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Build and optimize low-latency on-device and distributed GPU inference pipelines. Implement and tune low-level CUDA/Triton kernels, optimize for throughput and latency, and develop monitoring/debugging tools to ensure reliable, deterministic inference in robotics and cluster environments.

Own customer-facing go-to-market for robotics: identify design partners, run pilots to production, close technical commercial deals, and feed customer insights into product and engineering. Lead deployments, build playbooks, define pricing, and align partnerships to scale early-adopter engagements.

Hands-on field engineer who keeps robot data collection running: stand up and maintain stations, triage and resolve hardware/software/data issues on customer and partner sites, bring up new tasks and sites, and feed operational insights back to model, platform, and hardware teams.

Lead development of a high-performance robotics simulation platform and its compiler stack. Design compute infrastructure and data flow for physics simulation and model training, optimize GPU codegen and JIT compilation, improve differentiable programming support, and contribute to open-source ML compiler projects while collaborating with simulation and robotics engineers.

Own and scale end-to-end physical-data collection operations: scheduling, operator utilization, station uptime, throughput and quality. Recruit and develop operators and shift leads, standardize playbooks and SOPs across sites, partner with Quality and Annotation teams, stand up partner-site deployments, and build reporting that tracks collected hours, quality, and cost.

Design, build, and optimize distributed PyTorch training systems for multi-node GPU clusters. Profile and eliminate performance bottlenecks across data pipelines to GPU kernels, implement low-level CUDA/cuDNN/Triton kernels, tune CPU/GPU/memory/network utilization, and develop monitoring and debugging tools for large-scale training runs.

Design and maintain foundational platform frameworks and internal tooling to accelerate AI research. Collaborate with cross-functional engineering and research teams to build modular, reusable systems, improve workflows, ensure high code quality, and implement organization-wide, low-disruption changes.

Build and maintain scalable simulation infrastructure and environment frameworks for robotics model development, evaluation, and iteration. Create sim-ready digital twins, tune physics/rendering to reduce sim-to-real gap, and develop tooling for reliable, observable simulation workflows. Collaborate with simulation engine, rendering, asset, AI, and robotics teams.

Design, prototype, and build robotic hardware systems; develop scalable data-collection platforms; improve simulation fidelity via system identification; maintain in-house hardware infrastructure; collaborate with engineering and simulation teams to deliver robust, scalable physical AI systems.

Build and run a combined sourcing and vendor-management function for data and compute. Source datasets and partners, negotiate contracts (MSAs/SOWs), forecast and secure compute capacity, run pilots and quality benchmarks, own data rights and compliance with Legal, and create scorecards, tooling, and metrics to manage spend, utilization, and supplier performance.