LatentWorlds builds the data infrastructure layer for physical intelligence workflows. Our data platform helps robotics and autonomy teams capture, move, store, query and curate multimodal sensor data across cloud and on-premise environments. We connect this work to robot learning and world modeling, with a focus on reliable real-world deployment.
The role Build a robotics experimentation environment from the ground up, connecting hardware, control software, data capture and evaluation. Your priority is rigorous, end-to-end evaluation of learned manipulation policies on real robots, not curated demonstrations. You own technical readiness, safe execution and reproducibility; the Data Operations Lead owns collection scheduling, staffing and delivery. Together, you make experiments reliable enough to guide the next model iteration.
What you'll do Design and commission robotic workstations: robot hardware, end effectors, fixtures, sensing, compute, networking and serviceable layouts. Own software bring-up, drivers, control interfaces, calibration and sensor synchronisation; version hardware configurations alongside code. Integrate learned policies from observations to executed actions, including inference, action interfaces, latency budgets and execution monitoring. Build evaluation suites with held-out tasks, repeated trials and consistent resets; measure success, cycle time, interventions, recovery and failure modes. Establish operating limits, interlocks, emergency-stop procedures and staged validation with appropriate safety specialists before policy deployment. Automate logging and regression tests; link results to model, dataset and configuration versions, and hand maintainable procedures to operations. What you bring Typically 5+ years in hands-on robotics or equivalent depth, including setting up and maintaining real manipulation systems from hardware to software. Strong Python and C++ or comparable systems programming; experience with Linux, robot middleware such as ROS 2, controls and calibration. Practical experience deploying and evaluating learned manipulation policies; you can distinguish model limitations from sensing, control or integration failures. Evidence of building reproducible experiments, diagnosing hardware/software faults and leading technical work with a rigorous approach to robot safety. Nice to have Teleoperation, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, vision-language-action policies, automated reset design or simulation-to-real evaluation. You speak Italian.
Why join Shape an experimental system from its foundations and make real-world policy evaluation dependable. Close collaboration with research and platform engineering, competitive salary and equity.
How to apply Email careers@latentworlds.ai with the role title, your CV, robot demos or code, and a manipulation setup or evaluation system you personally built.
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