ML Engineer

📋 Job Overview

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. Backed by world-class investors like Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock, Y Combinator, and others, we’re looking for exceptional talent to reimagine the way the world works.

🏢 About Instawork

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. Instawork Robotics is the human advantage in the robotics revolution. 

🎯 The Role

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

✅ Key Responsibilities

• 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.

📌 Required Qualifications

• A mid-career developer, with 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, excluding internships.
• 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.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• 3+ years experience designing or architecting production distributed systems
• Experience shipping production code at an early-stage or mid-stage startup
• Experience participating in technical discussions with external partners and customers

🎁 Benefits

This position is eligible for equity in the form of stock options

This position is eligible for Instawork 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 accounts (HSA) contribution
• Flexible spending plans
• 401K plan
• Perkspot - discount program through Lumity

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed above.