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Research Evaluation Lead

Rhoda · Mountain View · On-site

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About Rhoda

Redefining Robotic Intelligence. Backed by Khosla.

About the role

Translate research intent into clear eval protocols, trial plans, and success criteria. Own execution end-to-end: model handoff → station readiness → pilot execution → QA → results.

What they're looking for

  • Some understanding of robotics / ML experimentation
  • Computer science background or hands-on experience with coding
  • Rigorous, detail-oriented, and able to understand the intent behind an experiment, not just execute instructions
  • Strong hands-on execution and ownership
  • Experience in robotics testing, data collection, lab operations, or QA preferred
More about this role

At Rhoda AI, we’re building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $450M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality.

Own end-to-end robot model evaluation for Research. Turn research questions into consistent, high-quality, repeatable evals that enable fast iteration and trusted results.

Translate research intent into clear eval protocols, trial plans, and success criteria.

Own execution end-to-end: model handoff → station readiness → pilot execution → QA → results.

Train and manage eval pilots; ensure consistency across people, shifts, and stations.

Distinguish model failures from hardware, setup, operator, or data-quality issues.

Maintain eval setups, resets,...

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