Robotics

Evaluation Engineer

Santa Clara, CAOnsiteFull TimePosted 19 days ago

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Required skills

robot policy performance
evaluation infrastructure
AI team
failure modes
generalization
reliability
data
training
robot learning researchers
simulation

Nice to have

sim-to-real transfer
domain randomization
sensor modeling
system identification
simulation assets
robot models

Role summary

Maven Robotics is seeking a Robotics Evaluation Engineer to build and maintain the core infrastructure for measuring, diagnosing, and improving robot policy performance in both simulation and real-world environments. This role involves defining evaluation metrics, building automated testing systems, developing simulation environments, and creating reproducible real-robot workflows. The engineer will collaborate closely with AI and robotics teams to understand policy successes and failures, working across simulation, perception, controls, and hardware. The ideal candidate has significant experience in robotics evaluation, strong programming skills in Python or C++, and familiarity with robotics simulation platforms.

About Maven

Maven Robotics designs, builds, and deploys intelligent robotics for logistics and manufacturing. Maven is building the first general-purpose robotics system for industrial work. Our mission is to activate autonomous labor at scale and build toward infinitely elastic industrial capacity. We’re a team of engineers, researchers, and operators who have spent our careers working on the hardest problems in AI, robotics, engineering, and autonomous systems. We work at the intersection of advanced research and real-world engineering, turning ideas into prototypes and deployed systems.

At Maven, we build around the realities of industrial work. The robots are designed from first principles for complex physical environments and rigorous commercial standards. They master real tasks that deliver immediate impact, industrial-grade reliability, and intelligence that compounds at scale. We’re growing an ambitious team of people who think in systems, move quickly, and are builders at heart.

About the Role

As a Robotics Evaluation Engineer at Maven Robotics, you will build the systems that measure, diagnose, and improve robot policy performance across simulation and real robots. You will own the core evaluation infrastructure that enables our AI team to rigorously compare models, understand failure modes, measure generalization and reliability, and make better decisions about data, training, and deployment.

You will work closely with robot learning researchers and engineers across simulation, perception, controls, data, and infrastructure to define task success, build reproducible evaluation frameworks, automate testing, and develop the tools needed to understand why robot policies succeed or fail.

What You’ll Do

Own the architecture, implementation, and evolution of Maven’s robot learning evaluation framework across simulation and real robots

Define task specifications, success criteria, failure taxonomies, evaluation metrics, and benchmark protocols for manipulation policies

Build automated systems for comparing models, detecting regressions, running large-scale evaluations, and generating clear performance reports

Develop simulation environments, task scenarios, and procedural variations used for policy evaluation

Build reproducible real-robot evaluation workflows that minimize manual supervision and produce statistically meaningful results

Measure and improve the relationship between simulated and real-world policy performance

Build tools for replaying, visualizing, and diagnosing policy failures across simulation and physical robots

Work closely with robot learning researchers to identify whether failures originate from the model, data, perception, controls, calibration, simulation, hardware, or long-horizon execution

What We’re Looking For

Significant experience building robotics evaluation, simulation, testing, or benchmarking systems.

Strong programming ability in Python, C++, or similar robotics or systems languages

Experience with robotics simulation platforms such as Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Gazebo, or similar systems

Experience evaluating learned robotic policies in simulation and on physical robots

Experience designing reproducible experiments, metrics, benchmarks, and failure-analysis workflows

Ability to build reliable software systems for automated testing, data collection, visualization, and reporting

Strong understanding of robotics systems and the ability to debug issues across software, models, sensors, controls, and hardware

A track record of independently owning complex technical projects from initial design through deployment and ongoing operation

Nice to Have

Familiarity with sim-to-real transfer, domain randomization, sensor modeling, and system identification

Experience importing and configuring simulation assets, including robot models, objects, joints, collisions, inertial properties, materials, and sensors

Experience with hardware-in-the-loop testing, continuous integration for robotics, or automated robot test cells

Familiarity with multimodal robot policies, vision-language-action models, or other learned manipulation architectures

Strong background in statistical analysis, confidence estimation, and experimental design

Equal Opportunity

Maven Robotics is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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