Duration - 3 months to 6 months

Stipend - 35,000 in hand

Working Days - 6 days

About IRL

Researchers at UC Berkeley have identified a “100,000-year data gap” - the gulf between what trained AI language models and what physical robots actually have to learn from. Closing that gap is the defining infrastructure challenge of the physical AI era. IRL is Instawork’s answer to it. We deploy skilled workers into real commercial and residential environments - kitchens, warehouses, hotel floors, homes - to capture the high-fidelity task data that the world’s leading Robotics labs use to train their foundation models. Read more here.

Role Overview

We are looking for an analytically-minded Operations Management Intern with an engineering background to join our team. This role is ideal for Engineering Graduates who enjoy solving structural problems and want to apply their technical discipline to business operations. You will be responsible for managing high-volume data and coordinating complex logistics to ensure our operational engine runs at peak efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Operational Analytics: Use your engineering mindset to break down operational workflows and identify areas for automation or optimization.
• Advanced Data Tracking: Manage and audit large-scale datasets using Excel, ensuring 100% accuracy in reporting and forecasting.
• Project Coordination: Oversee the lifecycle of specific operational tasks, ensuring technical requirements and timelines are met.
• Stakeholder Liaison: Act as a bridge between technical teams and field operations to ensure seamless communication.
• Problem Solving: Rapidly troubleshoot real-time operational issues using a logical, first-principles approach.

Mandatory Qualifications

• Education: B.E. / B.Tech Graduate (All streams welcome; Batch of 2025 or 2026).
• Event Leadership: Proven experience in a core leadership or operations role for a College Fest. We are looking for candidates who have managed budgets, logistics, or large teams in a high-pressure environment.
• Technical Tools: Expert-level proficiency in Microsoft Excel (formulas, data modeling, and pivot tables).
• Systems Thinking: Ability to understand how different parts of a process impact the whole.

Instawork

Instawork is one of the largest flexible labor marketplaces in the US - connecting over 10 million blue-collar workers with businesses across warehouses, kitchens, stadiums, etc. Built over a decade into the infrastructure that powers America's hourly economy, Instawork has raised $160M from TCV, Benchmark, and Greylock. We operate at a massive scale, move with urgency, and are now making one of the most ambitious bets in AI.

About IRL (Instawork Robotics Labs)

Researchers at UC Berkeley have identified a “100,000-year data gap” - the gulf between what trained AI language models and what physical robots actually have to learn from. Closing that gap is the defining infrastructure challenge of the physical AI era. IRL is Instawork’s answer to it. We deploy skilled workers into real commercial and residential environments - kitchens, warehouses, hotel floors, homes - to capture the high-fidelity task data that the world’s leading Robotics labs use to train their foundation models. Read more here.

What will you do?

We're hiring an Operations Manager to run and scale our robotics data operations across APAC, starting from Bengaluru. You will own the operational backbone of a large-scale video data collection programme spanning multiple cities, thousands of field workers, and the most demanding quality bars in the industry. You'll work directly with senior leadership and carry real ownership from week one.

• Build the operations from the ground up - workflows, QA pipelines, and performance systems that scale across India and APAC without breaking
• Hire, mentor, and lead a lean team. Make them punch way above their weight
• Automate everything you possibly can. If AI can do it, it should not be on your plate
• Get on planes. Stand up new markets. Make them work
• Own every vendor relationship, every field coordinator, every delivery. 

Who are you?
If you've been itching to do the most important work of your career, and are ready to pour everything into it, this is your moment.

• 5+ years in operations, with experience building and leading teams inside startups.
• Strong with operational metrics, data reporting, and Google Sheets
• Hands-on with AI tools and automation platforms - you have actively used them to eliminate manual work.

Why Join Us

• Robotics data is a once-in-a-decade infrastructure bet. Get in before it goes mainstream and build your career at the center of it
• You will have full ownership of a greenfield operation - the kind of scope most people don't get until much later in their careers
• Work with world-class robotics, ops, and product talent

To Apply

If this role is speaking to you, don't just send a resume. Tell us about the hardest operational problem you have ever solved. We will take it from there. 

About IRL

Researchers at UC Berkeley have identified a “100,000-year data gap” - the gulf between what trained AI language models and what physical robots actually have to learn from. Closing that gap is the defining infrastructure challenge of the physical AI era. IRL is Instawork’s answer to it. We deploy skilled workers into real commercial and residential environments - kitchens, warehouses, hotel floors, homes - to capture the high-fidelity task data that the world’s leading Robotics labs use to train their foundation models. Read more here.

Location: Bengaluru, India 

The Mission

Instawork is building the data engine for the future of physical AI. We are looking for a Global Robotics Partnership Associate to bridge the gap between world-class robotics companies, the massive scale of our labor marketplace, and the 1000s of Partners who use Instawork for skilled labor every day.

The Hustle

This is a high-octane, 60+ hour-per-week role for someone who lives to close deals. You will work directly with our CEO and Head of Robotics to hunt and secure partnerships with companies that control diverse labor forces. Your goal: integrate Instawork’s operations and tech to turn their manual labor into the high-quality training datasets needed to fuel the next generation of robotics.

Role

• Execute the Playbook: Identify and sign global partners who need Instawork’s tech to capture and structure robotic training data. Build outbound pipeline via cold calls, email, and LinkedIn. This is a full-cycle partner acquisition role, from first outreach, to collecting quality data.
• Own the Road: Expect extensive global travel to partner sites.

Who you Are: You have a "founder" mindset and Bias for Action. You don't wait for permission; you deliver results. You thrive in a high-pressure environment where the pace is fast and the expectations are higher. You are comfortable with ambiguity and fast iteration. 2+ years in Partnerships, Business Development, SDR, or inside sales, with experience owning deals beyond initial qualification.

Instawork’s on-demand labor marketplace is uniquely valuable for robotics and physical AI. We’re working with leading frontier labs to create the highest-quality, highest-diversity datasets for training robotics foundation models. Instawork Robotics is the human advantage in the robotics revolution. 

We are seeking a highly skilled, part-time Field Engineering Technician to manage the maintenance, calibration, and local deployment of a fleet of 600 custom wearable camera rigs. Unlike standard IT support, this role sits at the intersection of precision electronics, mechanical assembly, and field operations. You will be the primary guardian of our hardware integrity, ensuring that high-stakes egocentric data collection continues without interruption across various deployment sites.

About IRL

Researchers at UC Berkeley have identified a “100,000-year data gap” - the gulf between what trained AI language models and what physical robots actually have to learn from. Closing that gap is the defining infrastructure challenge of the physical AI era. IRL is Instawork’s answer to it. We deploy skilled workers into real commercial and residential environments - kitchens, warehouses, hotel floors, homes - to capture the high-fidelity task data that the world’s leading Robotics labs use to train their foundation models. Read more here.

Who You Are:

A problem-solver who enjoys troubleshooting, working with physical devices, and finding creative solutions to problems quickly. 

• Education: ITI or Diploma in Electronics, Mechatronics, or Electrical Engineering.
• Experience: proven background in repairing "small-form-factor" electronics (e.g., smartphones, drones, or action cameras)
• Technical Skills: high dexterity with precision hand tools, multimeters, and soldering stations
• Safety: deep understanding of ESD (Electrostatic Discharge) safety protocols
• Software: comfortable navigating Linux/Windows-based diagnostic shells and firmware update tools.
• Mobility must possess a valid two-wheeler license and a personal vehicle for local travel.
• A hard worker who is comfortable working in new and different field environments, and adapting to new hardware and systems. 
• An operator who is experienced with the basics of hardware maintenance and support.
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Nice-to-haves:

Experience supporting robotics, sensors, wearables, cameras, or prototype hardware systems. Experience with firmware flashing, Linux, Android, embedded devices, or basic networking. Experience at an early-stage or mid-stage startup. Basic electrical, mechanical, or hardware assembly experience. Comfort building with AI tools like Cursor and Claude Code

What You’ll Do:

• Field Hardware Support. Maintain and troubleshoot deployed data collection systems, including cameras, sensors, batteries, storage media, cables, mounts, and wearable equipment.
• Device Configuration. Perform hardware setup, provisioning, firmware flashing, software updates, calibration, and readiness checks prior to deployment.
• Issue Resolution. Diagnose and resolve day-to-day technical issues in the field, document recurring failures, and escalate more complex problems to engineering teams.
• Repair & Refurbishment. Replace damaged or worn components, manage spare parts inventory, and prepare returned systems for rapid redeployment.
• Operator Enablement. Support field operators with fit adjustments, setup guidance, charging workflows, and best practices to ensure reliable data capture.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration. Coordinate with robotics leadership, data ops, QA, and engineering teams to continuously improve hardware reliability, usability, and field performance.

Instawork’s on-demand labor marketplace is uniquely valuable for robotics and physical AI. We’re working with leading frontier labs to create the highest-quality, highest-diversity datasets for training robotics foundation models. Instawork Robotics is the human advantage in the robotics revolution. 

The Instawork Robotics Tech Partnerships Lead will be responsible for all aspects of the relationship with our partners in the robotics space. 

Who You Are:

• A mid-career leader, with at least 5 years of professional experience in partnerships, product management, strategy and planning, or account management, excluding internships.
• A technologist, who is equally comfortable discussing best practices with robotics researchers and negotiating timelines and deliverables with purchasing executives.
• A robotics geek who enjoys tracking the latest in VLA research and robot learning approaches, and wants to advance the frontier of physical AI.
• An communicator who will translate client needs into plans and requirements for Instawork, and who will compellingly articulate to partners the services and selling points that make us unique.
• A problem-solver who enjoys building new-to-world systems, taking projects from zero to one, and applying creativity and grit to create value for our robotics partners.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience working in data ops or account management for large AI labs and/or robotics labs, or experience selling and servicing those labs
• Experience at an early-stage or mid-stage startup
• A strong network in the robotics industry
• Comfort building with AI tools like Cursor and Claude Code

What You'll Do:

• Partnership Account Management - Work closely with researchers and business leaders at leading robotics labs to understand and influence their robot training data strategies.
• Technology Strategy - Identify the unique direction of your partners’ research teams, and create and drive the technical requirements that tell IRL what we need to build to exceed their needs.
• Business development - Identify or create new opportunities for IRL to serve partners in robotics and physical AI by attending conferences, meet-ups, and other high-touch bus-dev opportunities. 
• Cross-Functional Collaboration - Coordinate with robotics leadership, data ops, QA, and other engineering teams to ensure exceptional data and service quality.

For CA Based Applicants:

• The base salary for this position is $160k - $240k
• This position is eligible for equity in the form of stock options
• This position is eligible for Instawork benefits, including:
• A variety of medical, dental, and vision plans with coverage beginning on the date of hire
• Flexible paid time off
• At least 8 paid company holidays annually
• Phone stipend
• Commuter stipend
• Supplemental pay on qualified leaves
• Employee health savings accounts (HSA) contribution
• Flexible spending plans
• 401K plan
• Perkspot - discount program through Lumity

#LI-Onsite

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to the development of next-generation products as a key team member driving impactful features from concept to production. You will collaborate across engineering, product, and design to translate business requirements into clear, scalable technical solutions, leveraging modern methodologies—including AI where it aligns with product scope—to deliver high-quality products and efficient software workflows.

You are someone who thrives in ambiguous problem spaces, has strong product instincts, and can translate customer needs into technical solutions that drive business outcomes.

Who You Are:

• 5+ years of professional experience with a focus on high-growth product environments
• Strong coding and architectural proficiency—you prioritize moving quickly down the right path to ship reliable code daily
• Full-stack proficiency—comfortable across backend services, APIs, and modern frontends (React, Angular, or Vue.js)
• Strong product instincts—you translate customer needs into technical solutions that drive business outcomes
• AI-First mindset—expertly using AI coding tools to accelerate delivery without compromising architectural integrity
• Agile execution—you understand the lifecycle of a feature from local branch to production monitoring

Nice to Have

• Fluency in our core stack (Django, Python, React, and React Native)—accelerates time-to-impact and onboarding
• Experience with advanced deployment patterns—leveraging feature flags, config-driven behavior, and progressive rollouts
• Exposure to LLM-based systems—includes prompt engineering, tool-call architectures, or agent workflows
• Domain experience in two-sided marketplace or recruitment platforms

What You'll Do:

• Product Delivery – Collaborate with PMs and designers to translate customer needs into technical solutions and shape product requirements.
• Write Quality Code – Ship code that follows engineering best practices (DRY, maintainable) and is production-safe after code review.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally – Work closely with Product, Design, and Data partners to ensure project alignment from concept through deployment.
• Drive Personal Growth – Proactively seek opportunities to sharpen skills through code reviews and architectural deep-dives with senior engineers.
• Own Features End-to-End – Drive feature development from coding through deployment, monitoring, QA, and iteration based on user feedback.
• Advocate for Best Practices – Champion engineering excellence and contribute to continuous improvement in developer tooling and experience.
• Contribute Technical Input – Provide input on team technical design, balancing short-term delivery with long-term scalable solutions.
• Practice Clear Communication – Communicate effectively through clear PR descriptions and proactively surfacing blockers before they become critical problems.

For CA-based Applicants:

• The base salary for this position is $170,000 - $200,000.
• This position is eligible for equity in the form of stock options
• This position is eligible for Instawork benefits, including:
• A variety of medical, dental, and vision plans with coverage beginning on the date of hire
• Flexible paid time off
• At least 8 paid company holidays annually
• Phone stipend
• Commuter stipend
• Supplemental pay on qualified leaves
• Employee health savings accounts (HSA) contribution
• Flexible spending plans
• 401K plan
• Perkspot - discount program through Lumity

A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location.  Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed above.

Location: San Francisco, CA

Reports to: CEO & Head of Robotics

The Mission

Instawork is building the data engine for the future of physical AI. We are looking for a Business Development Representative to bridge the gap between world-class robotics companies, the massive scale of our labor marketplace, and the 1000s of Partners who use Instawork for skilled labor every day.

The Hustle

This is a high-octane, 60+ hour-per-week role for someone who lives to close deals. You will work directly with our CEO and Head of Robotics to hunt and secure partnerships with companies that control diverse labor forces. Your goal: integrate Instawork’s operations and tech to turn their manual labor into the high-quality training datasets needed to fuel the next generation of robotics.

Role

• Execute the Playbook: Identify and sign global partners who need Instawork’s tech to capture and structure robotic training data. Build outbound pipeline via cold calls, email, and LinkedIn. This is a full-cycle partner acquisition role, from first outreach, to collecting quality data.
• Work with Leadership: Collaborate daily with the CEO and Head of Robotics to move quickly.
• Own the Road: Expect extensive global travel to partner sites.
• Who you Are: You have a "founder" mindset and Bias for Action. You don't wait for permission; you deliver results. You thrive in a high-pressure environment where the pace is fast and the expectations are higher. You are comfortable with ambiguity and fast iteration. 2+ years in Partnerships, BDR, SDR, or inside sales, with experience owning deals beyond initial qualification.

For CA Based Applicants:

• The base salary for this position is $100k - $130k
• This position is eligible for equity in the form of stock options
• This position is eligible for Instawork benefits, including:
• A variety of medical, dental, and vision plans with coverage beginning on the date of hire
• Flexible paid time off
• At least 8 paid company holidays annually
• Phone stipend
• Commuter stipend
• Supplemental pay on qualified leaves
• Employee health savings accounts (HSA) contribution
• Flexible spending plans
• 401K plan
• Perkspot - discount program through Lumity

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 grit to create value for our robotics partners.

Nice-to-haves:

• 5+ years experience designing or architecting production distributed systems
• Experience shipping production code at an early-stage or mid-stage startup
• Comfort and presence leading technical discussions with external partners and customers

What You’ll Do:

• Model Development - plan, architect, and build the data labeling and enrichment pipeline at the foundation of Instawork Robotics’ data offering.
• Pipeline Optimization - identify and implement continuous improvements to our data pipeline to improve efficiency, scalability, and quality.
• Dataset Quality - develop methodologies and analytics to measure the quality and performance of our dataset and ML models.
• Research Reviews - stay on top of academic research and industry best practices related to robotics learning and training.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration - Work closely with robotics leadership, data ops, QA, and other engineering teams to ensure alignment from concept to deployment.
• Mentorship & Influence - Guide mid and senior-level engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and architectural discussions, raising the technical bar across the organization.

For CA based applicants:

• The base salary for this position is $240,000 - $260,000
• This position is eligible for equity in the form of stock options
• This position is eligible for Instawork benefits, including: 
  • Variety of medical, dental, and vision plans with coverage beginning on the date of hire
  • Flexible paid time off
  • At least 8 paid company holidays annually
  • Home office stipend
  • Phone stipend
  • Commuter stipend
  • Supplemental pay on qualified leaves
  • Employee health savings accounts (HSA) contribution
  • Flexible spending plans
  • 401K plan
  • Perkspot - discount program through Lumity

A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed above.
#LI-Onsite #LI-CR2

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, and the Instawork Robotics Data Ops Analyst will be at the center of this cutting-edge data collection effort. 

Who You Are:

• An early career professional, with between 1 and 5 years of work experience.
• Analytical, with proficiency in spreadsheet-based data analysis and experience or a willingness to learn SQL and other data tools.
• A builder who is excited to use AI tools to create custom solutions for internal and external customers.
• A Problem-Solver who enjoys tackling challenges and is motivated to find efficient solutions. You're organized, detail-oriented, and not afraid to ask questions to get to the root of a problem.
• A fast learner who is eager to work on the frontiers of robotics.

Nice-to-haves:

• A Master’s degree in a business or technical field
• Experience with large-scale data collection operations
• Experience in robotics or physical AI
• Experience at an early-stage or mid-stage startup
• Comfort and presence working directly with external partners or customers

What You’ll Do:

• Analyze Feature Performance - Assist in monitoring and communicating the performance of our data collection efforts by tracking key metrics, analyzing user behavior, and summarizing insights for the team.
• Champion the User Experience - Be a voice for our users. You'll help gather, organize, and analyze user feedback from various channels to inform the product roadmap.
• Pro activation and coordination - Organize, train, and problem-solve on behalf of the Instawork Pros performing data collection activities
• Cross-Functional Collaboration - Work closely with robotics leadership, other members of the data ops team, QA, and engineering to ensure alignment from concept to deployment.

For CA Based Applicants:

• The base salary for this position is between $100K to $140K
• This position is eligible for equity in the form of stock options
• This position is eligible for Instawork benefits, including: 
• Variety of medical, dental, and vision plans with coverage beginning on the date of hire
• Flexible paid time off
• At least 8 paid company holidays annually
• Phone stipend
• Commuter stipend
• Supplemental pay on qualified leaves
• Employee health savings accounts (HSA) contribution
• Flexible spending plans
• 401K plan
• Perkspot - discount program through Lumity

#LI-Onsite #LI-CR2

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 Mobile Developer will own the custom, AI-enabled app we use for distributed robotics data collection.

Who You Are:

• An experienced mobile app developer, with at least 5 years of iOS and Android development experience, excluding internships.
• An iOS expert, with at least 2 years of native Swift programming experience.
• Scalability-focused, you’ve published apps used by a distributed, global user base.
• CX-obsessed, with a bias towards continuously improving the app experience based on user feedback and app analytics.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience with ARKit, XR apps, and/or data collection apps.
• Experience shipping production code at an early-stage or mid-stage startup
• Cross-platform development experience, ideally including Android and Unity

What You’ll Do:

• App Development - own the end-to-end development of the Instawork Pro Capture app, implementing features including new CV capabilities, internationalization, analytics, and integration with our data pipeline.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration - Work closely with robotics leadership, data ops, QA, and other engineering teams to ensure alignment from concept to deployment.

For CA Based Applicants:

• The base salary for this position is between $170K to $200K
• This position is eligible for equity in the form of stock options
• This position is eligible for Instawork benefits, including: 
• Variety of medical, dental, and vision plans with coverage beginning on the date of hire
• Flexible paid time off
• At least 8 paid company holidays annually
• Phone stipend
• Commuter stipend
• Supplemental pay on qualified leaves
• Employee health savings accounts (HSA) contribution
• Flexible spending plans
• 401K plan
• Perkspot - discount program through Lumity

#LI-Onsite #LI-CR2