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Machine Learning Lead

United States, San Francisco 240000.00 - 260000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted December 09, 2025
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Instawork is on a mission to create meaningful economic opportunities for skilled hourly professionals. 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. Instawork Robotics is the human advantage in the robotics revolution. The Instawork Robotics ML Lead will own the technology strategy for physical AI training data.

Job Responsibility

  • Model Development - plan, architect, and build 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
  • Mentorship & Influence - Guide mid and senior-level engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and architectural discussions, raising the technical bar across the organization

Requirements

  • Mid-career developer with at least 8 years of programming and/or engineering leadership experience, excluding internships
  • Machine learning expert with a Master’s or PhD in an AI or ML-related field and at least 2 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
  • Innovator with a background in identifying and translating techniques from academic research and frontier labs into production systems
  • Problem-solver who enjoys building new-to-world systems, sharing technical expertise, and applying creativity and grit

Nice to have

  • 5+ years experience designing or architecting production distributed systems
  • Experience as an engineering team leader or software development manager
  • Experience shipping production code at an early-stage or mid-stage startup
  • Comfort and presence leading technical discussions with external partners and customers

What we offer

  • Equity in the form of stock options
  • 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
  • Home office stipend
  • 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
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