Robotics Solutions Engineer – Robotics Data Collection & Physical AI

Innodata (Nasdaq: INOD) is a global data engineering company. We believe that data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are inextricably linked. Our mission is to enable the responsible advancement of artificial intelligence by providing the data, evaluation frameworks, and human expertise required to build AI systems that can be trusted at scale. We provide a range of transferable solutions, platforms, and services for Generative AI / AI builders and adopters. In every relationship, we honor our 36+ year legacy delivering the highest quality data and outstanding outcomes for our customers.

Scope of the Role: 

Innodata is building a Robotics & Physical AI team focused on systems that perceive, reason, and act in the physical world. Our mission is to design, collect, and evaluate the data that powers frontier robotics and humanoid foundation models. We are looking for a solutions architect who can translate real‑world robotic and embodied‑AI problems into high‑value datasets, data pipelines, and evaluation strategies—while also acting as a trusted technical partner for our customers’ model and product teams.

This roles combines both technical and customer facing. 

What You’ll Own:

• Design Physical AI problem formulations that map real‑world robotic behavior into concrete data and evaluation requirements for training policies, world models, and perception systems.
• Prototype perception, world‑model, and action‑representation pipelines (e.g., VLMs, VLAs, world models) to understand what data is needed, why it matters, and how quality will be measured.
• Use simulation and synthetic environments (digital twins, Isaac/Omniverse‑style tools) to generate, stress‑test, and scale datasets for robotics and humanoid systems, grounded in real sensors, tasks, and constraints.
• Work directly with customers’ robotics and ML teams to define data specifications, collection strategies (egocentric capture, teacher‑follower demonstrations, imitation learning), and evaluation benchmarks that tie to model performance and business outcomes.
• Lead technical discovery and pre‑sales pilots: scope projects, design experiments, and secure the “technical win” by demonstrating uplift from our data, annotations, and pipelines.
• Collaborate with internal data‑collection and platform teams to design robust data pipelines, annotation workflows (including affordances and advanced CV labels), and QA processes that generalize across customers.
• Develop reusable playbooks, reference architectures, and demos for common Physical‑AI use cases (manipulation, mobile navigation, teleoperation, human‑robot interaction) to accelerate future engagements.
• Influence the product and tooling roadmap by bringing structured feedback from frontier robotics customers, and help shape a scalable “Robotics & Physical AI data platform.”
• Represent the company at key industry events and workshops, evangelizing best practices for robotics data, simulation, and evaluation and helping build a broader data and partner ecosystem.

You’ll Thrive in This Role If You Have:

• Strong background in robotics, computer vision, or embodied / Physical AI, with experience building or training real robotic or simulation‑based systems.
• Systems‑level mindset: able to move from physical task → model behavior → data representation → metrics, and explain trade‑offs clearly to both engineers and product leaders.
• Familiarity with world models, imitation‑learning or teleoperation pipelines, simulation‑based workflows, or synthetic data generation for robotics.
• 3+ years of hands‑on development in Python and at least one of C++/Java or similar languages used in robotics or ML engineering.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous, early‑stage problem spaces; you can rapidly scope MVP solutions and iterate with customers.
• Clear technical communication and a customer‑facing solution‑architect mindset—able to run whiteboard sessions, lead workshops, and collaborate directly with foundation‑model builders and robotics teams on data and technical requirements.
• Strong project‑management and ownership skills: you can drive pilots from idea to delivery, coordinate across internal teams, and keep technical and commercial goals aligned.
• Experience with real robotic platforms (humanoids, manipulators, mobile robots) or advanced simulators and digital‑twin platforms.
• Experience designing large‑scale datasets, annotation schemes (e.g., affordances, action labels, dense CV annotations), or evaluation pipelines for robotics/Physical‑AI models.
• Prior solutions‑engineering, pre‑sales, or consulting experience with technical customers, especially in frontier robotics or autonomous systems.
• Contributions to open‑source robotics/ML projects, technical blogs, or publications that demonstrate hands‑on prototyping, dataset design, or applied research.

The expected salary range for this position is $175,000 – $225,000 USD per year, based on experience, skills, and qualifications.

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