Applied Researcher - Deployment Intelligence & Continuous Learning

Dyna Robotics makes general-purpose robots powered by a proprietary embodied AI foundation model that generalizes and self-improves across varied environments with commercial-grade performance. Dyna's robots have been deployed at customers across multiple industries. Its frontier model has the top generalization and performance in the industry. Dyna Robotics has raised over $140M, backed by top investors including CRV, First Round Capital, Robostrategy, Salesforce Ventures, NVentures, Amazon, Samsung Next, and LG Technology Ventures. Our team brings together engineers and researchers from Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Cruise, Aurora, NVIDIA, along with academic roots at Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, UPenn, and beyond. We're positioned to redefine the landscape of robotic automation. 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. WHAT YOU'LL BRING - Bias to Ship: You're happiest closing the loop, landing a fix on the fleet and watching it hold up at a real customer site, rather than polishing a benchmark number or a paper. We want someone driven by shipped impact and genuine passion for the problem, not research for its own sake. - Educational Background: Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in CS, Robotics, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree level doesn't matter to us; what matters is genuine passion for the work and a track record of hands-on effort that shipped into a real system, not just a benchmark. - Applied ML Depth: Hands-on experience in at least two of: reinforcement learning, sensor-data modeling/anomaly detection, vision-language models, or continual/online learning. - Production Instincts: Experience building monitoring, evaluation, or data pipelines for a live ML system, comfortable with the ambiguity of real-world fleet data versus curated benchmarks. - Experimentation & Statistics: Comfortable designing and reading production experiments (A/B tests, canary rollouts, staged fleet deployments)…