Applied Researcher

Dyna Robotics builds general-purpose robots powered by a proprietary embodied AI foundation model with top-in-industry generalization and real-world performance. Already deployed with customers across multiple industries, our robots do commercial-grade work in the physical world. Our team comes from Google DeepMind, Meta, and Cruise, and we're backed by CRV, First Round, and other leading investors.

The Role

Our models don't stop learning at deployment. A growing fleet of robots is generating real production data every day, and the gap between "works in the lab" and "works at a new customer site, forever" is a research problem, not just an ops one. As an Applied Researcher on the AI Research team, you'll own that gap: mining fleet sensor and video data for failure modes, building the monitoring that catches problems before customers do, and turning deployment data into continuous, measurable model improvement. This is a hands-on, ship-it role. We care far more about whether you can land a real improvement on the fleet than about producing research for its own sake.

What You'll Do

• Continuous Learning Loops: Design and ship pipelines that turn real deployment data (successes, failures, teleop corrections) into targeted fine-tuning and online policy improvement, closing the loop from field to model without a full retrain cycle every time.

• Fleet Data Analytics: Mine high-frequency multimodal sensor and video data across tens of thousands of fleet episodes to catch failure modes, drift, and regressions before they become customer-visible.

• RL for Deployment: Apply reinforcement learning (offline RL, RL fine-tuning, reward modeling from human and teleop feedback) to improve policies directly from real-world deployment data, not just simulation.

• Automated Fleet Monitoring: Build automated monitoring that flags anomalies, near-failures, and out-of-distribution scenes across the fleet in real time, and that decides what needs a human versus what the system can self-correct.

• Cross-Scene Generalization: Characterize and close generalization gaps as robots move to new sites, lighting, layouts, and objects; build the evaluation harnesses and data-selection strategies that make day-one performance at a new customer site predictable.

• End-to-End Ownership: Partner with Research, Data, and Deployment teams to turn a finding into a shipped improvement, from a data-analysis notebook to a production monitoring dashboard to a deployed model update.