Position Summary:You will build the tooling that lets the autonomy team measure whether our robot policies are actually getting better-in simulation and on real hardware. This is a high-leverage engineering role at the center of the research loop, close to real robot behavior, with strong mentorship and room to grow quickly alongside senior engineers.
Core Responsibilities:- Policy Evaluation: Build and maintain the pipelines that evaluate robot policies-in sim and on hardware-and the experiment-tracking tooling the team uses daily.
- Metrics for Robot Behavior: Implement task-success metrics, dashboards, and automated checks that turn messy robot rollouts into trustworthy, comparable signal.
- Iteration Speed: Improve the speed and reliability of the experiment loop so researchers can evaluate policies faster.
- Debugging: Track down issues across the evaluation stack and in policy rollouts-from flaky jobs to misleading metrics to surprising robot behavior.
- Growth: Learn the autonomy stack alongside senior engineers and take on growing ownership.
Required Qualifications:- Software Fundamentals: Solid engineering fundamentals and a bias toward building reliable, well-tested tooling.
- Robot Policies: Hands-on experience working with robot policies or robotic systems-running, evaluating, or debugging them (research, projects, or industry).
- ML Systems Interest: Genuine interest in ML systems and evaluation, and enthusiasm for working where research meets real robots.
- Delivery: The ability to take a well-scoped problem and deliver it end to end.
- Curiosity & Drive: Eagerness to learn quickly from feedback and code review.
Preferred Qualifications:- Experience evaluating or benchmarking robot policies in simulation or on hardware.
- Exposure to ML experimentation, evaluation, or data pipelines.
- Familiarity with Python and with cloud or compute infrastructure.
Walden Robotics offers a competitive total compensation program, including salary, annual cash bonus, company equity, company-subsidized insurance programs, 401(k) with company match, flexible PTO, daily lunch, and other benefits. The pay ranges noted on our posts is for salary only.
The pay range for this role is:
152,250 - 202,750 USD per year (BOS)
152,250 - 202,750 USD per year (SF)
