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Site Performance & Failure Triage\nOwn day-to-day triage of issues across deployed sites and identify the highest-impact failure modes.\n\nAnalyze robot behavior, logs, telemetry, and model outputs to diagnose issues across perception, prediction, and planning.\n\nTrack failure modes and drive issues through resolution, with a focus on consistently improving site performance.\n\n2. ML Flywheel & Continuous Improvement\nWork with data/labeling, modeling, and deployment teams to turn field failures into actionable data and model improvements.\n\nBuild and maintain datasets and evaluation sets for new failure modes and site-specific use cases.\n\nMeasure improvements in production and ensure fixes are validated and generalized across sites.\n\n3. 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