Research Scientist, Fauna

What the role actually is

Fauna is hiring a research scientist to define how robot capabilities are measured, stress-tested, and improved. The listing focuses on evaluation frameworks, data collection protocols, task structures, and human-in-the-loop systems.

The role connects teleoperation, operator-facing interfaces, robot learning, and policy validation. It is less about a single model and more about the research machinery that decides whether a robot behavior is actually ready.

What you would work on

• Design evaluation frameworks for real-world robot tasks and behaviors
• Define data collection protocols that improve policy learning and validation
• Connect teleoperation workflows with scalable robot evaluation systems
• Build methods for measuring capability, generalization, and failure modes

What they are asking for

• Research experience in robotics, machine learning, experimental systems, or related areas
• Ability to analyze experimental and observational data sets
• Comfort applying scientific methods to product and business problems
• Systems thinking across software, data, operators, and robot behavior

Why this one is worth a look

Evaluation is becoming one of the hard product problems in embodied AI. This role is interesting because it treats measurement, operators, and interfaces as part of the robot learning loop, not as afterthoughts.