XDOF, San Mateo Hybrid
Level: Mid Level to Senior Research Scientist (L4–L5 equivalent) Location: San Mateo
Note: Junior candidates will still be considered
If you’re excited to help build the infrastructure powering tomorrow’s intelligent machines, we’d love to hear from you!
Frontier labs are racing to build general-purpose robots, and the bottleneck isn't compute. It's data. At XDOF, we're building the foundation behind the foundation models: the data collection systems, annotation pipelines, exabyte-scale data infrastructure, and software toolchain that enable our partners to push the field forward.
We're hiring a Research Engineer / Scientist to help lead technical efforts at the intersection of vision-language models and robot learning. You will build systems that turn raw egocentric and teleoperation video into high-signal training data for VLA models, and increasingly, contribute to the models themselves.
Beyond pipelines, you will drive research into what makes robot data useful: discovering new metadata (contact events, affordance labels, implicit reward signals, dynamics priors from video) that unlock capabilities current approaches miss. You'll explore how structured annotations can improve cross-embodiment transfer, automatic curriculum generation, and world models that predict what actually matters for manipulation. The data layer isn't downstream of the research. It is the research.
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