Powering generalist robotics and world models with multi-million-hour annotated egocentric data, hand tracking, upper-body/whole-body motion capture, tactile sensing, and simulation for OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta, Figure, 1X, Skild, Genesis AI, and Dyna... Backed by South Park Commons.
About the role
As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE - Robotics Data Direction) at Maxinsights, you will serve as the technical bridge connecting our world-leading robotics foundation model data engine with top-tier Embodied AI and World Model R&D teams globally. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Programming Foundations : Proficient in Python programming with excellent software engineering literacy (proficient in the use of tools like Git, Docker, Shell, etc.)
- Data Engineering Experience : Skilled in using large-scale multimodal data processing tools (e.g., Pandas, NumPy, Arrow, HDF5, and RLDS/TensorFlow Datasets structures)
- Simulation & Graphics: Hands-on project experience using physics simulators like Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, PyBullet, Unity/Unreal Engine, or NeRF/3DGS/generative world models, is highly preferred
- Autonomous Driving/Robotics Background: Understanding autonomous driving perception/planning and control pipelines, or the training and evaluation logic of Embodied AI foundation models (e.g., VLA, RT-2, etc.), is highly preferred
- Cross-Team Coordination & Communication : Possess exceptional technical communication skills, capable of seamlessly aligning complex technical boundaries and delivery Specs with both top AI researchers and non-technical business personnel
- Stress Tolerance & Ownership : Self-driven, able to maintain a results-oriented mindset and proactively drive projects forward amidst the rapid iterations and ambiguous requirement definitions typical of a startup environment
More about this role
As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE - Robotics Data Direction) at Maxinsights, you will serve as the technical bridge connecting our world-leading robotics foundation model data engine with top-tier Embodied AI and World Model R&D teams globally.
While traditional FDE roles typically focus on on-site physical hardware installation and driver debugging, our technology at Maxinsights has achieved a high degree of data streaming and simulation. This role is 100% data- and software-driven, involving absolutely no on-site physical hardware deployment or mechanical debugging.
Your core mission is to deeply understand clients' academic and commercial requirements, acquire and align dataset specifications (Specs), design and produce high-quality multimodal motion and scene simulation data, execute rigorous data governance, and conduct agile, high-frequency iterative validations both within and outside the team. Your work will directly ensure that the delivered data accelerates the generalizability learning of our clients' robots.
Client Requirement Interfacing & Specification Definition
Communicate directly with Embodied AI and World Model researchers to thoroughly analyze their large...
Browse similar: AI jobs · AI startup jobs · Startup jobs