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Our platform is used by frontier labs, Fortune 500 companies, and startups. We’ve raised $16M from top VCs and were YC W25.\nAbout the role\nWe’re looking for a Research Engineer for our Robotics team to develop the datasets and evals that make robotics data useful for training and evaluating embodied AI systems. You’ll translate open-ended research needs into data specifications, build methods to validate data, and run experiments to understand which data and structures improve model performance.\nResponsibilities\nResearch the data needs of robot learning and physical AI systems, and turn them into concrete dataset and evaluation specifications\n\nDefine data schemas, annotations, ground truth, and quality standards across robotics data types\n\nDesign collection and review protocols that external data providers can execute reliably\n\nBuild tools and validation workflows to audit datasets, identify quality issues, and give providers actionable feedback\n\nRun experiments and analyze model behavior to understand how data quality, coverage, and structure affect performance\n\nWork with HUD’s research and engineering teams, and when needed with data vendors and buyers, to improve robotics data offerings\n\nExperience\nYou may be a good fit if you have:\nExperience in robotics, robot learning, embodied AI, or closely related multimodal research\n\nProficiency in Python and experience building data processing, analysis, or evaluation tools\n\nExperience turning research questions into dataset specifications, experiments, and measurable quality criteria\n\nStrong understanding of what makes robotics data useful for training or evaluation-and where it can be misleading\n\nAttention to detail and the ability to spot subtle errors, coverage gaps, and failure modes in complex data\n\nExperience building research tools or pipelines without a fully prescribed roadmap\n\nStrong candidates may also have:\nWorked with robot trajectories, demonstrations, video, sensor data, simulation, or other multimodal robotics datasets\n\nExperience with imitation learning, reinforcement learning, or vision-language-action models\n\nWorked in unstructured problem spaces and take ownership from early research through production deployment\n\nEarly-stage startup experience and strong communication skills for collaboration across teams and time zones\n\nWe prioritize technical aptitude and learning potential over years of experience. Motivated candidates are encouraged to apply even if they don't meet all criteria.\nTeam & company details\nTeam Size: ~25 people currently, mostly full-time in-person, but some remote.\n\nOur team: Our team includes 4 International Olympiad medalists (IOI, ILO, IPhO), serial AI startup founders, and researchers with publications at ICLR, NeurIPS, etc.\n\nCompany stage: We have 8 figures in funding and are scaling profitably and quickly to meet very strong demand.\n\nLogistics\nEmployment: Full-time.\n\nLocation: We have offices in San Francisco or Singapore but are open to remote candidates who can work hours that 70-80% overlap with either San Francisco or Singapore time zones.\n\nVisa Sponsorship: We provide support for relocation and visas for strong full-time candidates to the US or Singapore.\n\nTimeline: Applications are rolling. The process is 2 technical interviews and a 2-3 day work trial.\n\nWhat we offer\nCompetitive compensation\n\n100% covered top-of-the-line medical, dental, and vision from Blue Shield of CA (US employees)\n\nLunch and dinner when you’re in the office (in-office employees)\n\nCompany-wide holiday break (Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day) on top of PTO and paid holidays\n\nOther perks including an Equinox membership, 401k, and commuter benefits (US employees)\n\nUnlimited* access to tokens for ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, etc. *By unlimited, we mean no one on our token usage leaderboard has ever hit a limit. So we have no idea what the limit is.\n\nDue to high volume, we may not actively respond to every application, but feel free to contact us at  or elsewhere if we missed your application!","description_format":"text","description_chars":4232,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["401k plan"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":true,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-29T00:46:35Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":3,"expected_fill_days":35,"reasons":["conf:11","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-02T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/hud-research-engineer-robotics-data","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/hud-research-engineer-robotics-data.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-03T01:05:12Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":918,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4082,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-04T00:00:00Z"}}}