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Staff, Robotics ML/Data Engineer

Persona AI Inc Houston, TX

Houston, TX

1mo ago Closed

Full time Python Analytics Artificial Intelligence

This position is no longer accepting applications (closed Oct 17, 2026).

Job Description

Persona AI Inc is hiring a Staff, Robotics ML/Data Engineer to architect and scale multimodal robotics data pipelines for foundation model training.

Responsibilities

Design cross-modal validation systems that check agreement across video, proprioception, force or haptic signals, and language annotations.
Run validation approaches such as reprojecting robot state into the image plane to verify video-state consistency.
Use VLM-assisted checks to confirm instructions align with observed behavior.
Orchestrate multimodal modules including hand-tracking, segmentation, depth estimation, 3D reconstruction, and pose-tracking.
Retarget human demonstrations into robot trajectories.
Apply simulation-in-the-loop validation to ensure physical grounding, including kinematic feasibility, physics replay, and motion-consistency filtering.
Implement robust data augmentation for expert trajectories using spatial transformations, temporal scaling, synthetic viewpoints, and sensor noise injection.
Unify state-action representations across embodiments, coordinate frames, rotation conventions, gripper or hand parameterizations, and sampling rates.
Add per-dimension validity masking and per-source normalization so onboarding a new robot or sensor is configuration-driven rather than a rewrite.
Build dataset tooling for researchers to query, visualize, and audit data, including clip browsers, trajectory viewers, and annotation review UIs.
Translate model failure analyses into new curation rules and targeted re-collection requests.
Architect end-to-end ingestion pipelines from raw recordings such as egocentric video, teleoperation sessions, and third-party open datasets.
Produce indexed, queryable, training-ready datasets including temporal segmentation into action clips.
Extract metadata and scene-graph information, support embedding-based retrieval, and implement language annotation workflows.

Requirements

M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field.
Deep expertise in Python and extensive experience with PyTorch, including custom dataloaders for multimodal datasets.
Experience processing complex time-series data from force-torque (F/T) sensors, load cells, or tactile arrays with precise alignment to visual frames.
Strong video processing pipeline experience and familiarity with libraries including OpenCV, FFmpeg, and Decord, including managing I/O bottlenecks for terabyte-scale video datasets.
Working knowledge of 3D geometry and robotics data: coordinate frames and transforms, rotation representations, camera intrinsics and extrinsics, forward and inverse kinematics, and URDF.
Ability to implement programmatic and generative data augmentation techniques for computer vision and time-series data.

Technologies

Python, PyTorch, OpenCV, FFmpeg, Decord
URDF
Ray, Apache Spark
Open X-Embodiment, DROID, AgiBot World, EgoDex
SAM-family, MANO, SMPL
Omniverse, MuJoCo
NVIDIA robotic software stack, NVIDIA's robotic software stack
VLM

Bonus Skills

Experience with NVIDIA’s robotic software stack, including Open X-Embodiment, DROID, AgiBot World, EgoDex, or similar.
Familiarity with modern perception toolbox workflows as a user: segmentation (SAM-family), monocular depth, hand or body pose estimation (MANO/SMPL), 6-DoF object pose tracking, and point tracking.
Comfort composing and evaluating these components in a data pipeline without needing to train the models.
Familiarity with distributed data processing for cluster computing (Ray, Apache Spark).
Background generating or utilizing synthetic robotic data via simulation (Omniverse, MuJoCo).
Experience integrating spatial awareness or tactile data representations (for example, Fourier encoding) into visual pipelines.

Benefits

Competitive compensation
Performance-based bonus
99% employer covered medical benefits
Early-stage equity
Competitive PTO
Company-wide paid winter break between December 24th and January 2nd
Full access to advanced tools

Job Details

Job Title: Staff, Robotics ML/Data Engineer
Department: Software
Reports To: Teleoperations Lead
Employment Type: Full-Time
Location: Houston, TX (onsite); Houston, TX or Pensacola FL

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