ML Engineer - Instawork Robotics

Instawork is on a mission to create meaningful economic opportunities for skilled hourly professionals in communities around the globe. Our AI‑powered labor marketplace helps local businesses scale and enables global technology companies to push the frontiers of robotics and AI.

Instawork’s on‑demand labor marketplace is uniquely valuable for robotics and physical AI training. We’re working with leading frontier labs to create the highest‑quality, highest‑diversity dataset for training robotics foundation models.

The Instawork Robotics ML Engineer will help build and scale the technology powering physical AI training data.

• A mid‑career developer with 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, excluding internships.
• A machine learning engineer with a Master’s or PhD in an AI or ML‑related field and 1+ years of professional experience building ML or CV models for robotics or autonomous vehicle applications.
• Experienced with data pipelines, with expertise in distributed systems, cloud computing on AWS infrastructure, and scalable data processing for large‑scale datasets.
• An innovator with a background in identifying and translating techniques from academic research and frontier labs into production systems.
• A problem‑solver who enjoys building new‑to‑world systems and applying creativity and grit to create value for our robotics partners.

• Experience shipping production code at an early‑stage or mid‑stage startup.
• Experience participating in technical discussions with external partners and customers.

• Model Development – design, build, and maintain the data labeling and enrichment pipeline at the foundation of Instawork Robotics’ data offering.
• Pipeline Optimization – identify and implement continuous improvements to our data pipeline to improve efficiency, scalability, and quality.
• Dataset Quality – develop methodologies and analytics to measure the quality and performance of our dataset and ML models.
• Research Reviews – stay on top of academic research and industry best practices related to robotics learning and training.
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration – work closely with robotics leadership, data ops, QA, and other engineering teams to ensure alignment from concept to deployment.

• Base salary $170,000 – $200,000.
• Equity in the form of stock options.
• Benefits including:
  • Variety of medical, dental, and vision plans with coverage beginning on the date of hire.
  • Flexible paid time off.
  • At least 8 paid company holidays annually.
  • Phone stipend.
  • Commuter stipend.
  • Supplemental pay on qualified leaves.
  • Employee health savings account (HSA) contribution.
  • Flexible spending plans.
  • 401(k) plan.
  • Perkspot – discount program through Lumity.

As set forth in Instawork’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.