Founding Machine Learning Lead - Instawork Robotics
Instawork - San Francisco, California, United States
Posted Nov 24, 2025
Benefits
- Parental leave
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- Non-birth-parent leave
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- Family-building benefits
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- Fertility benefits: Not verified
- Adoption assistance: Not verified
- Surrogacy assistance: Not verified
- Mental health support
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- Relocation assistance
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- Childcare support
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- Learning budget
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- Salary
- $240K-$260K From the posting source
- 401(k) match
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Market context
- U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)
- $111,944 U.S. median for this role
- Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)
- +13.7% - Much faster than average
123% above the BLS role benchmark for data and ml aggregate.
Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Data and ML aggregate by role bucket.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.
Schedule
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- Weekend work
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Company
- Equity
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Application
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- Deadline
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About this role
Founding Machine Learning Lead - Instawork Robotics San Francisco, California, United States Instawork is on a mission to create meaningful economic opportunities for skilled hourly professionals in communities around the globe. Our AI-powered labor marketplace helps local businesses scale, and enables global technology companies to push the frontiers of robotics and AI. Backed by world-class investors like Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock, Y Combinator, and others, we're looking for exceptional talent to reimagine the way the world works. 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. Who You Are: - An mid-career developer, with at least 8 years of programming and/or engineering leadership experience, excluding internships. - A 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. - An innovator, with a background in identifying and translating techniques from academic research and frontier labs into production systems. - A problem-solver, who enjoys building new-to-world systems, sharing your technical expertise with other builders, and applying creativity and
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