large-scale datasets
  • An innovator, with a background in identifying and translating techniques from academic research and frontier labs into production systems
  • A problem-solver, who enjoys building new-to-world systems and applying creativity and grit to create value for our robotics partners
More about this role

Instawork is on a mission to create meaningful economic opportunities for skilled hourly professionals in communities around the globe. Our AI-powered labor marketplace helps local businesses scale, and enables global technology companies to push the frontiers of robotics and AI. Backed by world-class investors like Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock, Y Combinator, and others, we’re looking for exceptional talent to reimagine the way the world works.

Instawork’s on-demand labor marketplace is uniquely valuable for robotics and physical AI training. We’re working with leading frontier labs to create the highest-quality, highest-diversity dataset for training robotics foundation models. Instawork Robotics is the human advantage in the robotics revolution.

The Instawork Robotics ML Engineer will help build and scale the technology powering physical AI training data.

  • A mid-career developer, with 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, excluding internships.
  • A machine learning engineer with a Master’s or PhD in an AI or ML-related field and 1+ years of professional experience building ML or CV models for robotics or autonomous vehicle...

Read the full posting on Instawork's site ↗

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