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Instawork

Location:
United States, San Francisco

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

240000.00 - 260000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

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

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 09, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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