# ML Engineer - Instawork Robotics at Instawork

- Company: Instawork
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://www.instawork.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $170K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-12
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/instawork/jobs/4686498006
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/instawork-ml-engineer-instawork-robotics/

## 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

Tags: Robotics