# Staff, Robotics ML/Data Engineer at Persona AI

- Company: Persona AI
- What the company does: Backed by 500 Global.
- Company website: https://personastudios.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Pensacola, FL or Houston, TX
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-31
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/persona.ai/b14bf3e2-83a6-4be2-b55e-23627379f493
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/persona-ai-staff-robotics-ml-data-engineer/

## About the role

At Persona we require an unprecedented volume of high-quality, multimodal data. We are moving beyond basic teleoperation to leverage massive datasets of in-the-wild egocentric video combined with dense sensor streams (IMU, haptics, kinematics, and high-fidelity force profiles). We are seeking a highly skilled AI Engineer to architect the systems that turn this raw, unstructured multimodal data into high-fidelity training assets for our robots.

## What they're looking for

- Education: M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field
- Programming & ML Frameworks: Deep expertise in Python and extensive experience with PyTorch, specifically in handling custom dataloaders for multimodal datasets
- Force & Time-Series Data Processing: Experience analyzing and processing complex time-series data from force-torque (F/T) sensors, load cells, or tactile arrays, ensuring pristine alignment with visual frames
- Video Processing Expertise: Mastery of video processing pipelines and libraries (OpenCV, FFmpeg, Decord) and managing the I/O bottlenecks of terabyte-scale video datasets
- Solid working knowledge of 3D geometry and robotics data: coordinate frames and transforms, rotation representations, camera intrinsics/extrinsics, forward/inverse kinematics, URDF
- Data Augmentation: Proven ability to implement programmatic and generative data augmentation techniques for computer vision and time-series data

Tags: Persona AI