Progress in physical AI is gated as much by data design as by model architecture. The best manipulation and locomotion policies, vision-language-action models, and world models are only as good as the trajectories, demonstrations, and environments they learn from — so the highest-leverage decisions are made long before a model trains: what to capture, what to synthesize, how to represent an action, and how to know whether any of it will transfer to a real robot.
Innodata is building the data and evaluation practice behind the next generation of robotics foundation models, in direct partnership with the customers and frontier labs defining that frontier. We are hiring a Research Scientist to own the science of that data.
You will partner directly with the customers and frontier labs building robot foundation models, as interested in the data those models learn from as in the models themselves. Your leverage is scientific judgment about data: deciding what is worth capturing in the real world versus generating in simulation, how to weight a training mix across embodiments and sensors, and how to measure whether a policy will hold up outside the lab. Your conclusions will shape what our partners collect next.