Member of Technical Staff, Robotics Research — Enterprise AI Solutions & Strategy

ZR Talent Group is recruiting a qualified Member of Technical Staff, Robotics Research — Enterprise AI Solutions & Strategy for a 100% remote contract opportunity ($500,000 - $1,500,000/year) open to candidates across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and South Africa. In this specialist engagement, you will collaborate with advanced AI research teams to design domain-specific evaluation scenarios, audit complex model reasoning, and establish gold-standard reference solutions in Robotics Data, Robot Perception, Schema Design, Robotics R&D.

Prior experience building machine learning systems is not required—our research partners value authentic practitioner judgment, domain rigor, and clear analytical writing.

Key Responsibilities & Deliverables

• Research the data needs of frontier robotics, world models, and physical AI systems.
• Design new datasets and collection methods across egocentric video, teleop, UMI, robot trajectories, sensors, and simulation.
• Define data schemas, annotations, ground truth, and evaluations for areas like manipulation, navigation, spatial reasoning, and physical understanding.
• Run experiments to understand what data and structure most improve model performance.
• Work with leading AI and robotics labs to turn research needs into scalable data pipelines and products.
• Stay current on frontier research and use it to shape ZR Talent Group’s robotics data strategy.
• What You Bring
• 2–5+ years in robotics, computer vision, multimodal learning, embodied AI, or applied ML research.
• Strong understanding of robotics/physical AI and multimodal data.
• Ability to translate research problems into concrete datasets, experiments, and specifications.
• Strong technical communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Degree in Robotics, CS, EE, ML, or related field, or equivalent experience.

Required Qualifications & Technical Criteria

• Demonstrated professional or advanced academic background in Robotics Data, Robot Perception, Schema Design, Robotics R&D.
• Strong analytical writing and critical evaluation skills in English.
• Self-directed work ethic suited for an asynchronous, 100% remote research environment.

Preferred Experience & Bonus Attributes

• Experience working at a leading robotics, AI, or autonomous systems company or research lab.
• Hands-on experience with embodied AI datasets, imitation learning, teleoperation, or robot learning pipelines.
• Experience designing or working with multimodal robotics datasets, including video, sensor, trajectory, or simulation data.
• Hands-on experience with robotics hardware, sensor integration, or rapid prototyping.
• Working knowledge of data collection and evaluation for manipulation, navigation, spatial reasoning, or world models.
• Compensation & Benefits Notice
• The national pay range for this full-time position is base salary of $200,000 –$320,000 USD. All employees are eligible for equity compensation, and employees may also receive performance-based bonuses, dependent on role and subject to company policies. ZR Talent Group provides a comprehensive benefits package, including up to 100% reimbursement for health-insurance premiums, paid time off, a 401(K) plan with a company match, and additional benefits designed to support a high-performing, remote-first workforce.

Compensation, Remote Eligibility & Schedule

• Compensation Band: $500,000 - $1,500,000/year
• Work Model: 100% Remote / Work From Home with flexible asynchronous scheduling
• Eligible Remote Locations: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and South Africa
• Current Openings: 1 active specialist position
• Hiring Organization: ZR Talent Group
• Core Skills & Technologies: Robotics Data, Robot Perception, Schema Design, Robotics R&D