Scale's Physical AI business unit is dedicated to solving the data bottleneck across Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, and Computer Vision. This position will be a key contributor in conducting applied research in Physical AI and developing ML pipelines for processing, training, and fine-tuning on data collected by Scale, with a specific focus on optimizing algorithms and pipelines to run efficiently on GPUs in the cloud. In this role, you will have the opportunity to advance research, shape Scale’s offerings, and expand the frontier of data and model evaluation for Physical AI.

The Role 

As an ML Systems Engineer on the Physical AI team, you will design and build platforms for scalable, reliable, and efficient serving of foundation models specifically tailored for physical agents. Our platform powers cutting-edge research and production systems, supporting both internal research discovery and external customer use cases for autonomous vehicles and robotics.

The ideal candidate combines strong ML fundamentals with deep expertise in backend system design. You’ll work in a highly collaborative environment, bridging the gap between Physical AI research and production engineering to accelerate innovation across the company.

You Will: 

• Build & Scale: Maintain fault-tolerant, high-performance systems for serving robotics-related models and foundation models at scale, ensuring low latency for real-time applications.
• Platform Development: Build an internal platform to empower model capability discovery, enabling faster iteration cycles for research teams working on robotics.
• Collaborate: Work closely with Robotics researchers and Computer Vision engineers to integrate and optimize models for production and research environments.
• Design Excellence: Conduct architecture and design reviews to uphold best practices in system scalability, reliability, and security.
• Observability: Develop monitoring and observability solutions to ensure system health and real-time performance tracking of model inference.
• Lead: Own projects end-to-end, from requirements gathering to implementation, in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.

Ideally, You’d Have: 

• Experience: 4+ years of experience building large-scale, high-performance backend systems, with deep experience in machine learning infrastructure.
• Algorithm Optimization: Deep experience optimizing computer vision and other machine learning algorithms for cloud environments, including GPU-level algorithm optimizations (e.g., CUDA, kernel tuning).
• Programming: Strong skills in one or more systems-level languages (e.g., Python, Go, Rust, C++).
• Systems Fundamentals: Deep understanding of serving and routing fundamentals (e.g., rate limiting, load balancing, compute budgets, concurrency) for data-intensive applications.
• Infrastructure: Experience with containers (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and cloud providers (AWS/GCP).
• IaC: Familiarity with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform).
• Mindset: Proven ability to solve complex problems and work independently in fast-moving environments.

Nice to Haves: 

• Exposure to Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models.
• Knowledge of high-performance video processing (e.g., FFmpeg, NVDEC/NVENC) or 3D data handling (point clouds).
• Familiarity with robotics middleware (e.g., ROS/ROS2) or AV data formats.

The next frontier for AI is the physical world. At Scale, we're pioneering this shift, moving artificial intelligence from digital spaces into robotics and autonomous systems. Our Robotics team is building the data platform that will power the future of Physical AI. We are looking for a pivotal Solutions Engineer, to be based in our San Francisco Corporate Headquarters.

As a Solutions Engineer, you'll be a trusted technical partner, building deep relationships with some of the world's most innovative model builders and renowned robotics companies.  You will partner closely with Product, Sales and Machine Learning Engineers to guide prospective customers through the pre-sales process, delivering customized demos and pilots that secure the "technical win." You'll define customer technical requirements, develop actionable Statements of Work, and collaborate with the delivery team on initial implementation. Your relentless curiosity about customer needs, combined with your expert knowledge of Scale's products will allow you to design creative and impactful solutions.

This is a critical role that directly influences multi-million dollar contracts and initiatives. You'll travel globally to conduct on-site technical workshops and scope new projects, while also leading demos and pilots for new prospects. You'll be part of a tight-knit, specialized team, influencing a rapidly growing business that is expanding into new product areas.

In this role, you will:

• Partner with Scale Account Executives and Engagement Managers to deliver new customer pilots and grow technical relationships with existing clients.
• Work with Product Engineering and Product Management to influence our product roadmap based on your frontline insights.
• Become a domain expert in next-generation Robotics and physical AI (e.g. VLMs, VLAs, World Models)
• Be accountable for the technical customer experience and commercial growth, expanding relationships and use cases with existing customers.
• Collaborate with highly technical engineers at our customer sites to ensure satisfaction with our data, software platforms, and workflows.
• Design and develop playbooks, demos, and other tools to ensure efficient and successful pilots and customer expansions.
• Pioneer the development of a global Robotics Data Marketplace, actively seeking out and engaging with key international partners to build a comprehensive data ecosystem.
• Evangelize Scale by interacting with customers at major industry events and academic conferences.

You have:

• A strong engineering background, preferably in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Mathematics, or other Engineering fields.
• 3+ years of experience developing with Python, C++, Java, and/or other scripting languages.
• Hands-on experience in Robotics and Physical AI
• Exceptional project management and interpersonal skills, strong attention to detail, and a strong sense of ownership.
• The presentation skills and technical credibility to speak confidently with a variety of stakeholders, from executives to front-line engineers.
• A high level of comfort communicating effectively across internal and external organizations.
• Regular travel within the Bay Area.
• International travel approximately once every two months.
• Intellectual curiosity, empathy, and the ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy.

Bonus points if you have:

• Prior sales, solutions engineering,  or partnership experience with a track record of successfully achieving quota.
• Ideally would have experience selling complex technical solutions to enterprises with deal sizes of $500K to $5M+.

Software Engineer

Argentina; Uruguay

Software Engineer - Robotics & Autonomous Systems

Scale's Robotics business unit is dedicated to solving the data bottleneck in Physical AI across Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, and Computer Vision. In this role, you'll be a key contributor building production systems for robotics data collection, model training pipelines, and evaluation infrastructure. You'll have the opportunity to own critical parts of our robotics platform, work directly with cutting-edge robotics and AV customers, and shape the future of embodied AI systems.

You Will:

• Own and architect large-scale data processing pipelines for robotics and autonomous vehicle datasets
• Build ML training and fine-tuning pipelines using Scale's robotics data
• Work across backend (Python, Node.js, C++), and frontend (React, TypeScript) stacks to build end-to-end solutions
• Develop tools and real-time systems for robotics data collection, teleoperation, model evaluation, data curation, and data annotation
• Interact directly with robotics and AV stakeholders to understand their technical needs and drive product development
• Design comprehensive monitoring and evaluation frameworks for robotics models and data quality
• Solving complex, late-stage industry challenges in concurrent and real-time robotic systems, with strict attention to timing constraints and data integrity. This often involves deep investigation, reviewing academic papers, and direct collaboration with robotics vendors
• Collaborate with ML engineers and researchers to bring robotics research into production
• Deliver features at high velocity while maintaining system reliability and performance

Ideally, You Have:

• At least 6 years of high-proficiency software engineering experience, with a strong background in complex systems and the ability to independently research, analyze, and unblock hard technical problems.
• Strong programming skills in Python and TypeScript/Node.js for production systems
• Experience with React and modern frontend development for 3D interfaces
• Concurrent and real-time systems, with special attention to timing constraints
• Understanding of distributed systems, workflow orchestration, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Temporal, Kubernetes, Docker)
• Experience with databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL) and data processing at large scale
• Track record of working with cross-functional teams including ML engineers, researchers, and customers
• Strong communication skills and ability to operate with high autonomy

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with C++
• Experience with robotics hardware platforms (robotic arms, mobile robots, perception systems) with a focus on time synchronization
• Background in computer vision, SLAM, motion planning, or imitation learning
• Familiarity with autonomous vehicle data, lidar technologies, or 3D data processing
• Experience with ML model deployment and serving frameworks
• Knowledge of teleoperation systems (ALOHA, UMI, hand tracking) or VR interfaces
• Experience with workflow orchestration systems (Temporal, Airflow)
• Published research or open-source contributions in robotics or autonomous systems

Scale's Robotics business unit is dedicated to solving the data bottleneck in Physical AI across Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, and Computer Vision. In this role, you'll be a key contributor building production systems for robotics data collection, model training pipelines, and evaluation infrastructure. You'll have the opportunity to own critical parts of our robotics platform, work directly with cutting-edge robotics and AV customers, and shape the future of embodied AI systems.

You Will:

• Own and architect large-scale data processing pipelines for robotics and autonomous vehicle datasets
• Build ML training and fine-tuning pipelines using Scale's robotics data
• Work across backend (Python, Node.js, C++), and frontend (React, TypeScript) stacks to build end-to-end solutions
• Develop tools and real-time systems for robotics data collection, teleoperation, model evaluation, data curation, and data annotation
• Interact directly with robotics and AV stakeholders to understand their technical needs and drive product development
• Design comprehensive monitoring and evaluation frameworks for robotics models and data quality
• Solving complex, late-stage industry challenges in concurrent and real-time robotic systems, with strict attention to timing constraints and data integrity. This often involves deep investigation, reviewing academic papers, and direct collaboration with robotics vendors
• Collaborate with ML engineers and researchers to bring robotics research into production
• Deliver features at high velocity while maintaining system reliability and performance

Ideally, You Have:

• 3+ years of high-proficiency software engineering experience, with a strong background in complex systems and the ability to independently research, analyze, and unblock hard technical problems.
• Strong programming skills in Python and TypeScript/Node.js for production systems
• Experience with React and modern frontend development for 3D interfaces
• Concurrent and real-time systems, with special attention to timing constraints
• Understanding of distributed systems, workflow orchestration, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Temporal, Kubernetes, Docker)
• Experience with databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL) and data processing at large scale
• Track record of working with cross-functional teams including ML engineers, researchers, and customers
• Strong communication skills and ability to operate with high autonomy

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with C++
• Experience with robotics hardware platforms (robotic arms, mobile robots, perception systems) with a focus on time synchronization
• Background in computer vision, SLAM, motion planning, or imitation learning
• Familiarity with autonomous vehicle data, lidar technologies, or 3D data processing
• Experience with ML model deployment and serving frameworks
• Knowledge of teleoperation systems (ALOHA, UMI, hand tracking) or VR interfaces
• Experience with workflow orchestration systems (Temporal, Airflow)
• Published research or open-source contributions in robotics or autonomous systems

Scale’s Robotics business is rapidly expanding, supporting customers building physical AI. This position will be a key contributor in working to build out Scale’s data factory in Mexico and in supporting robotics data collection. This is a first of its kind role at Scale and you will have the opportunity to advance Scale’s robotics offerings.

You will:

• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to bring up new robots and productionize the maintenance of robots and collection hardware.
• Play a critical role in supporting the day-to-day operations of the factory by bringing up and maintaining robots and collection hardware.
• Provide technical support for data collection operations.
• Manage physical inventory, maintain equipment, and coordinate logistics.
• Become a subject matter expert on all capabilities of the robotics platforms deployed in the factory.
• Develop technical domain expertise in areas of 2D and 3D imaging and annotation, multi-sensor fusion and calibration, GPS/INS navigation systems, computer vision, and other autonomy-adjacent concepts.
  
  

You have:

• Academic (Bachelors/Licenciatura) or industry experience - Engineering background - preferably in Computer Science, Mathematics, or other Engineering fields.
• 2+ years of experience developing with Python, C++, Java and/or other scripting languages.
• 1-3 years of experience in hardware labs or a manufacturing environment.
• Experience managing risk and operating robots safely.
• Strong project management and interpersonal skills, high attention to detail, and a strong sense of ownership.
• High level of comfort communicating effectively across internal and external organizations.

Nice to have:

• Hands-on experience in Robotics, AI, and/or Computer Vision.
• Intellectual curiosity, empathy, and ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy.
• Experience building and/or maintaining lab networks and data pipelines.
• Experience running large-scale data collection and controlled experiments
• Experience building out facilities.
• Experience in logistics.

Scale AI is the data engine for the entire AI industry. Our mission is to accelerate the development of AI applications by providing organizations with the high-quality data they need. The Physical AI team at Scale is focused on the next frontier: building general AI that can reason and act in the physical world. By leveraging Scale’s massive data infrastructure, we are helping frontier labs build Foundation Models for Physical AI that will redefine the future of automation.

Role Overview

As the Technical Lead Manager (TLM) for the Physical AI team of Scale, you will bridge the gap between cutting-edge Machine Learning research and physical robot deployment. You will lead a high-performing team of Research Engineers while remaining a hands-on technical contributor (~60% of your time).

Your primary focus will be the development and evaluation of Large-Scale Foundation Models (e.g VLAs, World models) that allow robots and AVs to generalize across diverse tasks, environments, and morphologies.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Research

• Model Scaling: Direct research into scaling laws for Physical AI, determining how to best utilize massive datasets for pre-training and fine-tuning generalist policies.
• VLA and World model development: Develop novel methods for developing and evaluating models, including new Physical AI industry benchmarks
• Hands-on Modeling: Actively write code to implement, train and test SOTA architectures. Conduct research on Physical AI data collection, cross-embodiment training, and policy fine-tuning.  
• Data Strategy: Collaborate with internal labeling teams to design "robotic-native" data pipelines, including the use of VLMs for automated trajectory annotation and data synthesis.
• Collaborate closely with customers to drive the industry forward in using Scale data

Team Management & Execution

• Mentorship: Lead and grow a team of 4-6 elite Physical AI  researchers, fostering a culture of high-velocity experimentation and rigorous evaluation.
• Paper-to-Product: Translate the latest research from NeurIPS, ICRA, and CVPR into production-ready features for Scale’s Physical AI partners.
• Cross-functional Alignment: Work with cross-functional teams (e.g Product and Operations) to bring our research breakthroughs into production. 

Required Qualifications

AI/ML Excellence

• Deep Learning Mastery: Expert-level proficiency in PyTorch, with deep knowledge of Transformer architectures, Attention mechanisms, and Self-Supervised Learning.
• VLM/VLA Experience: Proven track record of working with Vision-Language Models (e.g., CLIP, PaLM-E) and adapting them for spatial reasoning or embodied tasks.
• Generative AI: Experience with Diffusion Models for sequence generation or Generative World Models for predictive modeling.

Physical AI & Software Background

• Embodied AI: Strong understanding of Physical AI stack, including imitation learning, reinforcement learning (RL), and multi-modal sensor fusion.
• Infrastructure: Experience with large-scale distributed training across GPU clusters and high-performance data loading.
• Leadership: 1+ years of experience leading technical teams or projects in a research-intensive environment.

Nice to Haves:

• Publication Record: First-author publications at top-tier AI/ML conferences (NeurIPS, CVPR, ICRA, CoRL).
• Hardware Generalization: Experience building models that work across different robot types (arms, mobile bases, humanoids).
• Sim-to-Real: Experience with high-fidelity simulators (e.g., Isaac Gym, MuJoCo) and the nuances of physical domain adaptation.

As Scale's product portfolio and customer base expand, we are seeking skilled Site Reliability Engineers to manage and maintain our physical infrastructure, including robot stations, servers, computers, and network installations. You will play a crucial role in ensuring our on-site technical facilities operate smoothly while coordinating resource usage and providing hands-on support to remote engineering teams.

These engineers will gain a deep understanding of our physical infrastructure and technical facilities, enabling them to effectively install, configure, and maintain critical systems when needed. A critical aspect of this role will be coordinating access to shared technical resources and serving as the on-site point of contact for remote engineers who need physical changes performed, transforming currently manual coordination processes into a more streamlined and efficient workflow.

You will:

•  Install, configure, and maintain robot stations and related technical equipment on-site.
• Manage and maintain server infrastructure, workstations, and computing equipment in our facilities.
• Oversee network installations, including routers and cabling infrastructure.
• Coordinate access to technical facilities, maintaining schedules and ensuring orderly usage of shared resources.
• Establish and enforce safety protocols and usage guidelines for technical facilities.
• Provide hands-on support to remote engineers, performing physical changes and configurations as requested.
• Troubleshoot hardware, network, and connectivity issues, ensuring minimal disruption to operations.
• Document infrastructure configurations, changes, and maintenance procedures to ensure maintainability and knowledge transfer.
• Proactively identify maintenance needs and capacity constraints to prevent issues before they arise.
• Drive standardization and foster collaboration across different teams to achieve efficient facility usage.

Ideally you'd have:

• 5+ years of experience as an IT Technician, Field Engineer, Facilities Technician, or similar hands-on technical role.
• Proven track record of installing and maintaining server hardware and workstations.
• Experience configuring and troubleshooting network infrastructure and physical installation work.
• Experience coordinating shared resources or facilities, managing schedules and access.
• Familiarity with Linux, Windows and MacOS.
• Knowledge of Python/C++, scripting, and command line (cmd/bash) operations.
• Basic understanding of electrical systems for robot stations and equipment.
• Comfort with rapidly changing, fast-paced environments and a passion for finding solutions to complex physical infrastructure problems.
• Basic understanding of safety protocols and an eagerness to integrate them into facility operations.
• A hunger for learning new technologies, particularly in the realm of robotics and automated systems.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, collaboration, and communication skills.

Nice to haves:

• Experience with robotics systems or automated equipment.
• Exposure to industrial charging systems or battery management systems.
• Prior experience in facility management or lab coordination.